Album Notes

Scott F. Hall has worked with sound as an art form for exhibition (sonic art) since 1985. His audible sculptures have been best described as "soundtracks for films seen only in the mind."

On his seventh CD, Hall presents 23 new pieces with a duration of nearly one hour. A few tracks are stereo field recordings--sound portraits of particular times and places. Several others are live recordings incorporating the unique sounds made by his original sculptural objects, but most often in this CD, Hall uses sound itself as a sculptural material. The artist gradually builds up layer upon layer of precise harmony, melody, and rhythm to create his intricate signature-style works that are vividly pictorial in their impact upon the ear and the mind of the listener.

On Scultura Sana 7, Hall performs on electric bass, electric dan bau, electric whamola, analog modeling synth, and digital rhythm sequencer/sampler.

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Review by Chris Long, Brevard Live Magazine, October 2008

Scott F. Hall, Scultura Sana 7, 23 track CD

Scott F. Hall has been on the Brevard music scene for more than 20 years. In fact, I remember Scott sporting a fabulous, fashion-forward mullet as the bassist in the ‘80s alternative/pop band, The Walk. Creating music these days that is decidedly less pop and more experimental, Scott’s arsenal of musical weaponry now includes instruments I’ve never even heard of including an electric dan bau and an electric whamola (he’s got to be making this up) in addition to a host of sequencers, synthesizers and samplers. The liner notes of this record refer to the tracks on Scultura Sana 7 as “audible sculptures” and describes them as “soundtracks for films seen only in the mind.“ Which coincidentally was exactly how my teenage son described the music as we cranked up the disc in the ol’ mini van on the way home from his drum lessons last week. This record is fresh, bold, creative, and exciting. Highlights include “When it Rains, Sounds the Same,“ “Lilting Gilly” and “Thursday Afternoon.“ Fans of Frank Zappa, Robert Fripp, and Brian Eno will delight, as did I in this, his seventh in the “Scultura Sana” series. In fact, I enjoyed this record so much that I’m currently using excerpts from Scultura Sana 7 as the soundtrack to my new website.