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mcad_faculty_union @mcad-faculty-union.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Help MCAD faculty win a fair contract! Read and sign act.seiu.org/a/mcad-petit..., then let's rally and deliver our petition!

Image of a poster, which has comic art and text at the top, which reads, "Help mcad faculty win a fair contract!" Beneath the text, a comic panel shows someone in a suite saying, "hmmm," while reading a piece of paper with from mcad faculty, to mcad admin written on it. A comic panel to the right whos the same suit-wearing folk asking, "huh?" while a large speech bubble overlaps from beneath the panel, containing the words, "pay us fairly!" More speech bubbles next to the first contain the words, "respect us!" and "give us a voice!" A long document of signatures trails from beneath the speech bubbles, supported by folks in a crowd. More text reads, "faculty, staff, friends, family, members in community, show them we care! Read and sign here," followed by an arrow pointing to a qr code for a petition. Beneath the qr code the text continues with, " and share! Then, let's rally and deliver our petition! Straight to the president!" The date October 6th, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, and location, Washburn Fair Oaks Park, are printed in the lower left.

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When I was but a lad, I bumped this an awful lot to ring in the spooky season.

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m honored by inclusion on the Hub & Spoke Presents podcast’s “Sounds Like America, Vol 2” collection of audio postcards from across the US. The quickest way to find it is to look up Hub & Spoke Presents in your podcast app of choice, and seek out the Sept 17th episode... <more>

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026

Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’m chock full of animated goodness– you might say I’ve been reanimated– by a weekend of Minnanimate 2026. Saw lots of great shorts and attended a drawing workshop by guest of honor Sishir Bommakanti... [more]

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 04/09/2026

We’ve teamed up with Better World Books for a brand new initiative, “For the Love of Books.” By donating to the Internet Archive through October 31, your gift will go towards supporting literacy and preservation 📚❤️ Make your donation here: donate.archive.org/campaign/838...

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

When did "quickstart" become one word? What earthly purpose does that serve?

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Think you can escape highbrow culture by going to the Minnesota State Fair? Think again! Presented by Square Lake Film and Music Festival, MN FIlms at the Fair features five nights of Minnesota-made film and animation at the 2026 Minnesota State Fair on August 28, 29, and September 4-6. <more>

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Either Neil Young "After the Gold Rush" or Dire Straits "Making Movies". Maybe I bought them both together via Columbia House? Don't remember.

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Pia-Pekka Utö-Dysto @pia-utodysto.eurosky.social · 09/08/2026

Hilarious. This musical theme was special, so special that it spread like a virus. The Gen Alpha Melody.

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The Gen Alpha Melody

YouTube video by Carl E. Martin

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“Echoes in the Night: The Search for Jacob Wetterling”, Chris Newberry’s feature documentary sound edited and mixed by yours truly, is screening all over Minnesota these days. In the Twin Cities, it’ll play at @mspiff.bsky.social’s Main Cinema from August 28 to September 3rd.

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Listening and taking notes on demos I’ve received for a couple of singer-songwriter projects I’ll be producing for other artists soon. It’s exciting to hear what I’ll be helping to bring into the world– figuring out where I can make suggestions... <more>

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

ABC’s recent 20/20 episode “Where is Jacob?” offered some behind the scenes insight into the making of Chris Newberry’s feature documentary “Echoes in the Night: The Search for Jacob Wetterling”, for which Cool Cat Audio provided sound edit and mix a few months back. <more>

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Isolation of my sound effects and music layers + playback of full mix w/ voiceover by Sudarsna Mukund on the Sishir Bommakanti-directed intro to Hellavision's "Web 5000" #animation anthology. <more>

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

After a two-year festival run, I’m pleased to be able to share this short online. I had a lot of fun working with this team to make it happen. Link to the film is in the comments. “The Glasses” is a comedy/ drama co-directed by Sarah Smith and Frances Chewning... <more>

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Was texting a friend that "I do think streaming has had some negative effects", but accidentally typed "streaking" instead.

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Imagining an alternate timeline for the life of Jimi Hendrix, had he survived. I envision collaborations with Miles Davis, Sly Stone, Public Enemy...

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

One more weekend of "Inhuman"! For ticket info, see skewedvisions dot org.

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A nice moment I safeguarded while mixing Comrade Comrade’s song “Livin Life with You”. Some nice harmonic interplay between vocalists Matt Gladue and Anna George Meek with guitarist Aaron Langton.

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

"Depending on which chatbot you ask, Elias Thorne might be a clockmaker, a lighthouse keeper, or a librarian. But if you ask ChatGPT or any of the other popular large language models to tell you a story, there’s a good chance he’ll appear, unbidden."

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Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why

LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon bo...

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Instructor Adam Johnson recently invited me to review the portfolios of Narrative Video Production students at Century College. You can see my bald head near the center of this photo (taken by Johnson). <more>

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I have to say I'm confused about how often audio software offers the option for output to be "high quality". When would I not want that to be the case?

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

For the past couple of years I’ve been sporadically collaborating with a team of brilliant folks led by the indefatigable Charles Capmbell to assemble a movement performance work on behalf of Skewed Visions... <more>

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Produced/ mixed by Mike Hallenbeck at Cool Cat Audio!

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I recently edited some audio for a vignette by aerialist/ choreographer Jolie Meshbesher, presented at Ground Zero nightclub as part of a Dragon's Lair Performing Arts showcase.

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Mike Barthel @mikebarthelauthor.com · 14/05/2026

Incredible

Post from r/audioengineering
Why there's a resonance at 15.5kHz in Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer?
It's around -70dB, so not audible I think.
As far as I know its a great mix and master, so I'm curious about why is it there, and why they leave it in there. Also if my eyes aren't deceiving me, it goes throughout the song. I know, its not a big deal at all, I'm just asking for if anyone has an idea about it
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There was likely a CRT TV on in the studio. It was recorded in England, so PAL, which means a flyback transformer operating at 15.625kHz.

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I’ve recently completed my first semester teaching Intro to Sound at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. I’ll be back in the fall. In the meantime, it’s been a pleasure to share my excitement about audio with some fine young minds. <more>

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The Minneapolis- St Paul International Film Festival was a real treat a couple weeks back. I had the pleasure of witnessing three documentaries I’d helped out on with audio post, a world premiere in one case. <more>

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Sishir Bommakanti’s “Web 5000.0” intro animation, featuring an original musical score and sound design by Cool Cat Audio, will screen as part of the @pictoplasma.bsky.social Berlin Conference of Contemporary Art from May 7-10, 2026.

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The audio postproduction work of Cool Cat Audio will feature in three documentary films screening at this year’s Minneapolis- St Paul International Film Festival, which runs from April 8th through 19th at The Main Cinema in Minneapolis.

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Wonderful online visit from Dr. John Kannenberg, who dropped by to give a guided tour of the sonic marvel that is the Museum of Portable Sound to both myself and students in the Intro to Sound class I’ve been teaching at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. <more>

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Heart full of films after a sold-out screening of experimental work curated by Cellular Cinema, including the Hellavision Web 5000 intro... <more>

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

For real this time, Sishir Bommakanti’s intro to the Hellavision “Web 5000.0” animation anthology, featuring voiceover engineering, original music, sound design, and mix by Cool Cat Audio, appears as part of Cellular Cinema at Bryant Lake Bowl Theater, rescheduled for Sunday March 8th at 7 PM!

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Excited to share that the short documentary “Dearly Beloved” by Australian filmmaker E.C. Balazs, featuring audio post production by Cool Cat Audio, will screen at Atlanta Documentary Film Festival on March 22nd at 5 pm.

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Today I got on a Google meet with someone, and we were having audio problems (I couldn't hear her), and the solution was for her to move her laptop to another room. Pretty sure she was using WiFi. This makes no sense to me as an audio fix. Anyone know what I'm missing?

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Super psyched that the UK’s Wire magazine, a preeminent publication in the realm of experimental sonics, recently reviewed John Kannenberg’s “A Brief History of Sound Recording”-- presented by Dr. Kannenberg’s Museum of Portable Sound, and in which I played a teeny role... <more>

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10 Items or Fewer @10orfewer.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Dan Gaarder, the AM Rocker himself, stopped by my studio Cool Cat Audio at 10 am last week to lay down some 12-string acoustic guitar on the country Christmas song I wrote for 10 Items or Fewer. If we’re lucky, he’ll be singing lead on it as well!

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Is there something about being a K-pop demon hunter that's superior to being, say, just a regular demon hunter? The K-pop ones do seem to be more in demand, I have to say.

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

It’s been a pleasure to master this release by Tomahawk, WI-based Jaron Childs. Hear it here: jaronchilds.bandcamp.com/track/i-saw-...

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I Saw Jack in the Pulpit, by Jaron Childs

track by Jaron Childs

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Grateful that a musical composition of mine recently received a placement on CBS Sports’ World Series of Poker. It’s my hope that the cue accompanied at least one touchdown made by the players. Let’s go Lynx!

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Some more festival screenings of “The Pic”, a comedy short written, directed by, and starring Frances Chewning and featuring #sounddesign and mix by yours truly at Cool Cat Audio. <more>

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10 Items or Fewer @10orfewer.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Some images from recent tracking on Rhiannon’s next Mama Faerie project, which she photographed from inside the booth at Cool Cat Audio. <more>

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The Hellavision Television Web 5000.0 intro, directed by Sishir Bommakanti and featuring sound design and original music by yours truly, continues its theatrical rampage this week at Cellular Cinema, Thursday Jan 8th, 7 pm at the Bryant Lake Bowl Theater. <more>

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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Such odd synchronicity that the button beeps on my microwave (electronically generated) are exactly one octave above the (mechanical) drone of the machine as it... microwaves. That couldn't be on purpose, could it? I doubt it.

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