Travelling the world: Australia to the Amazon and to Africa and beyond. With an ability to record sounds in hot and cold climates.
Environmental field recordist, sound artist and performer creating original environmental site-specific spatial sound works. Combining scientific research with art, Hallett explores human and nature relationships. With an interest in wildlife and underwater recordings as a means to sense through sound, what is happening in a given space, the health, the presence and absence, the behaviour of living things.
Scientific Research papers & publications:
Acoustic effects of the Greater Bowerbird Bowers. 2024
Australasian Sound Archive: Journal of Australasian Sound Recording Association. Issue No. 45. Personal Explorations with acoustic ecology: three case studies from Australia. 2022
Soundscape Vol 17 - The Journal of Acoustic Ecology. World Forum of Acoustic Ecology. 2019. Field report: Sonic Mmabolela, South Africa.
Australian Wildlife Sound Recording Group. Audio Wings Vol 20. No1. Aug. 2018
Commissions include:
On the Land exhibit - Grasslands soundscape & sound design - National Wool Museum.
Water soundscape for projection on Geelong City Hall with Maverick Arts. Ngubitj, Samoan, Water - Songs, Stories & Connection.
From Fleece to Fabric exhibit - sounds of machinery for an exhibition soundtrack - National Wool Museum.
Where the Rivers Run - Geelong Nature Forum, National Wool Museum.