Marc Hasselbalch

We all are. But god damn, our tricks are good.

YouTube video by Marc Hasselbalch AUDIO DIARY – March 8th 2026

Audio diary, March 8th 2026.

Motors on guitar and bass.
Amongst other things.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndK-...

Alex and I will host an online #gameaudio meetup over at the Game Audio Denmark Discord server on Wednesday 11th, 19.00 CEST.
We start out light, but hope to bring presentations and interesting conversations down the line.

Invite link is in the original post.

See you there.

One of my favourite Drumm droners.
Maybe tied with The Sea Wins.
I wonder if the phone has enough Drumm droners on it.

SpecMF - 22 Quit.
Recorded at home in December 2025.

Listen and buy at: spectralmotherfucker.bandcamp.com/album/22-quit

GIDDY WITH SLUMBER.
Recorded in the meantime in February 2026.

1. Smouldering Giddiness 08:23
2. Dense Giddiness 06:53
3. Slumbering Giddiness 14:44

Listen at:
marchasselbalch.bandcamp.com/album/giddy-...

Game Audio Playthrough #47 - LEGO Voyagers, Thu, Feb 26, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup 🏆**Winner of the Best Audio award at SpilPrisen 2026 – LEGO Voyagers** 🏆 We are proud to present a game audio playthrough featuring the award-winning sound design of LEGO

Next Game Audio Playthrough event will be with Adam Zacho, sound designer on LEGO Voyagers, which just won the Best Audio award at SpilPrisen 2026.

The event will take place on February 26th 2026 at Vesterbrogade 19 in Copenhagen.

Sign up at: www.meetup.com/game-audio-p...

#dkgame #gameaudio

Lovely to see that people are finding my ReaperToWwise tool worth their time.
Cheers to Romain.

YouTube video by Marc Hasselbalch Resonant Observation #1: Derek Bailey inside a glass head

Resonant Observation #1: Derek Bailey inside a glass head.

What if Bailey's guitar playing came from inside a glass head? Only one way to find out.

Derek Bailey - "Niigata Snow".

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-luz...

A little release thing for three new CD releases at Inferno bar in Copenhagen, which will, according to BIN/Jonas Olesen, "NEVER be released digitally".
CD glitches and manipulations.
Check Jonas' custom-printed t-shirt.
The only bar I've been to that played Mika Vanio as background music.

Ripping CDs and found this ECM disc I had almost forgotten about. Well worth your time.

A Reddit thread titled "Anyone still use a Discman??" on the subreddit "Ask old people".

Sorry, I just screenshotted this and couldn't save it until #cdfriday

Preliminary test recordings for what might become a library of function generator tones and textures.
Recorded at 192khz with intensely beautiful spectrograms as a byproduct.

YouTube video by Marc Hasselbalch Smartphone-controlled Feedback Loop

Smartphone sensor data sent as OSC to computer over local network, read by Lua script, controls params for Reaper feedback loop.

#gameaudio

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO9W...

Utterly fantastic. Could use a Max Eastley-type boxset of this in various settings and spaces.

Flashback

YouTube video by Marc Hasselbalch Recursive Outboard Processing

A continuation of my foray into recursive processing, this time using outboard gear and a custom Reaper script to automate the process.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8wl...

#gameaudio #sounddesign

Portable transducer prototype from discarded Bluetooth speaker.

Held together by duct tape and equal parts frustration and excitement.

(4/4) So now I plan to give it all back to the original artists. Luckily I know a few of them, but some are a little mystery. So time to do some research.

(3/4) I had a contact at the library, they helped me set up the listening event, gave me access to the basement and allowed me to take home a stack of things for me to pick something from. This person has since stopped working at the library and I never got to return the borrowed things.

(2/4) A wonderful concept, I found so much oddball music this way back then. But the agreement meant the artists couldn't get the releases back and the libraries couldn't sell the items off, so with the Demotek gone, the releases were left in the basement to rot.

(1/4) In 2023 I hosted a night of music in a local Copenhagen library, dedicated to what I was allowed to find at the basement in the old "Demoteket" category, a now-defunct 'underground library' where local artists could donate releases to be put alongside regular library items.

Say I want to buy a digital copy of Guy Somberg's Game Audio Programming 5 book, how do I even do that if it's not a Kindle edition? I'm not too well-versed in ebook formats and standards, but it starts to seem like "just getting the PDF" is simply not possible.

#gameaudio

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

Lovely.
I apparently bought a license for Swinsian 2 in 2016. Version 2 stopped working, so I updated now.

Screenshot of music playing in Swinsian music app

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...

Man kan håbe.