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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 1d

, 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.

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 1d

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...

Hellavision Television Network

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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>

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 3d

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>

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 3d

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>

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 3d

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>

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 10d

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 · 11d

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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 · 11d

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 · 11d

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>

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

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 · 18d

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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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 23d

by building on what we already know to achieve new insight. If we learn how to learn and keep using the tools, then, as a professor of mine once said, “our confusion will never be complete.”

Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 23d

Celebrating the conclusion of another Sound Design for Film class at Film North. As an educator, I like to proceed from the principle that we learn not by absorbing new information, but... <more>

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

Paging @portablesound.bsky.social

MP3 players are making a comeback – I tested 15 to find the best | Gadgets - United Kingdom News Beep

An MP3 player? In 2025? Am I going to be covering Betamax and MiniDisc players next?

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Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social · Sep 10

i don't know what the source of this video is but I love it

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

What if it was really Dave Alvin and the Chipmunks?

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · Sep 3

If you find yourself watching the Disney+ documentary “Meet the Pickles”, about the making of the animated series “Win or Lose”, 12 minutes in or so (during the video game montage) you’ll hear some music by yours truly!

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · Aug 27

...and executed final mix for the audio portion of the project— produced by the State of Minnesota, Department of Natural Resources, in collaboration with 5 by 5 Design. Thanks to Andrew Hunter for these photos.

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · Aug 27

If you’re at the MN State Fair this year, you may hear the sound design of Cool Cat Audio when you peruse this DNR installation on fire safety. I engineered voiceover, edited interview audio, implemented sound effects... <more>

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) 🐈‍⬛🎃👻 @coolcataudio.bsky.social · Aug 19

Some BTS footage in the studio of voiceover recording for an upcoming #animation project by Sishir Bommakanti. On the mic is performer Sudarsna Mukund. Also visible: my bald head.

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