Scott F. Hall

Scott F. Hall (born 1963, California, USA) is an intermedia artist working predominantly in the medium of sound for exhibition in the visual art context. He explores singly and intermixes: sound art, music, instrument design, sculpture, and still images within a wide-ranging creative paradigm. His work is shown in contemporary international galleries, museums, festivals, and alternative venues. Hall has invented numerous original sonic instruments such as the optivideotone, electric bass harmonitar, and arpegguitar.  To date, Hall has created several unique sound practices which usually work within the harmonious confines of the twelve-tone musical scale: scultura sana (also known as sonus animatio), organum novum, and  power ambient pealing. Currently, Hall is developing a new microtonal sound practice of indefinite time signature which merges organum novum and power ambient pealing to create a form which is free from the shackles of tuning and time.

The artist uses sound as a sculptural material, a temporal entity, and as a substance which infers a specific sense of spatial location and moody atmosphere. Often, he gradually builds up rich layers of precise harmony, melody, and rhythm to create intricate pieces which are vividly pictorial in their impact on the ear and the mind of the listener.  In sum, the sound art of Scott F. Hall has perhaps been best described as a soundtrack for a film seen only in the mind.

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Scott F. Hall’s sound art is exhibited at the Jyväskylä Art Museum exhibition Text | Sound | Technology | Information: Sound – March 8-13, 2011