Halsey Burgund
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.
