Tom Hall is a Tasmanian-Australian audio-visual artist based in Los Angeles, whose practice recontextualizes the non-linearity of time and peripheral environments through hybrid synthesis. His recent output exemplifies this “DSP-driven continuum,” notably with the 2025 album Trip Computer (Sonoptik). Described by critics as a “high-resolution journey exploring memory and transmission,” the record sculpts fractured patterns and precise sonic geometries into a “razor-sharp sound world.”
This return to recorded work is documented further in Boards 22_25, a massive nineteen-piece archive of live performances spanning Tokyo to Mexico City. These recordings capture Hall’s post-pandemic return to the stage, showcasing a command of modular systems where “fractured rhythm and sculpted abstraction coalesce” into relentlessly evolving sound architectures.
Supporting his art practice is a two-decade career in music technology. A Professor at USC’s Thornton School of Music and long-time employee for Cycling ’74, Hall has led R&D for the Arturia Microfreak and Beatstep Pro, and designed custom performance systems for artists like Nine Inch Nails, Will.I.Am, and Pantha du Prince. He is also a founding member of the Space Song Foundation, an interstellar art project with NASA/JPL.