[ a r c h i v e ]
mike hallenbeck

[ s o u n d ]

the secret history of karaoke

The Secret History of Karaoke is a new mp3 release from my Archive project, courtesy of Chicago's stasisfield.com.

Though in fact it has nothing whatsoever to do with karaoke, you can sing along with it if you like. This release consists of three separate works:

1. "2 Turntables and a Microwave" extracts drones and melodies from a brief guitar sample, sprinkling in percussive samples and field recordings of a food court in NYC's LaGuardia airport, the Minneapolis Public Library, and Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art.

2. "Elephant" presents a lumbering pack of discrete sound events which you may associate or dissociate as you like.

3. "Winter Wonderland" draws on two field recordings-- one of freezing rain in central Ohio, another of my boots crunching through Minnesota snow (the latter drawing on the same source material as "Crunch Time" from the "Immersion: Water Works" CD) and stretches them into an ominous mutated progression.

Download this release

Enjoy! And write a review over at earlabs.org if you like (link provided by Stasisfield).

the sonics of art spaces

I'm pleased to have been included on an mp3 compilation curated by John Kannenberg over at Stasisfield. The collection, called The Sonics of Art Spaces, focuses on the acoustics of museums and galleries across the world. My contribution, entitled "Sound Spandrel: Minnesota Museum of American Art", originated as a headphone piece at the MMAA's Sound In Art/ Art in Sound exhibition.

t a c t i l e

various objects and materials in direct contact with a stereo microphone

01. Tactile 01: paper crumpled around microphone (3:40)
02. Tactile 02: microphone dragged out of bed (2:38)
03. Tactile 03: leaves pressed around microphone (3:39)
04. Tactile 04: hands on microphone (4:06)
05. Tactile 05: hands on towel around microphone (4:01)

available for free mp3 download on Addendum, a net forum for sound works curated by Ben Owen out in NYC.

eventualities 1 : voice

Bryce Beverlin II vs. Mike Hallenbeck

The first in a series of planned remix/ de-mix projects. Each installment will involve the meditative reconstruction of a recorded performance.

Eventualities 1 : Voice proceeds from vocalizations by Bryce Beverlin II, recorded by request specifically for this release. I dismantled selections of these recordings (one legato, the other staccato) and put them back together again, using methods ranging from granular synthesis to plain old slowdowns and reverberation. Two resulting montages make up this release.

Available for free mp3 download from Insides Music.

For the holidays, 2006 / 2007:

Silent Night (Shepherds Quake)

"A refreshing take... There's something particularly dreamy about hearing "Silent Night" evaporate mid-hearing." --disquiet.com

i m m e r s i o n
w a t e r- -w o r k s

debut full-length cd from archive (mike hallenbeck)
more info

= = = = = = = = = = = = =

Make sure to check out
wandering ear

a net label devoted to field recording- oriented sound works

= = = = = = = = = = = = =

more releases
from Archive / Mike Hallenbeck :

Archive
[ music in black and white ]
online release from dark winter

"Synesthesia" is the experience of a stimulus by a different sense than that for which it was intended-- hearing colors, for example.

Whether or not he's a full-fledged synesthetic, sound artist Mike Hallenbeck tends to "see" sounds-- as a space of constantly evolving form, dimension, hue, value, highlight, and shadow.

A group of pieces deemed "greyscale" by Hallenbeck have been collected for "Music in Black and White", a new mp3 release by his sound art project Archive, now available from Dark Winter.

The material ranges from long-form "demixes" of tracks by Fadladder and Datura 1.0 ("In De Stijl of the Night", "That Will Be All") to pieces derived entirely from a binaural recording of a bike shop ("Trappr Keepr") and from the sound of Hallenbeck clucking his tongue ("Spork"). From stark and prickly to gauzy and ephemeral, the pieces blend with the incidental sounds of one's environment to provide a unique listening experience with each playback.

Try it on your headphones at a Man Ray photo exhibit, or as a soundtrack for "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari". Enjoy!

[ music box hero ]
the secret life of a music box

[ c o m p i l a t i o n s ]

Divinity/Nougat (live duet with Michelle Nagai) featured on 8 Sound Works, a compilation curated and organized by Ben Owen on behalf of the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology

Tramp/Chop featured on the 2005 60x60 compilation

Various pieces by mike hallenbeck featured on Rock's Role (After Ryoanji), a cd released in association with the exhibition of the same name at Art In General in NYC; for more info on the exhibition, see the installations page

Trappr Keepr featured on Quotidian Assemblages: Volume 3

Spotter featured on Locations: Volume 2 compilation of music from field recordings of urban spaces

Guggenheim featured on Phonography.org #4 field recording compilation

Spork featured on USA/USB compilation of American computer music

Mugwump featured on Overdose : The Final Religion ambient compilation

[ o n l i n e _ p r o j e c t s ]

Tactile 05 : Towel featured in the Flux project by sirr ecords / granular (Portugal)

Bitrate, Yes, and Archipelago featured on 8bitrecs (London, UK)

[ a b o u t ]

[ s o u n d ]

[ p e r f o r m a n c e s ]

[ i n s t a l l a t i o n s ]

[ j o u r n a l ]

[ c o n t a c t ]