Alec Hall's grandmother escaped Nazi-controlled Danzig in 1939, and his great-grandfather was from a distinguished Rabbinical dynasty, influencing his work "The Water's Memory, the Memory of Sand."
Composer's Artistic Vision
For his piece "A Dog Is a Machine for Loving," Alec Hall draws on the Companion Species Manifesto by American theorist Donna Haraway, which explores intra-species kinship.
Compositional Technique
Alec Hall's work "A Dog Is a Machine for Loving" extensively uses recordings of dogs, presenting them both realistically and with digital sound processing.
Compositional Technique
In "There Are Only Two Ways to See Inside Someone," the violin's soundworld explores subtleties of touch and hand position to create erotically charged noise, corresponding with a soundtrack of sexual sounds.
Compositional Technique
Alec Hall's string quartet, "The Water's Memory, the Memory of Sand," incorporates mechanical noises like MRI sounds and transcriptions of air raid sirens, fighter jets, and bombs.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Alec Hall, the Canadian-born, New York City composer, often incorporates "things that we all know" into his music, deconstructing them for artistic exploration.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Alec Hall aims to break the "prudish barrier" in classical music by incorporating erotic themes, which he notes are omnipresent in almost every other art form.
