Actors Equity showcase: "A Streetcar Named Desire" (2005)
The Actors Theatre of Minnesota: Driving Miss Daisy (2004)
Jill Bernard: Medea Medea (2003), US/ Canada Improv Festival showcases
The Directors Theater, 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: Kid-Simple (2006), A Corner of the World (2005)
Fifty Foot Penguin Theater: 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: "Chopsticks, Band-Aids, and Johnny Unitas" (2006)
Gremlin Theatre: Wait Until Dark (2005), Blithe Spirit (2004)
Guthrie Theater/ University of Minnesota Actor Training Program, sound designer for 2004- 2006 projects
Illusion Theater: American Klepto (2006), Murderers (2005), Turn of the Screw, No Distance Between Us (1998)
The Ministry of Cultural Warfare: The Vanek Trilogy (2004), Industrials, The Unbearable Lightness of Being American (2003), Sure Thing, Urbane Legends (2002), Wasp (2001)
Outward Spiral Theatre Company: 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: Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Front Page (2004), Buried Child, The House of Yes, A Few Good Men (2003)
"Soulless, Bloodsucking Lawyers" (musical) (2004)
Starting Gate Productions: Man Saved By Condiments (2005), Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (2004), Little Murders (2003)
Theater in the Round: The Cherry Orchard (2004)
Torch Theater: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Educating Rita (2006), The Miracle Worker (2006 remount, 2005)
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
Mike Hallenbeck
Sound artist
Is it live... or is it Hallenbeck?
Hallenbeck's audio work has appeared in theatrical productions and installations in Minneapolis, Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, Toronto, Berlin, and Burgos (Spain). He has collaborated with such sound artists as Bryce Beverlin, Viv Corringham, and Michelle Nagai (and perhaps other individuals with four-syllable names), as well as author Nick Flynn. His contribution to interspecies.com's "Belly of the Whale" project, wherein composers create audio works derived from the sounds of marine life, has been featured alongside that of Scanner and Merzbow at the Japan Expo and the Berlin Liquidrom. Hallenbeck's audio work has been profiled by City Pages and Minnesota Public Radio.
Experience as a composer, arranger, performer, engineer, and producer with a multitude of music projects (Mike Merz & the Can o' Worms, Pimentos for Gus, Telephone, Lori Wray), has engendered a facility with a wide variety of instrumentation as well as with the production process itself as a mode of composing and manipulating sound. Hence the smooth execution of assignments ranging from a lounge rendition of "Ride of the Valkyries" to a techno remix of the "I Like Ike" presidential campaign song.
In addition to his work for hire, Hallenbeck indulges independent sonic experiments using field recordings, electronically generated sounds, and any other audio source material that can find its way into a mix. Much of this work surfaces in the "musique plastique" project he calls Archive.
He won't work for free, though various bribes and barter sometimes prove effective.
Commission: "No_Name [ Frequency + Repetition ]" by Monika Bravo at Centro De Arte Caja De Burgos in Burgos, Spain, June 2005. Based on the I Ching, the installation features 64 touch-screen video loops with video footage by Ms. Bravo and soundtracks by Mike Hallenbeck, ranging from chiming tones to field recordings to spatial ambience. A version of this installation will be available on the web eventually.
"Dolphinator" (a composition derived entirely from sounds generated by dolphins) featured as part of interspecies.com's Belly of the Whale project, 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. (2005/ ongoing)
Contributing artist, "Rock's Role: After Ryoanji" group sound art exhibition at Art in General, New York City, May 15 to July 3, 2004
Contributing artist: "One", outdoor sound installation by the Experimental Music Collective, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Tuesday April 20, 2004. An event in honor of the Dalai Lama's visit to Vancouver, integrating Tibetan singing bowls and electronic audio.
Contributing artist, 50th anniversary celebration of John Cage's "Williams Mix" at Engine 27 Gallery, NYC, 2003
"Brown Line At Damen" at Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, 2003
Various work featured on the "Rock's Role: After Ryoanji" CD release (see "Selected Installations"), 2004
"Trappr Keepr" featured on "Quotidian Assemblages: Volume 3" compilation of music extrapolated from field recordings, 2004
"Guggenheim" featured on "Phonography.org #4" compilation of field recordings, 2003
"Spotter" featured on "Locations Vol. 2" compilation of music extrapolated from field recordings, 2003
Contributor, Twin Cities sound index for the Design Institute at the University of Minnesota