A new solo saxophone track; an edited performance from my residency in Castlemaine, Australia.  Consists of saxophone, spring preparation, microphones for throat and horn, four speakers and a reflective room.

Carriage of the Voice

From the original score for Monsters, a stage show created by Emme Hoy (Writer), Matthew Lutton (Director) & Stephanie Lake (Choreographer).  
Presented by Malthouse Theatre, in collaboration with Stephanie Lake Theatre Company. 24 Nov-11 Dec 2022, Melbourne, Australia.

Instruments: Voice, Buchla Easel, Firecrackers, Roland RD-600, Korg Minilogue XD, Moog Mother 32, Weathered Pianola

She's Here

From the original score for Monsters, a stage show created by Emme Hoy (Writer), Matthew Lutton (Director) & Stephanie Lake (Choreographer).
Presented by Malthouse Theatre, in collaboration with Stephanie Lake Theatre Company. 24 Nov-11 Dec 2022, Melbourne, Australia.

Instrument: Weathered Pianola

The Cave Multiplies

Instruments: Weathered Pianola, Saxophone, Musical Saw, Voice

Eat The Light

Mass of Bodies

Instruments: Tuning Forks, Monochord, Moog Voyager, Saxophone, Moog System 55, A River

Something is Watching

Voice - Marjorie Butcher
Recorded by Myles Mumford at Rolling Stock Recording Rooms

A Dream

Instrument: saxophone, acoustic spring reverb

Unfurling Inside

Instruments: Firecrackers, Velcro, Arp Odyssey, Buchla Easel, Korg MS-20, Buchla 200 System, Weathered Pianola

Body Thrown Upwards

Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio 8.1 channel commission for Sonorous series, The Substation, 3 Nov 2019

"Hall’s set was a cinematic journey, lending itself to deep imagination. I saw forests, canyons and vast spaces when I closed my eyes. Her layered sound was hypnotic with most people zoning out to take pleasure in the sound. There was a dark, almost-gothic quality to her set, with the addition of bells drenched in reverb taking the journey towards a mystical end". Sabine Brix, Artshub.

Synthesisers recorded at MESS - Moog System 55, Moog Voyager, Moog Mother 32, Buchla System 200, Arp 2600.
Other instruments recorded - Tuning Forks, Monochord, Pump Organ, Fermentation Tanks, Blackboard, Bees and a River.

SONOROUS

Solo saxophone performance at  Les Ateliers Claus, Brussels 2014.  

Saxophone, echo tube, miniature microphones, throat microphones, volume  pedals

Recorded by Etienne Foyer and Rosalind Hall

Solo - Les Ateliers Claus - Brussels

Improvisation #4
Jim Denley & Rosalind Hall - Studio Acht - Berlin - 2014


Jim Denley & Rosalind Hall - Studio Acht - Berlin

Magda Mayas & Rosalind Hall - Z Bar - Berlin 2014
Improvisation #1
Piano & Saxophone with preparations.

Magda Mayas & Rosalind Hall - Z Bar - Berlin - 1

Magda Mayas & Rosalind Hall - Z Bar - Berlin 2014
Improvisation #2
Piano & Saxophone with preparations.

Magda Mayas & Rosalind Hall - Z Bar - Berlin - 2

David Brown & Rosalind Hall 

Prepared guitar and saxophone

Unsound Festival, Canberra, 2014

David Brown & Rosalind Hall - Unsound Festival

Judith Hamann - Cello
Rosalind Hall - Saxophone

Live at The Wulf, Los Angeles, 2016.

Recorded by Samuel Dunscombe
Edited and Mixed by Rosalind Hall


Judith Hamann & Rosalind Hall - The Wulf-LA

This piece was made for the Herbarium Project, exhibited at Lab 14 gallery, Melbourne University.  The source sound is a saxophone with an acoustic spring reverb attached.  

The time based processes to preserve and treat once living specimens is reflected in the practice undertaken in this piece.  I have made recordings of my performing acoustic instrument and processed them to shift the pitch and speed of the sounds and give a sense of slow degradation and the inevitable decay as tones subside with noise.  The recordings bear no reference to the environment they were taken from and so exist in an in-between space that is remote and hanging in time, a sense I felt when visiting the Herbarium at Melbourne University, a shrine to the proof of life.

Slow Heat - Excerpt

This composition was premiered at the inaugural Avant Whatever in Melbourne in 2016. It uses samples made from recordings of my saxophone along with field recordings I made of metal on wire fences, fireworks in Taiwan and cicadas in Japan. I have also played and processed various synthesisers throughout the piece.

Burden - Excerpt

The piece was made after a week long residency at Bogong, in the Victorian Alps (Australia).  Set high up in the mountains it inhabits part of the Kiewa Hydro-Electric Scheme.  I recorded the overhead power lines, pylons and transformers, the raging stream, the place where the water from the underground turbines is pumped back into the dam and my saxophone recorded at points around the lake.  

Bogong Hydro-Electric Scheme

Rosalind Hall is an Australian musician and composer who creates performances, compositions, installations and soundtracks.  Rosalind’s spatial and expansive work explores the physicality of sound through the use of amplification, microtonal movement, beating frequencies and reverberation.

Rosalind Hall

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