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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻

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Sound + music for media. Sound edit/ design, audio restoration, VO, custom music, ADR + final mix for arts and commerce. Mix engineering + mastering for composers, songwriters, and more. Posts by (bald) studio head Mike Hallenbeck. coolcataudio.com

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 4d

Here we’re running through her percussion arsenal to collect impacts and textures from assorted drums, shakers, and metals. This particular instrument is known, I believe, as a tongue drum. <end>

Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 4d

Previously we did a whole session of a capella recordings where she improvised breaths and pitches that spanned about the entire gamut of what the human voice can do. <more>

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 4d

Back in the studio at Cool Cat Audio, tracking some sounds for Rhinannon’s next Mama Faerie project. Photo by the artist. <more>

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks to Kevin McLaughlin for accompanying me to this occasion, and for snapping the pic of me as well!

Screenings are still coming up in Brooklyn, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and (I believe) elsewhere. Check hellavisiontelevision.com for details!

Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 9d

Curator Sishir Bommakanti directed the intro segment– for which Cool Cat Audio provided original music, sound design, and mix– and was kind enough to invite voice artist Sudarsna Mukund and myself up front during the intro. <more>

Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks to Hellavision Television for an enjoyable viewing of “Web 5000.0” at The Main Cinema in Minneapolis last night. This anthology of #animation about the future of the Internet is hilarious, innovative, insightful, bewildering, terrifying, and plenty more besides.

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 11d

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Hellavision Television Presents: WEB 5000.0 - MSP Film

Wednesday, October 15 at 7:00 PM ABOUT THE PROGRAM An episode about the Maximal Speculative Future of The Internet. Created by Cadmiumcoffee. Hellavision Television Network is an ongoing community ani...

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 11d

Cool Cat Audio provided original music, sound design, and final mix for Bommakanti’s intro segment (a still from which constitutes the image shown here).

Ticket link and more info in comments.

Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 11d

Tonight in Minneapolis! Hellavision Television’s “Web 5000.0” arrives in Minneapolis at The Main Cinema on Wed October 15th at 7pm. Enjoy the final moments of the internet through the lens of over 80 artists in this 90 minute maximalist anthology directed by Sishir Bommakanti. <more>

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 16d

Tickets for the Minneapolis show: prod3.agileticketing.net/websales/pag...

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 16d

, and final mix for the intro (still frame from Sishir Bommakanti’s #animation featured above), which introduces a 90-minute anthology of animated content by over 80 artists.

Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 16d

and showings for London, Toronto and Brooklyn have been added as well. See hellavisiontelevision.com for details.

Speculative Future of The Internet”. My studio Cool Cat Audio provided voiceover engineering, an original musical score, sound design...

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 16d

New dates unlocked for Hellavision Television’s “Web 5000.0” tour! The animation anthology screens in Minneapolis on Wednesday October 15th, 7 pm at The Main Cinema-- ticket link in comments... <more>

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 18d

Trailer for "The Story of the Cricket Queen": vimeo.com/1098060874?f...

The Story of The Cricket Queen Trailer

The “Story of The Cricket Queen” uses analog film techniques to examine digital relationships.

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 18d

eventually recruiting my cats to vocalize profusely and loudly chew their dinner in service of the project as well.

I’m looking forward to everyone getting the opportunity to check out this project as it makes its way through the festival circuit. Enjoy! <end>

Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 18d

to explore the intersection between that multiverse of sensibilities and the disheveled chaos of her own visual aesthetic, which this time consists of Super 8 footage with overlaid hand-drawn animation. I teased out the nuances of sonic intimacy wherever I could find them... <more>

Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 18d

and performance, using the filmmaker as the subject but also turning the camera on strangers, celebrities, and inanimate but still human figures."

This project was a wild and woolly journey, as Peracchio gave me the notion of ASMR audio as a springboard and cut me loose... <more>

Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 18d

as part of their Avant-Garde and Expanded Shorts program.

The director describes "The Story of the Cricket Queen" as "a survey of digital culture seen through the lens of someone who is both a participant and an observer. The film engages with the slippery morality of online voyeurism... <more>

Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 18d

Do I know anyone in Santa Cruz? I doubt it. But if I’m mistaken, be advised that Natalie Peracchio’s new short film “The Story of the Cricket Queen”, featuring original music, sound design and mix by yours truly, screens this coming Thursday and Friday... <more>

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10 Items or Boo-er! 🎃 👻 💀 @10orfewer.bsky.social · 25d

Accordion overdubs at Cool Cat Audio on the upcoming 10 Items or Fewer album with the maestro himself, Jon Duncan!

Two things I noticed after this session:

1. Making good music happen with good people has a way of lifting one’s spirits, a boon in times like these. <more>

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 26d

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HELLAVISION TELEVISION presents WEB 5000.0! – A Community Animation Project

Hellavision Television Network, an ongoing community animation project, explores the Maximal Speculative Future of The Internet!

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 26d

The first screening of “Web 5000” will take place Sunday October 5th at the Philosophical Research Society at 3910 Los Feli Boulevard in Los Angeles at 7:30 PM. Stay tuned for more screening dates as the collection wends its way on a world tour.

Ticket link in comments. <more>

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 26d

Cool Cat Audio provided voiceover engineering, an original musical score, sound design, and final mix for the piece (still featured here), which introduces a 90-minute anthology of animated content by over 80 artists. <more>

Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 26d

I recently collaborated with animator Sishir Bommakanti and voice artist Sudarsna Mukund on the intro to Hellavision Television’s “Web 5000”, an ongoing community animation project that explores “the Maximal Speculative Future of The Internet”. <more>

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10 Items or Boo-er! 🎃 👻 💀 @10orfewer.bsky.social · Sep 23

Vocal recording for the new 10 Items or Fewer album continues at @coolcataudio.bsky.social! Harmony singer Rhiannon Fiskradatz took these shots in the booth the other day.

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