Sunday night activities: Ripping CDs to computer and checking the 4 new Discman units I bought untested (one has the worst case of battery corrosion in any piece of equipment I've ever seen). #cdsunday

After quite a while without, I finally get a new license for the music player Swinsian and have now begun digging into the old music collection harddrive. A fair few things on there I've missed. Contemplating ripping my entire CD collection - and contemplating getting a dedicated DAP (iPod died).

Game Audio Denmark is now on Bluesky. Really looking forward to Schmid's talk on Ancient Game Audio. See you at the Unity offices in Copenhagen on the 21st of January 2026. #gameaudio

I waited all day to try out adding free jazz to the combat in a Soulslike game. Imagine it with a different game world and aesthetic. But still imagine. Butchered version of Newfoundland by AMM. #gameaudio

‪If you're around Copenhagen on the 21st of January 2026, come by the Unity offices and hear the lovely Jakob Schmid @schmid.dk talk about ancient #gameaudio. Custom audio chips, software synthesis, discrete hardware components, cassette tapes and more Sign up here www.meetup.com/game-audio-p...

You didn't spend time during your holiday break doing a mumbling voice system for bad banjo jokes? Why not? www.youtube.com/watch?v=suLr... #gameaudio

HOPEFULLY NEXT YEAR. 3780 seconds long. See you all in 2026. Listen at: marchasselbalch.bandcamp.com/album/hopefu...

"Create a little every day, without hope, without despair". www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg3v...

Snippet of what's to come. Perhaps.

Obligatory "it's here" photo. Lovely thing. Cheers @5d3m.bsky.social and @frozenreeds.com

SpecMF. Workout in Bitwig's Grid. 02122025.

The grand tower of beeps.

Video of my performance in Milano for the Second Sleep showcase earlier this month is now online. Captured by Ursss. Full video at: www.ursss.com/2025/11/marc...

New sequencer looks hellish.

Shot from the middle of the Marantz cassette beltchange session. It helped a ton. Still wonky. But now I at least have rudimentary tape delay again.

Soundtrack to reading this is Pan Sonic.

Very rare italian modular system.

Sitting among boxes, waiting to fly the dual-wielding Discman setup out to Milano on November 8th for the Second Sleep showcase.

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We're moving and I'm putting the CD collection in boxes. I found these lodged in with the Kraftwerk CDs. Probably from around 2013-14.

This post is brought to you by the spirit of the Mark Fell @frozenreeds.com Bandcamp listening party happening in about 30 minutes. frozenreeds.bandcamp.com/album/psychi...

Today I was reminded of the wonderful label, Co-Dependent, which is now seemingly defunct (?). I released four smaller, digital releases for them. Listen at: co-dependent.bandcamp.com Video is short snippets from the four releases.

Wind in trees from a single houseplant (and Supercollider). www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uhX... #gameaudio

I'll be playing at the Second Sleep showcase at the Casa degli Artisti in Milano on November 8th. If you're around, come out. My luggage will consist of tapes, discman and laptop. Line up: Valerio Tricoli Alice Kemp Mario de Vega Carlos Casas Marc Hasselbalch Massimo Carozzi

"The Animal", new album out by Blue Lake. Absolutely wonderful thing. bluelake1.bandcamp.com/album/the-an...

TIMEPARK. Assembled from older material from 2012 to about 2017. Some in new contexts, some mostly forgotten. Powered by the urge for archiving. Listen at: marchasselbalch.bandcamp.com/album/timepark

THE SUNNY SIDE OF HELL. 33'45'' Listen at: marchasselbalch.bandcamp.com/album/the-su...

An experiment from a few months ago, trying to record gestural wind gusts with a handheld DC motor and a piece of fabric attached to the motor shaft. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNR7...

MEGAMIX. Tidal > rerouting software > Supercollider

To the #ffmpeg and ffprobe users: What 'interesting' data can be extracted from a single video frame? I'm toying with the idea of extracting a data from every frame of a video, exporting as CSV file and using that as input data for a synthesis or audio processing setup in Supercollider.

I forgot Tidal wasn't Bandcamp for a second and was annoyed the detroit electro track I wanted to listen to was removed and replaced with pineal gland openers. rotterhaguerecords.bandcamp.com/track/activa...

I finally got around to play 'Miniatures' by @othertales.bsky.social . Short but lovely experience. Just what the doctor ordered. Worth your time. store.steampowered.com/app/2428840/... #gameaudio

Hard agree. A deep rabbithole of endlessly wonderful work.

OFFSHOOT. Assorted things from around the way. Listen at: marchasselbalch.bandcamp.com/album/offshoot

Xynthii by @mphonic.bsky.social is back in updated form. In 2019 I bought a 2002 Powerbook to run the original from 2006. Time warp. Now I don't have to anymore. Runs in Supercollider this time around.

Mangling glitches into more glitchy mess with a 90's rack sampler and Max.

Digitakt's song mode is boatloads of fun for mangling patterns.

For those none-to-few who are wondering if the gritty percussion hits in Gescom's Keynell 2 are sampled from the OG Doom door opening SFX, then the answer is: no. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KoX...

Klaxon.

Little Nightmares 2 audio redesign using my ReaperToWwise tool. #gameaudio #sounddesign

Peterlin > Supercollider > SDD1200. Last section is the rungler output triggering the SDD1200's hold. 03082025.

Klaxon.

Supercollider through a leslie speaker.

Anyone know of ways to incorporate a Wacom tablet in Reaper *natively*? As in, does not rely on external software to translate it into, say, MIDI CC or OSC? I'd love to write a script that handles this natively in Reaper and allow me to map X, Y and pen pressue to plugin params. #reaperdaw

Re-releasing my 'Excited Objects' library at ASoundEffect. Previously available as pay-what-you-want, but realized I might be devaluing my own, my peers' and my friends' work in the process, even if it was originally done in the spirit of community. www.asoundeffect.com/sound-librar... #gameaudio

Miniature foley pit for a very small character. Dry dirt from the balcony plants. #gameaudio

In 2023 I released "Howdy Maestro", which I just listened to again. Quite happy with how it turned out in retrospect. Bandcamp codes: agrf-vq9s 6k4v-jpem unp7-k2rg va6d-glhu 96ys-ujap n3ue-e632 ma5g-3ylh b96z-cuv5 w33u-hp6r Redeem at: marchasselbalch.bandcamp.com/yum

Hunting for wind-like tones for a personal #gameaudio project. Dropping a mic down the waste chute didn't quite do the job. But it was fun. youtu.be/LTvnE0dnSmQ

"We have budget Giacinto Scelsi at home" www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrX8...

New tape out on Kaos og Stjernen. Buy and listen at: kaosogstjernen.bandcamp.com/album/im-goi...