PUPPET SHOW, BUT NO SPINAL TAP

I’ve been editing sound cues for a puppet show. How cool is that? 

Puppet Lab describes itself as “an artist incubator celebrating its ninth year of radical, genre-expanding, boundary–pushing puppet work. A formalized process for emerging puppet and mask theater artists to advance their artistic development— to test and create new works within a supportive and challenging workshop environment. This program gives artists the time and space to test ideas, learn from others, and receive and respond to critical feedback.”

I’ve been editing audio for one of the productions in this process, Oanh Vu’s “Phantom Loss”. It premieres on January 17th, 7:30pm at Open Eye Figure Theater in Minneapolis. Ticket info info here.

“Thuy Trinh does not get her mother, the 9th grade, or how to speak Vietnamese. None of this stops her from trying to contact her uncle Vân, who, by the way, is dead. Later, she finds herself in a graveyard talking to the wrong ghost, but vows to help him find out who he once was, because what else does she have to do? Come follow them on this journey as they work to uncover difficult truths, fight demons, and heal old wounds. Using tabletop and shadow puppetry this show uses humor to explore the dark nature of loss and intergenerational trauma. Content Advisory: References death and substance abuse.”

Check it out if this interests you! More info here.

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DIALOG EDIT + MIX: AUGSBURG COLLEGE SESQUICENTENNIAL

Junior Birdman Audio was pleased to provide dialog edit and mix for a video celebrating Augsburg College’s Sesquicentennial (150 years!). Walk the Moon Media shot poet and spoken word artist Donte Collins, a 2018 Augsburg graduate, performing multiple takes of the same poem in several different locations with varying acoustics, indoors and outdoors. The crucial question was whether all the dialog was usable, or if we’d need to ADR some of it. I managed to salvage all the audio takes to everyone’s satisfaction, and I even played around with location specificity a bit-- pushing the different acoustic properties of different spaces slightly, while maintaining a constant thread of verbiage that the audience could follow. A challenging but super fun project— and the finished product premiered to a standing ovation of Augsburg alumni during their 150th gala, I’m told.

MORE WORK BY MIKE HALLENBECK FOR CORPORATE VIDEO

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RELAXING YULE LOG-- BUT IT'S ALL GUITARS

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