BROADCAST MUSIC PLACEMENT: "THE BIG BANG'S BIGGEST BANGS"

A musical composition of mine recently placed on a British TV show called “The Big Bang’s Biggest Bangs”, wherein several people (who I imagine are celebrities over there, or perhaps journalists, or both?) talk about their favorite moments on the TV show “The Big Bang Theory”. I’ve seen “Big Bang Theory” before, so I have more context for this placement than I usually do. Because I’m aware of an invention called television that features shows.

Production music by Mike Hallenbeck

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ORIGINAL MUSIC PLACEMENTS: RTL TELEVISION, GERMANY

My original musical composition “Pop Rock”, from the production music album “Simple & Playful: Quirky Electro-Pop” that I wrote for the Primary library, has recently scored six rapid-fire placements on RTL Television, the largest private TV network in Germany. One of the shows featuring the track is called “Punkt 12: Das RTL-Mittagsjournal”— which, defying more wacky expectations, translates to “Item 12: The RTL Lunch Journal”. All of which works just fine for me. After all, lunch needs a journal just like anything else, does it not?

More production music by Mike Hallenbeck

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KEEP DULUTH CLEAN: CUSTOM MUSIC, SOUND EDIT + MIX FOR PSA

Duluth-based animator Brian Barber brought me aboard to compose original music, edit sound and mix this PSA for the Keep Duluth Clean project, a collaboration between Loll Designs and Flint Group. I cooked up an original music track (more on that below) and augmented Brian’s sound effects with some of my own— for the pop cans thrown into the waste basket, I eventually wound up recording an aluminum can bouncing off the two-wheel cart in my storage space, since (surprisingly) I couldn’t find the right kind of metal-on-metal impact in my library. Oh, and the guy yelling “Ain’t that the truth!” toward the beginning is me.

Below: a music-only rendition of the project. The creative direction asked for bossa nova— Esquivel came up— but the reference tracks provided were things like Henry Mancini’s “The Baby Elephant Walk” and “Why Wait” by Perez Prado, so I figured we wanted something kitschy that would match the whimsy of Barber’s characters and settings, but a bit more “square” than Esquivel per se.

A couple of minor revisions on both the audio and visual ends, and we were good to go. A quick and easy project. Good times.

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More music + sound by Mike Hallenbeck for animation

More work by Mike Hallenbeck for corporate video

More work by Mike Hallenbeck for TV spots

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