Starting his career as guitarist and film composer, Tom Tlalim took up composition with Prof. Arie Shapira. He then continued his studies earning a Master degrees in Composition and Sonology from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. Tlalim lives and works in Israel and the Netherlands, where he writes and performs electronic and acoustic music, in collaboration with top musicians in the field. His music has seen performances from renowned ensembles such as MAE, Dutch Vocal Lab, SOIL ensemble, Electra, and the POW ensemble.

Alongside his compositional work, Tlalim has performed and presented regularly on international venues including DEAF, Huddersfield contemporary music festival, TodaysArt, AudioArt festival, Gaudeamus Live Electronics Festival, and Levontin 7. He co-curates the annual Noisecape festival in The Hague, alongside events in collaboration with the POW ensemble at TAG, studio LOOS, alongside editing and presenting UCON - a new-music platform with biweekly radio program in collaboration with Jan Trutzschler. His music has seen releases under X-OR, Vita records, pit/kit and Nana disc.

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“...what impressed us most was his performance at the DEAF07 Festival ... We were not only impressed by his savviness to hook up a new controller on the fly, but also the intensity and energy he was able to bring in such a situation. Tlalim is definitely one of the most expressive computer-based musicians that we have seen in the recent years.” STEIM

Selected recent works:

• Music for Puzzled Jerusalem, a documentary by Israeli director Asher Tlalim (2008)

• New piece for Berlin-Bagdad, a project by the Dutch Vocal Lab (2008)

• Ars Memoria (rec) (2007) - for Recorders, electronics and panoramic still Images. Karolina Bäter – Recorders, Tom Tlalim - Computer, Shira Klasmer – Photography

• Quantasonic (2007) - audiovisual installation utilizing the metaphor of 3d space for interaction with large quantities of musical parameters. This work was premiered during Today's Art festival 2007, as part of TAG programming, at STEIM, as well as presentations world wide. http://quantasonic.info/

• The perfect place (2007) - Music for a piece by the choreographer Nicole Beutler.

• Composition for 3 computers and the Disklavier commissioned by the POW ensemble

• Impulse-Stretch-Feedback-Resonance (2007) - solo for Live Electronics.

• Kin (2006) - A piece for MAE, with live electronics and a custom-made sound system. commissioned for MAE Sound Basics programme in 2006, and performed in mant venues including Gaudeamus Live Electronics festival 2006, Frascati, Korzo, Kikker and more.

• Wallpaper Mother (2005, 2007), reduced - compact version of a music theatre piece inspired by Anne Sexton (Korzo Muziekproducties, 2007, 2005)

• Composition and improvisation in the context of mant initiatives, such as POW ensemble goes TAP HOP! with Joseph Bowie, the POW ensemble, Voldemars Johansons, DJ sniff, Keir Neuringer, Robert van Heumen, TAG, STEIM, String ensemble jargon and more.

• Performances in this context include DEAF (NL), Today's Art (NL), State-x (NL), Muziekgebouw, Paradiso, BimHuis, STEIM, TAG, DNK, Cerkno jazz festival (SLO), Audio Art Festival (PL), Jauna Muzika (LT), Schokoladen, Berlin (DE) and more.

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