Composition and Performance - Publications - Conference Papers and Invited Talks

Composition and Performance

Hall, T., 2012. George Brecht Realisations, iconic fluxscore miniatures, now even further miniaturised, including 'Motor Vehicle Sundown (Event)' interpreted for toy radio-controlled cars. Directed by Tom Hall and performed by Julio d'Escriván, Kevin Flanagan, Tom Hall, Richard Hoadley, Michelle Lewis-King, Paul Rhys and David Ryan. Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Part of the 'Future Fluxus' Visualise event. 2012-01-17.

Hall, T., 2011. Chip Interpretations. Performance by Till Bovermann and Tom Hall, with Guest lecture by Till Bovermann (Media Lab Helsinki), inaugural researcher in residence at the Digital Performance Laboratory, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. 2011-12-08.

Hall, T., 2011. Composition the map has been barely marked, for women's voices (S, S, M-S, M-S) and fixed electronics. Performance by Scottish Voices, Glasgow University Chapel, concert part of Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology 2011. 2011-08-30

Hall, T., et al., 2011. Triggered: a dance-music-digital performance that builds on the Cage-Cunningham legacy of interaction between music, dance and technology. Composers: Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Tom Hall and Richard Hoadley. Choreographer: Jane Turner. Dancers: David Ogle, Ann Pidcock. Special guest performers: Sam Hayden and Jonathan Impett. Kings Place, London. 2011-06-13.

Hall, T., 2010. Aural Comprehension in Music 1963-1982 Revisited (2010), a multi-channel sound installation as part of a three day residency in the Experimental Sound Laboratory of the Institute For Music And Media (IMM), Robert Schumann School of Music and Media in Düsseldorf, Germany. 2010-11-18.

Hall, T., 2010. Composition slow water code. Performance in John Cage's Musicircus at Kettle's Yard, as part of the John Cage Every Day is a Good Day exhibition. With Richard Hoadley. Slowcoding with SuperCollider using laptop, soundcard, single genelec 8020 on the floor under a bench, pointing upwards (mimesis: the sound of the adjacent humidifier, set at 56 rh). 2010-11-10.

Hall, T., 2010. Composition Under the Yoke (2010), for flute, trombone, guitar, percussion, narrator and laptop. With Katy Price (text). Performed by members of Ensemble United Berlin and the composers as part of the SuperCollider Symposium 2010, Berlin. Kleiner Wasserspeicher, Diedenhofer Straße, 10405 Berlin. 2010-06-21

Hall, T., et al., 2010. Triggered: evening performance around physical computing and dance, with Richard Hoadley, Cheryl Frances-Hoad along with choreographers Jane Turner and dancers. Part of New Materialisms and Digital Culture, An International Symposium on Contemporary Arts, Media and Cultural Theory. Anglia Ruskin University. 2010-06-21. Sponsored by the Cultures of the Digital Economy Research Institute (CoDE) and the Department of English, Communication, Film and Media.

Hall, T., et al, 2010. Frame-braking: musical and poetic approaches to technology from subversive, DIY and historical perspectives. With performances by Katy Price, Katharine Norman, Richard Hoadley, Sam Hayden and Tom Hall. Sunday 9 May 2010, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge. Includes Frame-breaking (2007, rev. 2010), for narrator, two electric guitars and laptops. 2010-05-09.

Hall, T., 2009. all the chords i should have played in the keys of c, for live computer playback and visuals. Part of the SuperCollider Symposium Kickoff Show. The Tank, New York. 2009-04-08

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 Zo_ 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., 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. 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.

Publications

Rohrhuber, J., Hall, T. and de Campo, A., 2011. '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 and Invited Talks

Hall, T., 2011. Conference paper, Unaligning Diatonicism: Listening and Composing around Post-atonal Tonality. Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology 2011, Glasgow and Glasgow Caledonian universities. 2011-09-02.

Hall, T., 2011. Conference paper, 'The seduction of graphism alone'?: the function of notation and technology in the Intersections of Morton Feldman. Seventh Biennial International Conference on Music Since 1900 and the international conference of the Society for Music Analysis. Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University. 2011-07-30.

Hall, T., 2010. Invited lecture, materials, process, context: computer-assisted composition with algorithms, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge. 2010-12-02.

Hall, T., 2010. Invited lecture on multi-channel sound installation Aural Comprehension in Music 1963-1982 Revisited (2010), as part of a three day residency in the Experimental Sound Laboratory of the Institute For Music And Media (IMM), Robert Schumann School of Music and Media in Düsseldorf, Germany. 2010-11-18.

Hall, T., 2010. Guest lecture, 'Triggered: Electronic Music Performance using Human Computer Interaction', Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge. 2010-11-04.

Hoadley, R., and Hall, T., 2010. 'Music Technology Now', a demonstration of some of the work of the Anglia Ruskin University Digital Performance Laboratory. With Richard Hoadley. Anglia Ruskin University. Part of the 2010 Cambridge Festival of Ideas. 2010-10-23.

Collins, N., and Hall, T., 2010. Invited teaching 'Introduction to SuperCollider' workshop. Part of the SuperCollider Symposium 2010, Universität der Künste, Institut für zeitbasierte Medien, Grunewaldstraße 2-5, 10823 Berlin. 2010-09-18, further workshop 2010-09-19.

Hall, T., 2010. Twelve-tone time: analytical and compositional applications of Babbitt's time-point series system using custom software. Music and Numbers International Conference, Canterbury Christ Church University. [research paper]. Expanded abstract published in conference publication ISBN 978-1-899253-76-0. 2010-05-15.

Hoadley, R., and Hall, T., 2010. Towards Embodied Control of Algorithmic Music. Music and Numbers International Conference, Canterbury Christ Church University. [research paper]. Expanded abstract published in conference publication ISBN 978-1-899253-76-0. 2010-05-14.

Hall, T. and Hoadley, R. , 2010. Invited performance and demonstrations at MIST (Museums, Interfaces, Spaces, Technologies) AHRC workshop, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge. 2010-03-22, continued 2010-03-23.

Hall, T., 2009. Guest lecture, 'Electronica and its Genres: Origins, Techniques and Aesthetics'. Music, Technology and Innovation guest lecture at De Montfort University. 2009-11-19.

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, 20-22 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.