Summary In this episode of the Immersive Audio Podcast, Oliver Kadel is joined by Halsey Burgund and Francesca Panetta via Skype from the studio at MIT campus, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Halsey Burgund is a musician and sound artist living outside Boston. Both his installations and musical performances make extensive use of spoken human voice recordings as musical elements, alongside traditional and electronic instruments. Francesca Panetta is Creative Director at MIT’s Center of Advanced Virtuality. Previous to this she was a Nieman fellow at Harvard, and Executive Editor at the Guardian where she worked on immersive and innovations projects for 13 years, notably running the in-house virtual reality studio. In this episode, they discuss the evolution of their multifaceted careers, mutual collaborative projects such as audioar.org and “In Event of Moon Disaster”, and the importance of synergy between academia and professional practice. 
Francesca Panetta
Francesca Panetta is Creative Director at MIT’s Center of Advanced Virtuality. Previous to this she was a Nieman fellow at Harvard, and Executive Editor at the Guardian where she worked on immersive and innovations projects for 13 years, notably running the in house virtual reality studio. Francesca is an artist and journalist and specifically interested in the intersection of sound, story and technology. Nine years ago she pioneered a series of locative audio guides using the GPS on smartphones for her company Phantom Productions. She’s interested in the way sound changes your perception of the world, first the real world and now virtual worlds.
Halsey Burgund
Halsey Burgund is a musician and sound artist living outside Boston. Both his 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, via in-person interviews, smartphone apps and the internet. In many ways, Halsey’s work is a combination of socio-anthropological ‘research’, musical documentary and contributory experience.
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Show Notes
Audio AR Website – https://audioar.org/
MIT Open Documentary Lab – http://opendoclab.mit.edu/
Halsey Burgund – https://halseyburgund.com/
Roundware Website – https://roundware.org/
Hackney Podcast – https://hackneypodcast.co.uk/
Walks – http://cardiffmiller.com/artworks/walks/
Iain Sinclair – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Sinclair
Smithsonian – https://www.si.edu/
International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam – https://www.idfa.nl/en/
In Event of Moon Disaster – https://www.idfa.nl/en/film/29cebac4-4364-49d6-bf7a-479d16c04c02/in-event-of-moon-disaster
In Event of Moon Disaster Official Website – https://moondisaster.org
Canny AI – https://www.cannyai.com/
The University of the West of England – https://www.uwe.ac.uk/
BBC – https://www.bbc.co.uk/
The Guardian – https://www.theguardian.com/uk
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Credits
This episode was produced by Oliver Kadel and Michelle Chan with the help of Emma Rees and included music by Knobs Bergamo.