Halsey is the artistic and conceptual force behind Roundware.
He is a musician and sound artist living outside Boston and has been working on Roundware in the context of his sound installations for the past three years. Roundware originated as the technical infrastructure for his sound art installation ROUND, on exhibit at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in mid-2008. Halsey’s next significant museum exhibition will be in 2010 at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA. This piece, called Scapes, will allow participants to augment the physical landscape of the museum’s sculpture park by leaving audio commentary in locations of their choosing for other participants to hear.
All of Halsey’s installations and musical performances make extensive use of spoken human voice recordings as musical elements, alongside traditional and electronic instruments. He collects these voices from otherwise uninvolved individuals whom he records in various locations, from museums to street corners to rock clubs.
Halsey also has a band, aesthetic evidence, with which he performs his music publicly, often including interactive performances in which he records audience members’ voices and uses those recordings improvisationally within songs.
Halsey’s website
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Mike is the software architect and primary developer for Roundware.
In other words, without him, Roundware would be nothing more than an idea. Mike has been involved with Roundware from day 1. He randomly met Halsey at a Bring Your Own Voice event at the Aldrich Museum (the site of the original ROUND installation) before Halsey had even formulated the idea for ROUND. As they both live in Boston, a friendship ensued and as ROUND began to progress from an artistic idea to a reality, Mike played an integral role in solving problems, answering questions and bringing it to fruition.
Since the original installation, Mike has continued to improve and further stabilize the code while also bringing to life Halsey’s ever-evolving artistic ideas; not an easy task!
When he is not working on Roundware, Mike is seldom bored, amusing himself with projects ranging from a bicycle karaoke machine to a fully working trebuchet.
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Rodney has joined the team with the specific task of bringing Ocean Voices to the iPhone. To date, Roundware has not made the leap to smartphones, but soon Rodney will put and end to this short-coming.
Rodney is the founder of a social media company called Kayanta which helps you discover all the events that are happening locally which you may be interested in checking out. A great way to get away from the computer! Thankfully, Rodney has been ignoring many of Kayanta’s suggestions, sticking by the computer with xcode open…
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David brings much more deep coding and design experience to the Roundware team. A recent convert to the wonders of Roundware, David will be putting his web experience to very good use re-designing, improving and building and web administration panel for Roundware.
David is somewhat of a luminary in the Boston tech scene, running Dorkbot Boston as well as a newly formed hacker space in Somerville. He is an independent consultant working on a wide variety of tech projects for a group of clients. Also, he has a pet iguana named Iggy who has taken to laying impressive clutches of (sadly unfertilized) eggs once or twice a year.
David’s website
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