MUSIC REEL : ID/ BRANDING : Original music composed for campaigns to build a distinctive identity for clients. Includes score for titles, stingers and motion graphics.

Los Angeles production company Yes Equals Yes used a couple of my musical accents (at the very beginning and at :29, for those of you keeping score at home) in this spot.

FOLEY / SFX REEL : work for live action and animation pieces

Mike Hallenbeck
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NEWS : RECENT WORK
UPDATED MARCH 2012

HOLY MOLY Foley and sound design for animation. Augsburg Fortress Publishers launches a new DVD product line to tie in with specialized Sunday school and youth group curriculum. Watch a cartoon!

BLUE HEAVEN Original music for dance: acoustic folk, ethereal ambient and searing noise. Choreographer Lisa Conlin's show played to standing ovations in February and March of 2012. Hear samples

MIKE HALLENBECK NAMED 2011 "BEST THEATER COMPOSER" in the Twin Cities' Lavender Magazine for original music on Laura Holway's "I Like You" and Joking Envelope's "Sexy Librarian: File Under Rock Musical" Read article

SONIC SCOOP Audio work on two episodes of the "Inside Sessions" online video series, co-produced by NYC's SonicScoop.com-- an online hub serving the creative, technical and business connections for NYC's music and sound community. Sponsors included Avid and Sound Toys; duties included original music, sound design for motion graphics, and post mix. Video

XX / XY / XO Collaborative movement/ sound piece with choreographer/ dancer Megan Mayer, part of the program preceding the premiere of Kevin Obsatz and Elliott Durko Lynch's short film "Empire Builder" (video coming soon)

EVERLAST / YES EQUALS YES Original musical accents placed in a verite spot by Los Angeles production company Yes Equals Yes. Video

RE:FORM ANCESTORS (OLD TESTAMENT) DVD Sound and music for animation. Foley arts, recording of narration and character voices, original music composition, and final mix for the animation collection "Reform: Ancestors (Old Testament)", a DVD of Biblical stories from the Sparkhouse line at Augsburg Fortress Press. See video of original music and Foley/ SFX

Original music for "re:form Ancestors" DVD of Old Testament stories by Sparkhouse/ Augsburg Fortress Press

Original music for I LIKE YOU, a multi-discimplinary movement piece by Laura Holway

SOUND SPANDREL: Performance installation debuts at the Science Museum of Minnesota