Tom Hall :: Boards 22_25 (Sonoptik)

Spanning eleven immersive hours, this nineteen-piece archive captures Tom Hall’s post-pandemic return to the stage, charting a 2022–2025 global arc of DSP-driven live performance where modular circuitry, fractured rhythm, and sculpted abstraction coalesce into relentlessly evolving sound architecture.

Tom Hall’s global live circuitry

This nineteen-piece archive of live board recordings traces a trajectory from 2022 through 2025, opening with the artist’s return to the stage after a two-and-a-half-year pandemic silence and closing with a recent Portland performance (September 2025) supporting Trip Computer. Across more than eleven hours, Tom Hall unleashes a DSP-driven continuum where live circuitry, signal flow, and performance converge. Broken rhythms collide with sculpted melodies, downtempo glitches shimmer alongside abrasive pulses, and each set unfolds as a deliberate act of real-time construction.

Absorbing such density demands patience, yet Hall’s command of modular systems and rhythmic abstraction places him among the most compelling practitioners working today. His sets shift fluidly between surreal momentum and deep stasis, yielding ambient surges, corroded drones, and extended passages built patiently from subsonic frameworks upward. Rather than excess, restraint guides these evolutions, allowing sound to breathe, fracture, and reform.

Boards 22_25 documents this process across continents—San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Seoul, Tokyo, Nagoya, Himeji, Idyllwild, Melbourne, Mexico City, Cholula, Monterrey, Austin, and Portland—capturing performances that warp space through modular architectures, industrial gravity, and otherworldly deformation without relent. Admirers of Richard Devine, Autechre, Datach’i, or Daniel Avery will find deep resonance in these transformative live transmissions.

Boards 22_25 is available on Sonoptik. [Bandcamp]