Dr Tom Hall

Tom Hall

BA, MA, DPhil

Senior Lecturer, Creative Music Technology
Pathway Leader, BA Creative Music Technology

Room: Hel 244

Email: tom.hall@anglia.ac.uk

Telephone: 0845 196 2065
International: +44 1223 363271 ext 2065


Personal website: www.ludions.com


Tom Hall is active as a composer and performer of electro-acoustic music, with an interest in algorithmic, collaborative and semi-improvisatory processes. He is also a practitioner of the open-source real-time audio synthesis software SuperCollider, using it in both his research and teaching. As a laptop performer, Tom is a member with Sam Hayden of the laptop ensemble, butterflyCut and of the electric ensemble [rout].

With a background in classical music composition and analysis, Tom's research interests in these areas include relations between elements and representations of musical text, including the application of pitch-class and post-tonal theory. Related research includes writings on the music of Morton Feldman and Graham Hair. Other research and teaching interests include multi-channel and binaural sound art, radiophonic work and Hörspiel involving site/geographical and temporal specificity.

Tom's music has been performed throughout the United Kingdom, mainland Europe and Australia. He is a graduate of the University of Sussex (DPhil), where he studied composition with Martin Butler, and La Trobe University (MA), Melbourne, where he studied with Keith Humble and John McCaughey.


Books / Journal Articles

Rohrhuber, J., Hall, T. and de Campo, A. (in press). 'Dialects, Constraints and Systems within Systems'. In Collins, N., Cottle, D. M. and Wilson, S., (eds). The SuperCollider Book. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

Hall, T. (2007). 'Vague relations?: bar groupings and notational image in the late music of Morton Feldman'. Current Issues in Music, Canberra, forthcoming.

Hall, T. (1998) 'Graham Hair' in The Oxford Companion to Australian Music. Melbourne: Oxford University Press

Hall, T. (1997) 'Approaches to the Diatonic Collection in Graham Hair's Seven Fleeting Glimpses', Journal of Australasian Music Studies, Vol. 2.

Conference Papers

Hall, T. (2009). 'Time-points and pitch clocks: SuperCollider tools for composition and analysis'. SuperCollider Symposium, Wesleyan University, 2009-04-10.

Hall, T. (2007). 'A priority-based minimalist scheduling environment'. SuperCollider Symposium, The Hague, September 17-22, 2007

Hall, T. and Rorhruber, J. (2007). 'Musique Axiomatique'. LOSS Livecode Festival, 20th - 22nd July 2007, Sheffield UK

Hall, T. (2003). 'Vague relations?: bar groupings and notational image in the late music of Morton Feldman'. The Third Biennial International Conference on Twentieth Century Music, Nottingham, 26-29 June 2003.

Selected Composition and Performance

Hall, T., (2009). until unbidden go (for violin and live multi-channel electronics). Performed by Mifune Tsuji, violin. Commissioned by and part of the Beckett and Music Symposium, University of Sussex, 2009-02-27.

Hall, T., et. al. (2008) Silent Histories. Performed by the composers. Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, 2008-05-11.

Hall, T., (2008) Music for 'The Bunker Project phase II: prototype exercise I'. A collaboration with metis arts and Zoë Svendsen. Part of the Theatre Materials/Material Theatres conference, Centre of Excellence for Training in Theatre, The Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, 2008-04-14.

Hall, T., and Caldwell, L. (2007). 'Transmission of Exercise Communications Within the Department'. Installation for The Bunker Project. A collaboration with metis arts and Zoë Svendsen. The Studio at The Junction, Cambridge, 2007-09-28.

Hall, T. (2007). Skeletal Keys, for wavefield synthesis playback. SuperCollider Symposium, The Hague, ?2007-09-19.

Hall, T. (2007). Holorime, for wavefield synthesis playback. SuperCollider Symposium, The Hague, 2007-09-19.

Hall, T., and Hayden, S. (2007). Frame-breaking. First performed by butterflyCut, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Bates Mill, 2007-11-16.

Hall, T., and Thorne, L. (2007). 'Night Drive' and 'I Have Been a Soldier Too', in Where Night Birds Call [Compact Disc]. Melbourne: Vitamin Records, 2007.

Hall, T. et al. (2006). Hearing Voices / New Media Pocket Opera. First performed ISCM World New Music days, Forum Neues Musicktheater, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Germany, 2006-07-28.

Hall, T. et al. (2006). Drawing Differently. First performed by Rhodri Davies, Tom Hall, Claude Heath and Anton Lukoszevieze, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge. 2006-09-02.

Hall, T., and Hayden, S. (2006). aCTRS. First performed by ensemble [rout], Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, 2006-11-28.

Hall, T., and Hayden, S. (2006). butterflyCut. Numerous performances by butterflyCut include Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Livingstone's, Huddersfield 2006-11-19.

Hall, T., and Drape, R. (2005). As Far East as Bemm River. Numerous performances by ensemble [rout] include Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Livingstone's, Huddersfield 2006-11-19.



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