After nearly five years since his last release, Tom Hall returns with Trip Computer—a stark, high-resolution audio-visual journey exploring memory, transmission, and systemic decay. The album captures Hall’s signature balance of dense texture and minimalist form, built from a hybrid synthesis, generative processes, and custom DSP systems built from the ground up by Hall himself.

While Hall’s discography has been quiet, his creative output has not. Over the past decade, he’s relentlessly performed live across the globe, been a founding member of a new project 'Tree of Life' at NASA/JPL focused on sound and perceptual systems; developed custom software for Nine Inch Nails; contributed to sound design for Hollywood franchises including Fast and Furious; and supported R&D and sonic tooling for leading audio companies. In parallel, he’s maintained an active role in the development of Cycling ‘74’s MaxMSP and joined the faculty at USC Thornton School of Music, teaching advanced courses in audio synthesis, live performance technologies, and computer music.

Hall’s return to recorded music is not a comeback — it’s a recalibration. One forged in two decades of continuous experimentation and technological inquiry and along for the ride are some of his favorite performers...

r beny is an electronic ambient project from San Jose, California. Through the use of modular synthesizers, samplers, and tape loops, Cairns weaves a sonic bouquet of textured drones and melancholic melodies that recall half-imagined memories of forest drives, coastal cliffs, and lost loves.

Testu Collective is the intermedia art group founded by Serena Stucke & Dan Tesene. They create experimental videos, concept soundtracks, audiovisual experiences, sound art, and performance art installations.Testu has produced site-specific installations and curated works for Gray Area (SF), 2220 Arts and Archives (LA), Artists Space (NYC), Public Visuals (Tokyo), CTM Festival(online), Ars Electronica (NYC), Ace Hotel (NYC), The Shed (NYC), Pleamar Festival (Buenos Aires). Most recently Testu created a multichannel sound installation for Dan Flavin's light sculptures at Mana Contemporary.

Amma Ateria is an electroacoustic composer and sound artist working in psychoacoustics with binaural beats and equal-loudness contour. Compositions developed during her concussion recovery utilizes brainwave entrainment, time shifts, and changes of neurological responses to DELTA, THETA, ALPHA, BETA, GAMMA waves as materials and focal point. ‘The Entropic Arias: I. Neurogenesis Overload’ sonically encapsulates her post-concussion neurogenesis as it enters stages of maximal entropy. A series of sonic movements develops as she navigates entropy acceleration to reach equilibrium. This work invites audiences into a space where breakdowns—sonic or cognitive—become thresholds for clarity and balance for meditation, blurring the line between collapse and emergence.

Sharkiface is a solo electronic musician and sound artist from Oakland, CA. She uses an interdisciplinary approach to create live textural incantations. Layering live samples, textures, and rhythms, her mostly improvised sets are made with an extremely tactile and rare synthesizer (the Ciat-Lonbarde Tranoe Ambrazier), sampler, and manipulated voice. Sharkiface also plays in the dark wave, synth duo Jeweled Snakes and performs with Aurora Josephine in the femme fatale electronic duo Tainted Pussy. Since 2000, Sharkiface — a long-time participant in the Bay Area noise scene — has been in projects such as Caroliner, Crack:WAR, Pigs in the Ground, and Tarantism. She also started and co-ran Life Changing Ministry, West Oakland's noise chapel.