Album Notes

Scott F. Hall has experimented with sound as an art form for exhibition (sonic art) since 1985. His audible sculptures have perhaps been most accurately described as “soundtracks for films seen only in the mind.”

On his fourth CD, Hall presents fourteen new pieces with a duration of forty minutes total playing time. The artist's work here is composed almost entirely of precisely layered electric bass guitar tracks. Each piece is an exploration of intricate rhythms and expressive harmonies created intuitively through a repetitious, additive technique that is ultimately indebted to the ancient musical forms known as “canon” and “round.” Hall’s work in Scultura Sana 4 is delicate, technically meticulous, emotionally rich, and remarkably diverse in tone despite the homogenous use of a single electric bass guitar throughout.