changed: - tom tlalim composer, computer musician, programmer and vocalist. investigates noise, overdrive and feedback within the digital domain in 2003 graduated masters in sonology and ba in composition at the royal conservatory in the hague, where he is currently finishing an ma in composition. tlalim took up music as a guitar player, playing in various (punk rock) bands such as feister gunz, groovehead and morbid mermaid. alongside a career as a film musician, he studied composition with arie shapira, and at the royal conservatory, den haag. tlalim is an improviser and working extensively with the open source programs supercolllider and pd. "overdriving an instrument is a useful method to exceed the both the limits of the tool and the limits of the user. the tool, being designed to perform certain tasks, is released from its boring routine and starts to produce sounds, while the user is forced out of his habits, limitations and traditions to find new methods to tame the ‘hyper’ machine" noise-control-noise tlalim's starting point is generally accidental. a needle drop, a controller gesture, feedback. this chance operation is then cut up, resampled, processed developed and moderated throughout the piece. tlalim is concerned with creating tension by producing these type of concrete elements and then breaking them down. (http://www.tomtlalim.tk) (http://www.tangiercluj.tk)