https://www.halrammel.com/graphic-art-1 daily 0.75 2020-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1603309161888-3K64QM6ZCTIX9UWUCD6N/AEROdreamBook_cover.jpg Graphic art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1603309161888-3K64QM6ZCTIX9UWUCD6N/AEROdreamBook_cover.jpg Graphic art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517433398882-X4OU57UYHRI9AF6RUK1Z/Ages_HR+web.jpg Graphic art - Aero Through the Ages, 2009 A retrospective of cartoons and comics by Hal Rammel from 1979 to 2009, Aero Through the Ages was published in Chicago by Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery, ”Rammel creates an amusing, touching, expressive succession of dream-images that trace the voyage of the central character through an abstracted landscape of nuclear power plants, cityscapes, menacing clothespins, and medieval-looking fortresses and castles. Aero’s journey is amusing and enveloping, and Rammel gives us a fluid evolution of visual impressions that are a study in the possibilities of metamorphosis, distortion, and shifting planes of reality. What’s notable is the uncompromised allusiveness of the conception and execution.” (Dale Luciano, The Comics Journal, September 1981) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1580911643909-DASPEYB5HC5PFLJ6Z3PX/LuminiferousAero_HR.jpg Graphic art - Luminiferous Aero by Hal Rammel.A new Aero adventure published in 2019 celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first Aero drawings. This volume includes the essay “Aero in the Luminiferous Aether” by Hal Rammel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517432168033-LDB9460U4FXY4CT4F0I7/Ages_HR+web.jpg Graphic art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517432995264-65JTXD7CO3KM54KJKJ9J/Coverse_HRweb.jpg Graphic art - Conversations in the Aether, 2014 Conversations in the Aether (Grafton: Penumbra, 2014) offers Aero's most recent adventures into the visual worlds of nine artists on the 20th century including Paul Klee, Sophie Tauber-Arp, Toyen, and Victo Brauner. A set of 11 such 'conversations' is preceded by 'Aeolian Melodrama' in which Aero navigates the nightmares of the urban and rural landscape. This 32 page book features an introductory essay by Alexandre Pierrepont. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517432463453-2S315VTYR5X8HEHBWU4A/Sketchbk_HRweb.jpg Graphic art - Aerosophical Sketchbook, 2013 Aero explores the lines and concepts of Paul Klee's 1923 Pedagogical Sketchbook. Aero’s first adventures appeared in Aero Into the Aether (Chicago: Black Swan Press, 1981) and Song of an Aeropteryx (Chicago: Black Swan Press, 1983). Subsequent cartoons and comix have been published in the pages of Aero Through the Ages (Chicago: Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2009), Aero: An Unfolding Adventure (Milwaukee: Woodland Pattern Book Center, 2011), and Conversations in the Aether (Grafton: Penumbra Music, 2015). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517789857178-AS9N4NB6UFEZ9XQ42V91/Unfolding6_HRweb.jpg Graphic art - Aero: An Unfolding Adventure, 2009 Aero: An Unfolding Adventure was published in 2009 by Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition of Aero original drawings, 1979 to 2009. It was printed as three 11" x 14" unbound pages within a paper sleeve in an edition limited to 30 copies. Out of print. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517432714452-1KO4J47LXC329F0DRSA9/Aeroptyx_HRweb.jpg Graphic art - Song of an Aeropteryx, 1983 The second Aero comic book, published by Black Swan Press in Chicago in 1983, included a 7" single record featuring improvised music by the trans duo (violinist LaDonna Smith and guitarist Davey Williams). The drawings and recordings were reissued by Atavistic Records in Chicago as part of the reissue of White Earth Streak, an earlier trans recording that included bassist Torsten Muller. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1603309351924-AAZNZF8QCO3QVP2AYJMK/AEROdreamBook_coverwebsite.jpg Graphic art https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/5a722d534192026a98521fd4/5f908ed37f5c685fb7521e1e/1603309274229/ Graphic art https://www.halrammel.com/pinhole-photography-1 daily 0.75 2020-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517495058212-PAWCKRZ2OIIXH6YYZB6X/Still_zebra.jpg Pinhole photography - Still Life with Zebra (for Gina Litherland), 2014 Pinhole photograph, silver gelatin print, 8" x 10." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517495058212-PAWCKRZ2OIIXH6YYZB6X/Still_zebra.jpg Pinhole photography - Still Life with Zebra (for Gina Litherland), 2014 Pinhole photograph, silver gelatin print, 8" x 10." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517433105314-D4FC77J7XVKPYP9YYOMG/Creek032415aweb.jpg Pinhole photography - Cedar Creek, 2016 Pinhole photograph using paper negative in homemade camera. Silver gelatin print, 8" x 10" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517495278480-76JER6RQITD9CL9J2T8U/StillLifeBrakeSpring_web.jpg Pinhole photography - Still Life with Brake Spring, 2014 Pinhole photograph, silver gelatin print, 8" x 10." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517495317755-3XNTGK72CH8GB9AIUNEZ/StillLifewithTimePassing_web.jpg Pinhole photography - Still Life with Time Passing, 2014 Pinhole photograph, silver gelatin print, 8" x 10." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517513876667-HQZDTIHIKE8INQV82VAT/HR_bottletreeWEB.jpg Pinhole photography - Bottle Tree, 1999 Pinhole photograph, contact print positive from paper negative, 1999. Silver gelatin print, 8" x 10." https://www.halrammel.com/stereo-photography-1 daily 0.75 2020-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517430065327-514KIX2SJOVPC6VEK3RM/Paired_June17aWEB.jpg Stereo (3D) photography - Photogram, June 2017 Stereo cameraless photographs, 2017. Silver gelatin prints mounted on 11" x 20" card. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517430065327-514KIX2SJOVPC6VEK3RM/Paired_June17aWEB.jpg Stereo (3D) photography - Photogram, June 2017 Stereo cameraless photographs, 2017. Silver gelatin prints mounted on 11" x 20" card. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517430179334-96LYPFB5NZYKETO6RL8E/Paired1818aWeb.jpg Stereo (3D) photography - Photogram, January 2018 Stereo cameraless photographs, 2018. Silver gelatin prints mounted on 11" x 20" card for viewing with handheld reflecting stereoscope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517430288189-269WS3R7FE6Y01ANQV88/Paired24175lrWEB.jpg Stereo (3D) photography - Photogram, 2017 Stereo cameraless photographs, 2018. Silver gelatin prints mounted on 11" x 20" card for viewing with handheld reflecting stereoscope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517430353670-DLMKPVYRFK4FKT5SU0KY/MirrorViewer_HRweb.jpg Stereo (3D) photography - Reflecting stereoscope, 2017 Reflecting stereoscope built by Hal Rammel for viewing pairs of stereo photographs mounted separately on 10" x 10" cards. This stereoscope is modeled after the original reflecting (mirror) stereoscope invented by Charles Wheatstone in the 1830s in his studies of the phenomenon of binocular vision. Wheatstone ‘tested’ his stereoscope with geometrical drawings, but within a few years commissioned Fox Talbot to produce photographs that might be visualized in 3D using his invention. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/5a72251053450a0f69a8f904/5a722715e4966b8d0b5073a6/1517430549267/ Stereo (3D) photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517430552167-IMOPC25Y82EAB24V3PQH/StereoViews_HRweb.jpg Stereo (3D) photography - Handheld reflecting stereoscope with side-by-side mounted stereo photographs, 2017 Handheld reflecting stereoscope built by Hal Rammel for viewing stereo photographs mounted side-by-side on 12" x 20" cards. This is a handheld variation of the original reflecting (mirror) stereoscope invented by Charles Wheatstone in the 1830s for his studies of the phenomenon of binocular vision. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517495544386-KVCV0LHF3VS3BRTHZ1ZZ/16HR_stereoscope1996WEB.jpg Stereo (3D) photography - Stereoscope, 1996 Remodeled vintage stereoscope by Hal Rammel with wider hood to accommodate modern eyeglasses. Designed for viewing vintage and contemporary stereo view cards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517513979328-JL1KFW3NW1S8WOOIL3TV/StereoCameraWEB.jpg Stereo (3D) photography - Stereo pinhole camera built by Hal Rammel, 1997. This stereo (3D) pinhole camera uses paper negatives (3" x 7") to produce side-by-side images which can be used in vintage stereoscopes when mounted on 3 1/2"x 7" cards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1580911388972-HKB8Q7QFNPCMI8A71W2A/ConcentrationOfAttention_HR.jpg Stereo (3D) photography - The Concentration of Attention A collection of stereo photographs by Hal Rammel, packaged with a stereo viewer. This volume includes a comprehensive essay by Steve Schlei on stereo photography and the visual art of Hal Rammel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517514258659-03Y6LQLMR4QVP8MZ8O2F/view+1998web.jpg Stereo (3D) photography - Stereo photogram, 1999 Stereo (3D) photogram, paper negative by Hal Rammel mounted on 3 1/2" x 7" stereoview card format. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517514319016-H6HI3GRRRWJGKOZ0H8FS/HRammel_02713web.jpg Stereo (3D) photography - Stereo photogram, 2004 Stereo (3D) photogram, a contact print positive from paper negative by Hal Rammel mounted on 3 1/2" x 7" stereoview card format. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1531673001780-11843R8YIPXDLGZAUB54/17HRammel_2007.jpg Stereo (3D) photography - Stereo photogram, 2017 Silver gelatin prints on 3 1/2” x 7” card. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1531673128414-LQK52CULC1WAJCUX6Y8X/HRammel_02784bWEB.jpg Stereo (3D) photography - Stereo photogram, 2007. Silver gelatin prints (contact print positive) on 3 1/2” x 7” card. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1531673228559-YXMPQJ7I9KZFMQQBGF6B/HRammelcard7WEB.jpg Stereo (3D) photography - Stereo pinhole photograph, 1997 Silver gelatin prints (original pinhole negatives) on 3 1/2” x 7” card. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1531673324442-635ONA6J7K5P1XCJIR2G/HRammel_035272aaWEB.jpg Stereo (3D) photography - Stereo pinhole photograph, 1997. Silver gelatin prints (original pinhole negatives) on 3 1/2” x 7” card. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1531685827775-2PRYCHQRPCK2GLBIGY4B/HR_Card173301WEB.jpg Stereo (3D) photography - Stereo photogram, 2017. Silver gelatin prints on 3 1/2” x 7” card. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1546982003543-33B336QOTOHP19NSQU2U/StillLife_KnockdownFB.jpg Stereo (3D) photography - Still Life with Knockdown Doll, 2018 Stereoscopic pinhole photograph, 2018. Silver gelatin prints mounted on 11” x 19” card. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1546982132061-4M8WJMHPUQ74RPJ9DIYN/PairedFilm121117FB.jpg Stereo (3D) photography - Caged Birds, 2018. Stereoscopic photogram, 2018. Silver gelatin prints mounted on 11” x 19” card. https://www.halrammel.com/musical-instruments-1 daily 0.75 2018-06-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517431632773-FX4SSETGSVOWGZUU68YL/palettetable2WEB.jpg Musical instruments - Amplified palette, 2004 Amplified palette designed and constructed by Hal Rammel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517431632773-FX4SSETGSVOWGZUU68YL/palettetable2WEB.jpg Musical instruments - Amplified palette, 2004 Amplified palette designed and constructed by Hal Rammel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517431729062-J3L00JTZWNT3F1G0H67W/palette2012WEB.jpg Musical instruments - Amplified palette, 2009 Amplified palette designed and built by Hal Rammel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517495000602-C76F0M99E4LZ384FM5HU/Palettecover_web.jpg Musical instruments - The Amplified Palette: A History in Pictures, 2016 The Amplified Palette: A History in Pictures (Penumbra Music, 2016) celebrates the 25th anniversary of the invention and exploration of this unique musical instrument first designed and built by Hal Rammel in 1991. The amplified palette is a thin wooden board fashioned in the shape of an artist’s palette and outfitted with a contact mic and numerous vertically-mounted wood and metal rods and played with a variety of uniquely designed bows and mallets. The amplified palette produces an astonishing array of sounds as noted in Christopher Burns introductory essay: “Onomatopoeia can’t do the palettes justice: grunting, crying, keening, chiming, pealing, clanging, sawing, sizzling, and scraping barely begin to suggest the range of timbres, or to express their depth and intricacy.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517495366818-5EIUNMY0Y5C9RRQBZ5I8/HR_BraqueWEB.jpg Musical instruments - Braque's Palette, 2012 Amplified palette modeled after the shape of a palette built by Georges Braque in the early 1930s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1528934500864-KYC89WQEDZF2Z51RVSXQ/Bibliolin_HR+copy.jpg Musical instruments - Bibliolin (How Music Grew), 1990 Violin constructed from wood and paper, 6” x 4” x 18.” Donated to the permanent collection of the National Music Museum (Vermillion, SD) in 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1528934662513-OCUX9JCZL3EOJLAK1F4C/Interocyter_HR+copy.jpg Musical instruments - Interocyter, 1997 Percussion instrument from wood & metal, 14” x 10” x 17.” Donated to the permanent collection of the National Music Museum (Vermillion, SD) in 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1528934818075-S42PR7STAP3HRZ2WT8SX/Sistrum_HR.jpg Musical instruments - Sistrum, 1997 Percussion instrument from wood & metal, 13” x 3” x 30.” Donated to the permanent collection of the National Music Museum (Vermillion, SD) in 2014. https://www.halrammel.com/portraiture daily 1.0 2025-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517431783208-K01QMNYAL6N8MCSKXGB3/palettebird_WEB.jpg Selected works - Amplified palette, 2010 Amplified palette designed and built by Hal Rammel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517431783208-K01QMNYAL6N8MCSKXGB3/palettebird_WEB.jpg Selected works - Amplified palette, 2010 Amplified palette designed and built by Hal Rammel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1736619938627-GWJW92MSUPXPUIIZ99M1/HalRammel_HobosRubesClowns_wp+copy.jpg Selected works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517422288344-87OCFJHY3F9MQ4K7IDTJ/HR_LRsky.jpg Selected works - Directions to the Sky, 2014 Pinhole photograph by Hal Rammel of welded steel sculpture by Lillian Rammel. Silver gelatin print, 8" x 10." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517422573952-DA15XNBNQ4OL7TFFLZFL/Radiance4HR.jpg Selected works - New Radiance, 2016 Careless photograph by Hal Rammel. Silver gelatin print, 6" x 6." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517494594720-SYYGCR8LP16T8PYUX5E8/Palettecover_web.jpg Selected works - The Amplified Palette: A History in Pictures, 2016 The Amplified Palette: A History in Pictures (Penumbra Music, 2016) celebrates the 25th anniversary of the invention and exploration of this unique musical instrument first designed and built by Hal Rammel in 1991. The amplified palette is a thin wooden board fashioned in the shape of an artist’s palette and outfitted with a contact mic and numerous vertically-mounted wood and metal rods and played with a variety of uniquely designed bows and mallets. The amplified palette produces an astonishing array of sounds as noted in Christopher Burns introductory essay: “Onomatopoeia can’t do the palettes justice: grunting, crying, keening, chiming, pealing, clanging, sawing, sizzling, and scraping barely begin to suggest the range of timbres, or to express their depth and intricacy.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517504274507-SE1FZ4JHOOX8ZFMBXN4C/Penumbra10inchWEB.jpg Selected works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1736619673880-T2R6DQZY4VRMD2041KTE/HalRammel_%2BMusicAlwaysRound_wp%2Bcopy.jpg Selected works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517504294540-L3KPPV545SD09IVZT1UW/PenumbraCD018web.jpg Selected works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1557952941628-0BDSKFPNQFYYZLLSBK9N/CD017coverWEB.jpg Selected works - Fractures & Phantoms Duo improvisation by Matt Turner (cello) and Hal Rammel (amplified palette). Penumbra Music CD017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1557952267280-AGYX7LFGZ86XNXSTZ0NE/TendrilsShadows+website.jpg Selected works - Tendrils & Their Shadows Photographs of wild grape vine tendrils and their shadows in winter light by Hal Rammel., 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1739211296110-VX2YMCK9ZBAR20W2G2Z2/image-asset.jpeg Selected works Multiple exposure photogram - camera less by flashlight (2025). https://www.halrammel.com/cameraless-photography-1 daily 0.75 2025-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517424016841-0324L8YC82K56EI76P54/Rad_LzHR.jpg Photograms (cameraless photography) - Beyond the Hearing of its Voices, 2016 Cameraless photograph by Hal Rammel (silver gelatin print, 6" x 6"). From A New Radiance; Twelve Photographs for Lafcadio Hearn (Penumbra Music Press, 2016). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517424016841-0324L8YC82K56EI76P54/Rad_LzHR.jpg Photograms (cameraless photography) - Beyond the Hearing of its Voices, 2016 Cameraless photograph by Hal Rammel (silver gelatin print, 6" x 6"). From A New Radiance; Twelve Photographs for Lafcadio Hearn (Penumbra Music Press, 2016). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517424125135-0LD0TV6GZNCNXXIP81HQ/Nov2015AAbordZ_hr.jpg Photograms (cameraless photography) - Freed from Dust and Film, 2016 Cameraless photograph by Hal Rammel (silver gelatin print, 6" x 6"). From A New Radiance; Twelve Photographs for Lafcadio Hearn (Penumbra Music Press, 2016). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517423521336-2XKS0KIMDIDEUTZQJFU2/Radiance4HR.jpg Photograms (cameraless photography) - Nature is Dangerous Here, 2016 Cameraless photograph by Hal Rammel (silver gelatin print, 6" x 6"). From A New Radiance; Twelve Photographs for Lafcadio Hearn (Penumbra Music Press, 2016). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517424361041-Y5AFJC3EI5N8U6EATIAB/path12_HR.jpg Photograms (cameraless photography) - Anunitum, 2015 Cameraless photograph by Hal Rammel (silver gelatin print, 7" x 7"). From Paths to Resemblance (Penumbra Music Press, 2015). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517424452239-T45K661DDNQANJGHZE6P/path11_HR.jpg Photograms (cameraless photography) - Crux, 2015 Cameraless photograph by Hal Rammel (silver gelatin print, 7" x 7"). From Paths to Resemblance (Penumbra Music Press, 2015). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517424809513-20MUTH0D6BI6QOF5WF2H/914gram_HR.jpg Photograms (cameraless photography) - Clamorous Woods, 2013 Cameraless photograph by Hal Rammel (silver gelatin print, 7" x 7"). From Paths to Resemblance (Penumbra Music Press, 2015). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517423357294-VZ9MGI4NTXKRT8H6C417/flashlightHR4.jpg Photograms (cameraless photography) - Night by Flashlight, 2016. Cameraless photograph by Hal Rammel (silver gelatin print, 6" x 7 1/2"). https://www.halrammel.com/performances daily 0.75 2020-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1542400583314-FHW2JPR2KU3407DNMN97/PaVdaPlus.jpg Performances - PaVda with special guest Amanda Schoofs PaVda (featuring Linda Binder playing viola d’amore and waterphone) performing at Woodland Pattern Book Center in October 2018 with special guest vocalist Amanda Schoofs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1542400583314-FHW2JPR2KU3407DNMN97/PaVdaPlus.jpg Performances - PaVda with special guest Amanda Schoofs PaVda (featuring Linda Binder playing viola d’amore and waterphone) performing at Woodland Pattern Book Center in October 2018 with special guest vocalist Amanda Schoofs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517504510816-KXNJBBTRHFKVEU1SB9G7/MattandHal.jpg Performances https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517506449415-H2U2UUF1D3FH85DMUQR0/PaVdaWEB.jpg Performances - PaVda at Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, 2016 The improvising duo PaVda features Linda Binder (viola d'amore, waterphone) and Hal Rammel (amplified palettes, saw, and waterphone). Formed in 2015, the name PaVda signifies ‘Pa’ for palette and ‘Vda’ for viola d’amore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517506760134-ZLNBTUJW6IGG6AYHOHV5/ScrawlAcmeWM_web.jpg Performances - Scrawl at Acme Records & Music Emporium, Milwaukee, 2015 The duo Scrawl features Chris Burns (electric guitar) and Hal Rammel (amplified palettes). Photo by Wilhelm Matthies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517506979295-4HGX5WLAE4ZCHA02BI5D/withMattAcmeGL2015.jpg Performances - Matt Turner and Hal Rammel at Acme Records & Music Emporium, Milwaukee, 2016 Matt Turner (cello) and Hal Rammel (amplified palettes) have been improvising together since the early 1990s. They released the duo CD Fractures & Phantoms in 2015 and the 10" record As on a Pivot of Air in 2016, both recordings produced by Penumbra Music in Grafton, Wisconsin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517507276189-3Z1XGXG8M29VWMZ2MMCZ/WM_HRweb.jpg Performances - Hal Rammel with amplified palette. Photo by Wilhelm Matthies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517507421959-8QUSFCVLZIO8ZGQEQ58Y/HRRiverwest_TimLadwigWEB.jpg Performances - Solo concert, 1994. A solo concert by Hal Rammel at the Riverwest Artist Association Gallery in Milwaukee in early 1990s. Photo by Tim Ladwig. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517507784596-QZL45QIAA8K4T2X0C393/HRacme_Xweb.jpg Performances - Hal Rammel with amplified palettes Performance at Acme Records & Music Emporium, Milwaukee, 2015. Photo by Wilhelm Matthies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517581043461-IJUXGC5K2QPCZH1X7CWM/HRLouSandraWEB.jpg Performances - Trio performance with Sandra Binion and Lou Mallozzi, 2012 Trio performance at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee: Lou Mallozzi (voice and texts), Sandra Binion (voice and texts), Hal Rammel (musical saw). https://www.halrammel.com/nowhere-in-america daily 0.75 2018-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517503355837-WAOTFRP7ULP366H9EP1O/nowhere_WEB.jpg Nowhere in America - Nowhere in America: The Big Rock Candy Mountain and Other Comic Utopias Diddie Wah Diddie, Doo Wa Ditty, the Big Rock Candy Mountain,the Land of Cockaigne, Lubberland, Schlaraffenland, and Nowhere share a history that follows a straight, crooked course extending further back in time and covering far more territory than might be thought possible of what today remain most familiar as subjects of simple children's songs and obscure folk tales. These remarkable places lie within the broader borders of equally remarkable lands that exist far beyond here or anywhere, maybe not even somewhere, in other words, nowhere. Although Nowhere can be found in the imaginative landscape of every land's folklore, Nowhere in America: The Big Rock Candy Mountain and Other Comic Utopias (University of Illinois Press, l990) proposes to identify and describe its presence in the imaginative landscape of America. From its earliest documented appearances in Greek Attic comedies of Teleclides, images and confabulations of a world turned upside down where rivers flow with milk, wine, and whiskey, where hens lay hard-boiled eggs, and clouds rain apple pies flow into the marvelous nooks and crannies of American popular culture. Nowhere in America chronicles the appearance of these marvels in Dogpatch (with L'Abner and the Shmoo); in the blues of Blind Blake, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and Sleepy John Estes; in the repertoire of Bo Diddley, Earl MacDonald’s Original Louisville Jug Band, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, and Haywire Mac McClintock; in the cartoons of Windsor McCay, Walt Kelly, Charles Addams, and Carl Barks; and in the film comedies of Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, Terry Gilliam, Pee Wee Herman, and Charles Bowers.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517503355837-WAOTFRP7ULP366H9EP1O/nowhere_WEB.jpg Nowhere in America - Nowhere in America: The Big Rock Candy Mountain and Other Comic Utopias Diddie Wah Diddie, Doo Wa Ditty, the Big Rock Candy Mountain,the Land of Cockaigne, Lubberland, Schlaraffenland, and Nowhere share a history that follows a straight, crooked course extending further back in time and covering far more territory than might be thought possible of what today remain most familiar as subjects of simple children's songs and obscure folk tales. These remarkable places lie within the broader borders of equally remarkable lands that exist far beyond here or anywhere, maybe not even somewhere, in other words, nowhere. Although Nowhere can be found in the imaginative landscape of every land's folklore, Nowhere in America: The Big Rock Candy Mountain and Other Comic Utopias (University of Illinois Press, l990) proposes to identify and describe its presence in the imaginative landscape of America. From its earliest documented appearances in Greek Attic comedies of Teleclides, images and confabulations of a world turned upside down where rivers flow with milk, wine, and whiskey, where hens lay hard-boiled eggs, and clouds rain apple pies flow into the marvelous nooks and crannies of American popular culture. Nowhere in America chronicles the appearance of these marvels in Dogpatch (with L'Abner and the Shmoo); in the blues of Blind Blake, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and Sleepy John Estes; in the repertoire of Bo Diddley, Earl MacDonald’s Original Louisville Jug Band, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, and Haywire Mac McClintock; in the cartoons of Windsor McCay, Walt Kelly, Charles Addams, and Carl Barks; and in the film comedies of Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, Terry Gilliam, Pee Wee Herman, and Charles Bowers.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517518449771-7N5YJKWGJWZ70HSQZWEQ/nowhere_WEB.jpg Nowhere in America Diddie Wah Diddie, Doo Wa Ditty, the Big Rock Candy Mountain,the Land of Cockaigne, Lubberland, Schlaraffenland, and Nowhere share a history that follows a straight, crooked course extending further back in time and covering far more territory than might be thought possible of what today remain most familiar as subjects of simple children's songs and obscure folk tales. These remarkable places lie within the broader borders of equally remarkable lands that exist far beyond here or anywhere, maybe not even somewhere, in other words, nowhere. Although Nowhere can be found in the imaginative landscape of every land's folklore, Nowhere in America: The Big Rock Candy Mountain and Other Comic Utopias (University of Illinois Press, l990) proposes to identify and describe its presence in the imaginative landscape of America. https://www.halrammel.com/pinhole-photograms daily 0.75 2020-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517580963595-MX7G4UT2B2ND1GNB6E0V/HRammel_ClearingWEB.jpg Pinhole photograms - Clearing in Half-Light (for Charles Burchfield), 2004 Multiple exposure in-camera pinhole photogram. Silver gelatin print, 8" x 10." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517580963595-MX7G4UT2B2ND1GNB6E0V/HRammel_ClearingWEB.jpg Pinhole photograms - Clearing in Half-Light (for Charles Burchfield), 2004 Multiple exposure in-camera pinhole photogram. Silver gelatin print, 8" x 10." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517580737832-YZUFTABW845IDRGC9DH7/HR_TornEdgesWEB.jpg Pinhole photograms - Torn Edges of the World, 2007 Multiple exposure in-camera pinhole photogram. Silver gelatin print, 5" x 7." https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/5a74719aec212d3cfa997458/5a7472358165f59ee87375ca/1517580853196/ Pinhole photograms https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517580858877-JNYXSY9152NG9S954OWS/HR_SoundPoemContraptionWEB.jpg Pinhole photograms - Sound Poem Contraption, 2005 Multiple exposure in-camera pinhole photogram. Silver gelatin print, 8" x 10." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517580914393-W46WKSIIKM7T5VOHEF96/HR_LunarCausticWEB.jpg Pinhole photograms - Lunar Caustic (for Malcolm Lowry), 2003 Multiple exposure in-camera pinhole photogram. Silver gelatin print, 5" x 7." https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/5a74719aec212d3cfa997458/5a74726ae2c483a4594c713a/1517580906975/ Pinhole photograms https://www.halrammel.com/papercuts daily 0.75 2020-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1580930158678-O04ENIYLTS0LC3KTRGNI/Thriving_011720.jpg Papercuts - Thriving from a Riff (for Charles Parker, 1945). Papercut (8” x 8”), 2020. Three takes of “Thriving from a Riff” were recorded by the Charles Parker quintet on November 26, 1945 in a session that led up to the culminating performance of “Koko”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1580930158678-O04ENIYLTS0LC3KTRGNI/Thriving_011720.jpg Papercuts - Thriving from a Riff (for Charles Parker, 1945). Papercut (8” x 8”), 2020. Three takes of “Thriving from a Riff” were recorded by the Charles Parker quintet on November 26, 1945 in a session that led up to the culminating performance of “Koko”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517602635522-KBOM346VGRI38WW3PPFL/papercut_HR1.jpg Papercuts - Papercut, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1527627580436-GR4Q03DO4R575GSE4TS3/Rammel_2WEBfbFB.jpg Papercuts - Papercut, 2010 14” x 18” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1527627636268-ZB6F33MF561QU3QBTGE5/Rammel_1WEB+fb.jpg Papercuts - Frenzy (for Al Cooper and his Savoy Sultans, 1940) Papercut (13“ x 16“), 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1527627681902-F7SEYCMAGHCG100GBRK0/Rammel4_fb.jpg Papercuts - Radio Rhythm (for Fletcher Henderson, 1931) Papercut (9“ x 12“), 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1527627719718-31COPNL51Y4JFN8XDVBC/Rammel3_fb.jpg Papercuts - Got the Jitters (for Don Redman, 1934) Papercut (13” x 17”), 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1535124325615-YYPG6N98R0HAZP7N2CH7/HRammel_BirdInIgorsYard.jpg Papercuts - A Bird in Igor's Yard (for George Russell, 1949) Papercut (8” x 8”), 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1535124497997-2UYC2WAF7NAF4JDE0MRN/HRammel_CubanoBop.jpg Papercuts - Cubana Be, Cubana Bop (for George Russell, 1948) Papercut (8” x 8”), 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1580930044239-11WNU8VSOY5GP83FIZRY/Odjenar1951GR_010820.jpg Papercuts - Odjenar (for George Russell, 1951). Papercut (8” x 8”), January 2020. The title “Odjenar” derives from a George Russell composition recorded by the Lee Konitz Sextet with Miles Davis on March 8, 1951. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1580930541738-MJHVIYUMNR6ERC495VCV/EzzThetic_011320.jpg Papercuts - Ezz-Thetic (for George Russell, 1948). Papercut (8” x 8”), January 2020. The title of this papercut derives from the 1951 recording of “Ezz-Thetic” by the Lee Konitz Sextet with Miles Davis in 1951. Reportedly, Russell wrote “Ezz-Thetic” in honor of boxer/double bassist Ezzard Charles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1581976939140-0I471RI6XTGWEY9UWI9T/20200216_from2010FB.jpg Papercuts https://www.halrammel.com/views-through-a-kaleidophone daily 0.75 2018-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1531674217448-0MXK1T2XO894VTSHBT2A/D10837_2+copy.jpg Kaleidophone studies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1531674217448-0MXK1T2XO894VTSHBT2A/D10837_2+copy.jpg Kaleidophone studies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1531674249625-QBIYEMHBVFDHZVKE0JQ1/C10761hand.jpg Kaleidophone studies - Overtones in Space & Time, 2018. The kaleidophone was invented by British inventor/scientist Charles Wheatstone in 1827 as a “philosophical toy” offering a visible display of complex vibratory motion. Fixed to a solid wooden base, a thin steel rod with a glass bead attached to the top is illuminated by a light source and photographed at varying shutter speeds as it is struck or bowed closer to the base. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1531674328871-RFKV9QMJXKA3RSWM76T4/A485.jpg Kaleidophone studies - Kaleidophone study, 2018. The kaleidophone was invented by British inventor/scientist Charles Wheatstone in 1827 as a “philosophical toy” offering a visible display of complex vibratory motion. Fixed to a solid wooden base, a thin steel rod with a glass bead attached to the top is illuminated by a light source and photographed at varying shutter speeds as it is struck or bowed closer to the base. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1531674474568-1UX67LDG379EPDJ6JGR1/D10848_2fb.jpg Kaleidophone studies - Kaleidophone study, 2018. The kaleidophone was invented by British inventor/scientist Charles Wheatstone in 1827 as a “philosophical toy” offering a visible display of complex vibratory motion. Fixed to a solid wooden base, a thin steel rod with a glass bead attached to the top is illuminated by a light source and photographed at varying shutter speeds as it is struck or bowed closer to the base. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1531674519802-1RBEGXO4GJCL56MPQMLF/D10857.jpg Kaleidophone studies - Kaleidophone study, 2018. The kaleidophone was invented by British inventor/scientist Charles Wheatstone in 1827 as a “philosophical toy” offering a visible display of complex vibratory motion. Fixed to a solid wooden base, a thin steel rod with a glass bead attached to the top is illuminated by a light source and photographed at varying shutter speeds as it is struck or bowed closer to the base. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1531674636435-FVIT811VJ5717FIGZYDS/AAAA600.jpg Kaleidophone studies - Kaleidophone study, 2018. The kaleidophone was invented by British inventor/scientist Charles Wheatstone in 1827 as a “philosophical toy” offering a visible display of complex vibratory motion. Fixed to a solid wooden base, a thin steel rod with a glass bead attached to the top is illuminated by a light source and photographed at varying shutter speeds as it is struck or bowed closer to the base. https://www.halrammel.com/music-always-round daily 0.75 2025-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1736817680241-CJS9519Z9NBP44YM8UGG/HalRammel_+MusicAlwaysRound_wp+copy.jpg Music Always Round https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1736817680241-CJS9519Z9NBP44YM8UGG/HalRammel_+MusicAlwaysRound_wp+copy.jpg Music Always Round https://www.halrammel.com/hobos-rubes-and-clowns daily 0.75 2025-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1736818470979-VRDQTKTL8VN16J1VIUCA/HalRammel_HobosRubesClowns_wp+copy.jpg New Galobos, Rubes, and Clowns: Comic Brass Bands in the early 1900s in America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1736818470979-VRDQTKTL8VN16J1VIUCA/HalRammel_HobosRubesClowns_wp+copy.jpg New Galobos, Rubes, and Clowns: Comic Brass Bands in the early 1900s in America. https://www.halrammel.com/read-me daily 0.75 2020-02-06 https://www.halrammel.com/contact daily 0.75 2019-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1517430982746-TVY58IG6BVR6L2Y308QP/HRammel_byGLitherland.jpg Biography Portrait of Hal Rammel by Gina Litherland, 2017 https://www.halrammel.com/articles-essays daily 0.75 2019-05-15 https://www.halrammel.com/new-page daily 0.75 2020-10-19 https://www.halrammel.com/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2025-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1549405091698-JUJ4LMW2AL287DXEKW0W/HRammel_HamesOctober18b.jpg ARTservancy ... with the Ozaukee Washington Land Trust https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1549405060107-C6Q56CXXQ84C1YF7GQU5/HRammel_HamesNovemberA.jpg ARTservancy ... with the Ozaukee Washington Land Trust https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1549405029767-HOJ4Y8J20PTHG5C7S0G0/HRammel_HamesOctober18a.jpg ARTservancy ... with the Ozaukee Washington Land Trust https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1549405118409-31NZE7OK2QDA3UYVPT3F/HRammel_HamesOctoberc.jpg ARTservancy ... with the Ozaukee Washington Land Trust https://www.halrammel.com/new-page-2 daily 0.75 2020-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1581972048351-LB6RZ8VJV2TVQRR0CCWN/TurnerRammel.jpg Selected Music Listen to Orchestra of Storms on Plus Timbre here: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1581972239613-CIW4S6GBC1R6AJCL2D1B/2015PaVda_Bwebssite.jpg Selected Music PaVda with Linda Binder and Hal Rammel on Fieldstone Recordings here: https://www.halrammel.com/photograms-by-flashlight daily 0.75 2025-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/d5e04c41-0943-4ec4-9d1b-01f529345a13/Flashlight2016_HR4.jpg Photograms by flashlight - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1739210524832-2D53F1ZF5FESBF7VS2BQ/Flashlight2016_HR1.jpg Photograms by flashlight - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a71f7920abd04dc5622c245/1739210688484-S9AT82FE86RJYYR9CHTD/Flashlight2016_HR1.jpg Photograms by flashlight