Mike Hallenbeck

Mike Hallenbeck
composer / sound designer
Work experience
Last update: 7/20/10

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Awards and Distinctions

Ivey Award, 2007, for sound design and live Foley effects on "Kid-Simple: A Radio Play in the Flesh" by Jordan Harrison, and sound design for "Hunger" by Sheri Wilner, both by Emigrant Theater, Minneapolis MN, 2006- 2007

Score for Picture

Demo available
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Selected recent work

Composer/ sound designer, "Fate", short, d. Kun Lui, 2010

Composer / sound designer, online educational videos for Art Center College of Design in Pasadena's Colors Materials Trends Exploration Lab, 2010- 2009 (via Tekspacular audio branding, Los Angeles)

Original music licensed for "Stacking Chips", feature, d. Arthur Louis Fuller, 2010

Composer/ sound designer: "Red and Blue Fly Away Forever", short, d. Jon Cazares, 2009

Composer: Playwrights' Center web trailers, 2009

Original score, "Mount Pleasant", short documentary, d. Meredith Ponder, 2009

Composition "Red" licensed for "Cryptic", feature, d. Danny Kuchuck and John Weiner, 2009

Score + sound design for installations by video artist Monika Bravo: "TIMEPIECE: [The present moment is the only time we have]", 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul, Korea (2008), "The Vortex" at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, NYC (2007), "No_Name [Frequency + Repetition]" at Centro De Arte Caja De Burgos, Burgos, Spain (2005)

Production + Post Sound

Selected recent work

Location boom / mix + post sound, "CSI: Ben McGinley" (video component), d. Ben McGinley, 2010

Location boom/ mix: "Tomorrow", short, d. John Koch, 2010

Location boom / mix, post sound mix: "New Girl", short, d. Steve Barberio, 2010

Foley, dialogue editing, mix: "Stacking Chips", feature, d. Arthur Louis Fuller, 2010

Post sound mix: "Red and Blue Fly Away Forever", short, d. Jon Cazares, 2009

Location boom / mix: Playwrights Center web trailers, d. Hayley Finn, 2009

Location boom / mix: "Early Risers All-Stars Save the World", community outreach video for Family Supportive Housing, produced by Steppingstone Theater, 2009, d. Ben McGinley

Sound effects + post sound mix: Online educational videos for Art Center College of Design in Pasadena's Colors Materials Trends Exploration Lab, 2010- 2009 (via Tekspacular audio branding, Los Angeles)

Location boom / mix: "Inkblot", short, 2008, d. Anthony Pierce

Location boom / mix: "Lester Mohr", short film, Skutty Hill Productions, 2008, d. Dennis Mosley

Sound Design for Theater

Selected recent work

Ben McGinley: CSI Ben McGinley (2010)

Park Square Theater: Painting Churches (2010)

Walking Shadow Theater Company: Mojo (2010)

The Playwrights' Center: Then Waves, Hawking (workshops) (2010, 2009)

Pillsbury House Theater: Chicago Avenue Project (sound effects), King of Shadows (2009)

Illusion Theater: Bill W. and Dr. Bob (2009)

Mixed Blood Theater: Gender Bender (fundraiser) (2009)

Emigrant Theater: My Name Is Rachel Corrie (2009)

Sound Design for Dance

Selected recent work

BodyCartography Project: SCUBA Touring Network showcase (2010), Holiday House at Home (2007), Minneapolis

Laura Holway: "Edina State of Mind", part of Artery 24 at the Soap Factory (2009), Minneapolis

Ballet of the Dolls: The Little Match Girl (2008), Italian Cabaret (2008), The Nutcracker Not-So Suite (2007), Barbarella (2007), Minneapolis

Zhauna Franks, The Dream Channel: Episode II (2009), The Dream Channel (2008), Minneapolis

Lisa Conlin: Sisterlove, part of the 2009 "Renovate" showcase at the Ritz Theater, Minneapolis

Installations / Sound Design for Installations

Original work:
"Things I've Said in my Sleep"
Group exhibition
Jace Gace, Portland, OR
July 2008

Sound design Commission:
"Heaven", installation by Amy Jorgensen
Part of the "30 Rooms" exhibition
Milepost 5, Portland, OR
May 16-24, 2008

Original work:
"Sound Spandrel: MMAA"
Part of the Sound In Art/ Art in Sound exhibition
Minnesota Mueum of American Art
St Paul, MN
April 14 - July 1, 2007

Original work:
"The Premises"
Part of the GeoPhonoBox exhibition
March 2 - March 28, 2007
Around the Coyote Gallery
1935 1/2 W. North Ave, Chicago IL

Peter Stuyvesant's Ghost
November 15-19, 2006, New York City
Contributions included site-specific telephone audio and a sound montage for radio boraodcast.

Unsilently
Group show at The Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA
September 10th - Rocktober 29th, 2005

Incidental Amplifications
Group show: sequenced and dispersed late nights as part of Liquid Architecture 6, Valley Fiesta and the Queensland Music Festival 2005

Belly of the Whale
An ongoing project from Jim Nollman's interspecies.com, "Belly of the Whale" brings composers around the world together to create music from the sounds of marine life. My contribution, "Dolphinator", is derived entirely from sounds generated by (you guessed it) dolphins.

"Belly of the Whale" has been presented in installation and/ or concert form at the Japan Expo, the Berlin Liquidrom, the American Cetacean Society, the Whale Museum, and the Denver Science Museum.

Original work: "Tactile: Various Objects And Materials In Direct Contact With A Stereo Microphone"
Headphone installation
Part of the Minneapolis 55408 exhibition at Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis
July 10 - August 29th, 2004

Rock's Role: After Ryoanji
Group sound art exhibition
Art In General, New York City
May 15 - July 3, 2004

One
Group outdoor sound installation by The Experimental Music Collective (EMC)
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Tuesday April 20, 2004
An event in honor of the Dalai Lama's visit to Vancouver.

"Brown Line at Damen" sound installation at Intermedia Arts, summer 2003

Contributing artist (sound samples), Larry Austin's Williams Mix at Engine 27 Gallery, NYC: 50th anniversary celebration of John Cage's "Williams Mix" for eight monaural magnetic tapes, the first octophonic tape music composition in the world created and performed with eight speakers surrounding the audience-- Saturday, March 22, 2003

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