In the beginning, there was sound…A long, long time ago, in a forest tucked deep in the wood, there was a band of men, joined together in purpose…to create the most powerful, emotional, visceral music to empower the art of storytelling…
This site uncovers the deep trove of tracks,undiscovered… until now. This is 300 Monks – Visionary Music.
Since 2004, 300 Monks has provided high quality soundtracks that sell your story. Our ciients include leading filmmakers, ad agencies. marketers, animators and web designers all over the world.
We provide royalty free music, custom soundtracks, audio-brand consulting and music licensing to advertisers, agencies, independent filmmakers and designers. By tapping a virtual network of talent located all across the globe with the latest technology, we give you the exact creative you need…
Custom songs, or film scores can be placed with exactly the right composer for the job, no matter where they happen to reside. Royalty free production music doesn’t have to be wallpaper but could actually have depth, cinematic quality, and an inherent structure that lifts your story. Broadcast music can be found instantly via search and downloaded with an emailed license within moments. And audio branding can be lifted to the same levels of visual branding.
Head Monk/Founder and Composer Andrew Ingkavet’s unique background as former big agency Creative Director and Film Composer/Music Producer enables him to speak the vocabulary of both visual + audio, business + marketing and Creative + Account. With a global network of artists, musicians, composers, producers and sound designers, 300 Monks is unique in focus, smarts and executional capabilities. He can help you with your audio brand strategy and more.
What is Audio Branding?
The short answer: the aural equivalent of visual branding. Back in the early 1900′s, not everyone knew the power of visual branding. They would package their goods in different colors, different typefaces, logos, etc. The power of consistent, congruent and effective branding can be applied to other senses. Audio is one of the most powerful senses we humans have. In fact, hearing turns on in the womb. We are born hearing! If you add audio to your managed brand communications portfolio, it doesn’t just add linearly. It’s exponential. 1+1 does equal 54!
Audio is the Carrier of Emotion.
Did you ever watch a movie with the sound off? Especially a scary movie? A thriller or horror film? Notice how different the experience felt. All the spine-tingling tension that you thought was coming from just watching the film was actually being communicated by the audio, namely music and sound effects.
Is Your Brand Communication Managed?
Most corporations and larger businesses have an agency on retainer to manage marketing communications. Smaller sized companies may have a department or even an individual. At advertising/marketing agencies, the creative team is supposed to be coming up with great ideas that communicate your brand story in line with both your current business objectives AND your overarching brand objectives. When it comes to adding music to your commercial, your website, your retail environments, even your powerpoint and music-on-hold, these young, hot-shot creatives usually slap in a hot track from their favorite new artist and say, “go license this.” There’s no thought to whether it even is adding to your brand communication or making your consumer remember the first time they heard this “in the back of a car on a bad date.” Your brand’s Music and Audio need to be managed in the same way your visual branding is.
Audio Strategy
Once you have an over-arching Audio Strategy for you brand, it needs to be communicated to all relevant stakeholders such as your marketing agencies, public relations, retail managers, etc. It also needs to be executed in a way that follows the strategy. Anyone can slap an MP3 behind your voice-over and say that’s an audio strategy. Not anyone can actually articulate what your strategy is and then come up with the business and brand reasons.
Engage Us
We can work with you in one or several of the following ways:
- Royalty Free Music Licensing – either self-serve – pay at our instant licensing online store or via invoice
- Full audio strategy – retainer
- Custom audio scoring – project fee
- Music supervision/search – hourly/daily rate + licensing fee
- Audio trademark/logo design – project fee
- Sound design and audio production – hourly/daily rate
Recent Music Supervision and Licensing Deals
- BBC Radio 4
- MetLife
- Adobe
- Nike
- United Way
- President Barack Obama’s Health Reform Summit
- TASC (The After School Corporation) video tribute to George Soros and AfterSchool
- Mike & Ike website
- Showtime Mixed Martial Arts
- United Way
- Sputnik TV
- Many, many independent filmmakers and animators
What our clients say
“The advantage of working with 300 Monks is that you have a wide range of composers with different specialities to choose from which makes for great speed and efficiency for your project.” – JY, DraftFCB NY “First, I want to say THANKS for a great website. I’m a director-producer and I’m always looking for great tracks for projects that I’m doing. Your music is fantastic” -AM – Quincy Films and Media “Working with Andrew was a pleasure. Our creative team had a very specific theme in mind and the music and sound design he produced was thematically consistent and very close to our needs, right off the bat. Subsequent tweaks were turned around quickly and intelligently.” – EM, Digitas
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