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Over 40 Royalty Free Music Soundtracks from Kevin Packard

By admin, on July 21st, 2010%

TV and Film Composer Kevin Packard covers all the bases of emotion from magical and fantastical, to creepy and spooky to dramatic underscoring to chase scenes. Some of his tracks sound perfect for replacing a Danny Elfman cue, others sound destined for use in a television 30 second spot for Home Depot or something.

Crowdsourcing music for commercials

By admin, on April 29th, 2010%

Technology just keeps changing the ways we do things! And now it’s crowdsourcing music for commercials.

This is cool. Musikpitch is a new site where advertisers can launch a contest and composers/songwriters/bands can then submit custom music for the project. The budget is clearly listed and MusikPitch keeps the publishing and administers the licensing.

. . . → Read More: Crowdsourcing music for commercials

Cool Commercial Shows How Composer Lalo Schifrin created Mission Impossible…Fantastically

By The Head Monk, on April 29th, 2010%

As a composer, I really got a kick out of this commercial spot for Lipton Yellow Label Tea which shows how a composer, a very famous one, creates the music for a major pop culture event: Mission Impossible. The music has lasted for decades since the television series and then with the movie remakes . . . → Read More: Cool Commercial Shows How Composer Lalo Schifrin created Mission Impossible…Fantastically

Great Acoustic Guitar Tracks – Royalty Free Music

By admin, on February 2nd, 2010%

Just added 7 great tracks from Nicky Needle. We are so fortunate to have so many great Acoustic and Americana options in our royalty free music library.

Check them out:

2010-02-02

Cold Miracle A minimalist, bluegrass piece that sounds straight out of T Bone Burnett and Cold Mountain. 2010-02-02

Desert Minor Haunting, slow, . . . → Read More: Great Acoustic Guitar Tracks – Royalty Free Music

Music To Stir the Blood

By admin, on December 14th, 2009%

Cinematic, Action Music

We’ve just added a bunch of new powerful, dramatic and often heroic, sometimes dark music soundtracks to our Underscore-Drama section of the Online Royalty Free Music Store.

Check out these and the entire collection.

EPILOGUE

Massive, grand and climactic orchestral pinnacle, followed by a warm yet thoughtful epilogue. Excellent for . . . → Read More: Music To Stir the Blood

Pandora’s Secret Music DNA Equals Millions of Human Hours

By admin, on October 20th, 2009%

Great article in the NY Times about how Pandora actually determines the individual elements of their Music Genome Project. Interesting that it is so human labor intensive, given the technology aura of the company.

And how do you get your music into their engine? One guy with an overflowing desk.

Also interesting to note . . . → Read More: Pandora’s Secret Music DNA Equals Millions of Human Hours

The sound of hollywood, Maurice Jarre dies at 84

By admin, on April 2nd, 2009%

What a sound!

Associated Press

PARIS – A French musicians guild says Oscar-winning film composer Maurice Jarre has died at the age of 84.

Jarre is best known for writing the haunting song “Lara’s Theme” from the film “Doctor Zhivago.”

SACEM head Bernard Miyet cites Jarre’s family Monday as saying the . . . → Read More: The sound of hollywood, Maurice Jarre dies at 84

“A man must die in order to live”- how loglines apply to film… and life!

By The Head Monk, on April 2nd, 2009%

Essential Communication

The ability to boil down a story to it’s minimum is at the heart of crafting a logline. It’s filmmaking 101. What’s a logline? It’s the sentence(s) you read in the TV guide excerpt, or on the movie poster or in the reviews. But what’s interesting is that this exercise in concise . . . → Read More: “A man must die in order to live”- how loglines apply to film… and life!

This week’s Top Ten films by Film Composer

By admin, on April 1st, 2009%

Ginormica rules this week scored by Henry Jackman.

Jackman scored lots of stuff before being noticed by Hans Zimmer. Interesting to note Trevor Rabin has 2 films in the top ten this week. Not bad for a guy who was the replacement guitarist in Yes. (okay he was much more than that.)

Top Ten . . . → Read More: This week’s Top Ten films by Film Composer

How to scare the pants off your audience

By admin, on March 16th, 2009%

It is a rather ironic fact that my son is terrified of movies. How did this happen? I who score films (and theater and commercials and websites, etc) have a son that won’t come near the studio door when a film is in production! My wife and I had to practically tie him down . . . → Read More: How to scare the pants off your audience

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