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mike hallenbeck [ s o u n d ] the secret history of karaoke
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. Enjoy! And write a review over at earlabs.org if you like (link provided by Stasisfield). the sonics of art spaces
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various objects and materials in direct contact with a stereo microphone
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
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
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debut full-length cd from archive (mike hallenbeck)
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"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!
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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
Bitrate, Yes, and Archipelago featured on 8bitrecs (London, UK)
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