Experimental multi-instrumentalist, composer/improvisor, author and visual artist, Hal Rammel has been designing and building musical instruments since 1977. He has performed with Russell Thorne, Davey Williams, LaDonna Smith, Jack Wright, Johannes Bergmark, Steve Nelson-Raney, Susan Rawcliffe, Terri Kapsalis and John Corbett. As an author and graphic artist, his work has appeared in the pages of Experimental Musical Instruments, the improvisor, Cultural Correspondence and Arsenal. He resides in southeastern Wisconsin where he teaches musical instrument invention at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at Milwaukee's A.E. Burdick Elementary School. He is the radio host of Alternating Currents in 20th Century Music on WMSE-FM in Milwaukee.
Acoustic improvisations featuring multi-instrumentalist Hal Rammel and guitarist John Corbett. Along with the vast array of Corbett's various guitar preparations, the instrumentation includes musical saws, gopychand, guica, and a number of custom designed, custom built instruments by Rammel (like the triolin and the single-string snath.) "To me, this disc contains some of the most exciting and valuable improvised music coming from America. The sensitivity of interaction and the obvious listening-to-each-other is really breathtaking." Radu Malfatti, liner notes to The Devil's in the Details
Electroacoustic improvisations and compositions performed on the electroacoustic sound palette designed and built by Rammel in 1991. States Rammel, "Sound palette improvisation hungers for this world in motion, an animate landscape of accelerated growth, sudden decay, unexpected dissolves, arrivals and departures, with a vivid sense that the visible and the invisible have exchanged places."
Acoustic improvisations by violinist Terri Kapsalis, guitarist John Corbett. and multi-instrumentalist Hal Rammel, including texts by Terri Kapsalis.