Hal Rammel designs and builds musical instruments in the service of composition and free improvisation. He is the inventor of the triolin, bibliolin, snath, aerolin, and hydro-aerolin and has performed and recorded on these instruments in ensembles with John Corbett, Matt Turner, Michael Zerang, Steve Nelson-Raney, Jim Baker, Tom Hamilton, Davey Williams and LaDonna Smith, Terri Kapsalis, among many others. His electroacoustic instruments include the amplified palette and single-string electric guitar and he has performed and recorded these instruments with the Nihilist Spasm Band, Jon Mueller, Chris Rosenau, Matt Turner, Fred Lonberg-Holm's Lightbox Orchestra, Steve Nelson-Raney, Thomas Gaudynski and others.
Hal Rammel has recorded for Penumbra Music, Crouton Records, Necessary Arts, Soutrane, and Atavistic Records. His studio-based electroacoustic assemblages constructed from location recordings and found sounds have been featured in the Chicago's Outer Ear Festival of Sound and have been released on Penumbra Music (the duo CD with Lou Mallozzi titled Whole or By The Slice), Atavistic Records (Weave and Raze on the 2006 compilation Eye & Ear) and on Penumbra Music's collection of radiophonic works Three Days.
Hal Rammel's most recent recordings include compositions for amplified palette - Like Water Tightly Wound - on a limited edition 10" vinyl recording from Crouton Records and Three Days - on Penumbra Music - a collection of three radiophonic works inlcuding the previously unreleased electroacoustic compositions "Pitchforth" and "All or Nothing."
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“Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, and pleased with merely numerically adding up my stores. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer of my more or less good works mad. But always there is present a feeling of unexplained relations of events that I note; and it is this faraway, haunting, or often taunting, awareness, or suspicion, that keeps me piling on -â€
- Charles Fort, 1932
