Roundware is Halsey’s fault.
He is a musician and sound artist living outside Boston and has been working on Roundware in the context of his sound installations since 2007. Roundware originated as the technical infrastructure for his sound art installation ROUND, on exhibit at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in mid-2008. Roundware was expanded dramatically to include location-awareness and other benefits for Halsey’s 2010 exhibition Scapes at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA. This piece allowed 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.
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