Analog Minute – Folds and Echoes is an immersive experience where two adjacent real-time video works interact and unfold within a multichannel quadraphonic soundscape. Alongside, an autonomous percussionist continuously senses the space and movement, awaiting the perfect moment to perform.

In the digital paradigm, time is often reduced to exact, calculable units—frames per second, beats per minute, buffer sizes—where each moment is rendered as a discrete point in a sequence. This structure, while efficient, eliminates the micro-variations, fluid transitions, and indeterminacies that define natural time perception. Analog Minute – Folds and Echoes rejects this rigidity, instead embracing time’s elasticity, its subtle fluctuations, and its potential for drift.

Like analog synthesis, where voltage shifts create organic imperfections, Hall’s work reintroduces these imperfections not as errors but as essential elements of lived temporality, creating a sonic and visual environment where time is stretched, layered, or diffused rather than counted.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Tom Hall is an Australian-born electronic audio-visual artist residing in Los Angeles, California. Hall works with a deep fascination with the interpolation of time, the exploration of peripheral environments, phenomenology, and the non-linearity of everyday life. Drawing from diverse approaches, he recontextualizes these concepts to create soundscapes and visual imagery that merge in hybrid audio-visual environments, offering unique translations of temporality. His artistic expression encompasses found and computer-programmed sound synthesis, reactive visual synthesis, and physical installations, performing and presenting to audiences worldwide.

Hall works full-time at Cycling ’74, the creators of Max/MSP, Jitter, RNBO and Max for Live, where he contributes to product development and educational initiatives. In 2006, Hall founded the first Australian Ableton Live User Group and became an alpha tester for Ableton in 2007. He created the first ever Max for Live educational series for Cycling ’74, which has garnered over three million views. Since 2019, he has been a founding member of the Space Song Foundation, collaborating on the Tree of Life project with NASA/JPL scientists and artists. In academia, Hall is a professor at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, specializing in Performance Technology, Advanced Audio Synthesis and Computer Music.

Tom Hall: Analog Minute – Folds and Echoes is made possible in part with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional in-kind support provided by Arup.