Mike Hallenbeck
Sound artist
Work experience
Last update: 10/7/08

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

Sound for film and video

Location sound recordist, "All Roads Lead Home", short film (in production), Portland, OR, d. Charles and Ryan

Location sound recordist, "Inkblot", short film, shot in Portland, OR October 2008, d. Anthony Pierce

Location sound recordist, "The Road to Wellness" (48 Hour Film Project), Riverscape Pictures, shot in Portland, OR August 2008, d. Scott Cummins

Location sound recordist, "Lester Mohr", short film, Skutty Hill Productions, shot in Portland, OR July- August 2008, d. Dennis Mosley

Location recordist and post-production sound editor for "Nicollet Avenue", an improvisational performance film by Body Cartography dance company, Minneapolis, 2006

Sound design for installations by Brooklyn-based video artist Monika Bravo: "TIMEPIECE: [Time is movement of the mind]" and "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)

Post-production sound editing and voiceovers for 3 web advertisements promoting NA Trading And Technology, 2007

Music composition, location sound recording and post-production sound editing for self-produced documentary films City Reliquary and Wild West Show (works in progress)

Sound design for dance

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

Body Cartography, Minneapolis MN: Holiday House at Home (2007)

Zhauna Franks, The Dream Channel (2008), presented in New York City and Minneapolis MN

Sound design for theater

Actors Equity showcase, Minneapolis MN: A Streetcar Named Desire (2005)

The Actors Theatre of Minnesota, St Paul MN: Driving Miss Daisy (2004)

Cincinnati Playhouse, Cincinnati OH: Murderers (2007)

The Directors Theater, Minneapolis MN, Resident Sound Designer, 2001 season: Talk Radio, The Maiden's Prayer, Glengarry Glen Ross, Dottie: A Story of Dorothy Parker, Baby with the Bathwater, Down the Road/ Tone Clusters

Emigrant Theater, Minneapolis MN: Hunger (2007), Kid-Simple: A Radio Play in the Flesh (2006), A Corner of the World (2005)

Fifty Foot Penguin Theater, Minneapolis MN: The Quick and the Red (2003), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2002), I Married Odin (2003/2002), Escape from Happiness (2001)

Great American History Theater, St Paul MN: Kirby: The Puckett Story (2007), Chopsticks, Band-Aids, and Johnny Unitas (2006)

Gremlin Theatre, St Paul MN: Everywhere Signs Fall (2008), Wait Until Dark (2005), Blithe Spirit (2004)

Guthrie Theater/ University of Minnesota Actor Training Program, showcases 2004- 2007

Hand2Mouth Theatre Company, Portland OR: Project X (2008)

Illusion Theater, Minneapolis MN: Mrs. Mannerly (2008), Autistic License, Iron Kisses (2007), American Klepto (2006), Murderers (2005), Turn of the Screw, No Distance Between Us (1998)

The Ministry of Cultural Warfare, Minneapolis MN: The Vanek Trilogy (2004), Industrials, The Unbearable Lightness of Being American (2003), Sure Thing, Urbane Legends (2002), Wasp (2001)

No Refunds Theatre Company, Minneapolis MN: What's Done in the Dark: A Graphic Novel on Stage (2008), Great Moments in Kung Fu Theatre History (live voice-overs), 2007

Outward Spiral Theatre Company, Minneapolis MN: In The Garden, The Mineola Twins (2004), 5 Women on a Hill in Spain, In the Heart of America (2003), Brave Smiles... Another Lesbian Tragedy (2002)

Pigs Eye Theatre, Minneapolis MN: Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Front Page (2004), Buried Child, The House of Yes, A Few Good Men (2003)

The Playwrights Center/ Minnesota History Center, Minneapolis MN: The Museum Solliloquies (2008, 2007)

Portland Ensemble Theatre Company, Portland OR: Pylon (2008)

Starting Gate Productions, St Paul MN: Man Saved By Condiments (2005), Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (2004), Little Murders (2003)

Theater in the Round, Minneapolis MN: The Cherry Orchard (2004)

Torch Theater, Minneapolis MN: A Thousand Clowns (2007), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Educating Rita (2006), The Miracle Worker (2006, 2005)

--misc

Jill Bernard: Medea Medea (2003), US/ Canada Improv Festival showcases

Lois Weaver, Suzy Messerole, Renee Sugrue: The Trouble With Bill (Dyke Night 2003, Walker Art Center)

"The Worst Holiday Pageant Ever" (Sarah Gioia, Craig Johnson, David Mann, Joe Scrimshaw), 2003

"The Worst Show in the Fringe" (Sarah Gioia, Craig Johnson, David Mann, Joe Scrimshaw), 2003 Minnesota Fringe Festival

Sound design for video games

So I designed the sounds for a video game in 2007, which included signing a confidentiality agreement. The Chicago-based client appeared to be happy with my work, paid me, and subsequently disappeared into thin air. I've seen no sign of the game anywhere, the client doesn't answer my emails, and as far as I know I'm still bound by the confidentiality agreement. So I wish I could tell you more about it, but it doesn't look as if I can. Sorry!

Installations / sound design for installations

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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