Wednesday, 06 March, 2024 - 21:04

Samuell Hall

Samuel Hall is a drummer, percussionist and interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin, Germany. Engaging the meeting points of electro-acoustic and acoustic music through extended technique, electronics, object and drum preparation. Informed by a strong improvisational language, his music draws on a deep sonic palette that investigates evolving musical structures, timbres, and sound systems. As an interdisciplinary artist, Hall has worked with painters, dancers and visual designers creating interactive multi-layered works that challenge the norms of performance.

Working extensively in the Berlin Echtzeit Musik scene and beyond, Hall’s recent projects include; Soap Tongues, Sundogs, Antares, Pitch Shifting Group, S P O I L E R, and has been collaborating with artists such as; Satoko Fujii, Guido Kohn, Julia Reidy, David Murray, Lucio Capece, Emilio Gordoa, Liz Kosack, Tristan Honsinger, Aviva Endean, Judith Hamann, Sam Dunscombe, Bryan Eubanks, Sophia Salvo, Axel Dorner amongst many others.

Hall has toured regularly through Europe performing in many contexts in a wide variety of venues and festivals including Berlin Jazz Fest and the Jazztopad festival in Wroclaw, Poland. Regularly hosting the afterhours sessions at Jazztopad, Hall has collaborated with some of the biggest names in jazz and improvised music including; Hamid Drake, Michiyo Yagi, Sylvie Courvoisier, Jamie Branch, JB Lewis, Shabaka Hutchings, Brad Mehldau, Naissam Jalal, Maria Grand amongst many others.