I recently learned about Vidaao (www.vidaao.com), an online marketplace for video production and video producers. I thought Vidaao would be of interest since many of our readers and customers on MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com) are video producers or companies that also purchase video production services. This isn’t surprising since video is naked without sound or music. Video producers usually need music to complete their video or multimedia productions.

I had the opportunity to speak with Vidaao’s co-founder Justin Park. “Initially conceived as an online marketplace, Vidaao has created a community for video producers and is changing the way companies purchase and manage custom video production,” stated Park. “Our vision for Vidaao is to now become the online end to end video marketing platform for enterprises large and small,” added Park.

Vidaao is focused on streamlining and simplifying video production and the management of video projects. If you’re looking for a new source and a new way to purchase custom video production and video marketing services, you might want to check out Vidaao (pronounced “vi-dow”) (http://www.vidaao.com/vision). Vidaao also provides a free e-book entitled “Video Marketing Playbook.” This is a great resource to help guide you through the video production process which is worth checking out at http://www.vidaao.com/promo/playbook .

Or if you’re a video producer looking for new business and a new way to promote your services, you might also want to check out Vidaao (http://www.vidaao.com/sell-video) and consider joining their community.

The Internet and crowdsourcing continues to transform how businesses and individuals access all types of digital content (including video and music) and how they conduct business. Vidaao is another interesting example of this.

________________________________________________________________

Chris Cardell is the co-founder of MusicRevolution.com http://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace with over 23,000 tracks online where media producers, video producers, filmmakers, game developers, advertisers, businesses and other music buyers can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music and custom music from a online community of professional musicians. Cardell has been involved with digital content and E-Commerce since the mid-1990′s.

Location:Mill Creek,Washington,U.S.A.

Member since: June 25, 2011

Tracks in portfolio on MusicRevolution.com: 84 (click here to hear all tracks)

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search?artist=657

Background:

Washington State Artist Geoffrey Wilson has worked extensively as a session musician, musical director, composer and producer. With an impressive list of clients including FCB Worldwide, Van Nuys Airport, Xirlink, Contempo Design, Signature Music Europe, Conservation International, and many others, Geoffrey has vast experience writing for ads, corporate, and industrial projects, as well as feature films and documentaries.

 Some Questions We Asked Geoffrey:

 –High profile projects or clients you have worked for?

 Signature Music Europe, which led to radio and television placements acrossEurope.

 –Primary instrument? –Favorite music-making piece of gear or software you currently use?

Guitar is my primary instrument. Piano and keyboards are my second. I love my Mac Pro Quad and Nuendo software in sync with my Yamaha O1V96 mixer.

–Piece of gear or software you wish you owned?

Custom made Thompson Guitar fromCanada. It’s the most amazing steel string acoustic guitar I’ve ever played for fingerstyle.

–Film score or song you admire? Why?

Prokofiev’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.1. Besides being one of the most intensely dramatic and emotional pieces I’ve ever heard the changes and use of polytonality and rhythm are brilliant. Also, the piano technique is just insane.

–Music education background?

I have a Bachelor of Music in Composition from CSUN with classical guitar as my main instrument and piano as my second. I also spent time studying classical guitar at California Institute of the Arts, Composition at UCSB and Balinese and Javanese Gamelan atCalArts and UCLA.

–Memorable “Aha!” moment during your musical education?

Let the music write itself.

–Most embarrassing music-related moment?

I was doing a big show inSeattlewith a singer named Marcella Havel. I was on acoustic guitar  playing some difficult swing changes and somehow, someway I hit a really bad clunker. I put a big smile on my face and purposely did it again. The audience got the joke and started laughing.

–If you had a time machine and could record or perform once with any artist, who would it be?

Miles Davis.

–Moment you first knew you would be a musician?

Hearing the guitar solo in Jane by the Jefferson Starship when I was eleven.

–Advice you would give to a younger family member interested in a music career?

Always study technology as well as music.

–Five songs or albums you’d take with you to a desert island?

Yes – Relayer

CrosbyStills Nash and Young – So Far

Buddhadev Das Gupta – Raga Jaijaivanti

J.S. Bach – Goldberg Variations

Joe Pass/Joe Pisano Duets.

–If you could master another instrument, what would it be?

I’d like to spend more time working on piano music.

–Favorite time of day to work in your studio?

Morning.

–Any studio collaboration you experienced that stands out in your mind?  Why?

Yeah. My good friend Jake Feldman (son of the late Victor Feldman  of Steely Dan) and I had a crazy, unadulterated, Zappa-esk project that was the funniest thing I’ve ever played in. If I still lived inL.A.I would still be involved with the project just because of the nirvana of it all.

–2 or 3 of your favorite tracks that you would want us to feature in the blog.

The Tracker

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?trackid=20380

African Skies

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?trackid=30885

Jig of Life

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?trackid=20381

We thank Geoffrey for sharing some of his musical background with us and for contributing his tracks to MusicRevolution.com, the Production Music Marketplace. With music in the Dramatic, Electronic, Orchestral, New Age, Jazz, and World genres, see how Geoffrey Wilson’s music can take your production to the next level today on MusicRevolution.com.

______________________________________________________________________________

Chris Cardell is the co-founder of MusicRevolution.com https://www.musicrevolution.com,a production music marketplace with over 23,000 tracks online where media producers, video producers, filmmakers, game developers, advertisers, businesses and other music buyers can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music and custom music from a online community of professional musicians. Cardell has been involved with digital content and E-Commerce since the mid-1990′s.

I once heard a story about a large farm property in Tennessee on which several families comfortably live.  They all belong to one family tree and dwell in single-family homes built on distant corners of the property. Thanksgiving holiday, I would like to imagine, is pretty awesome.

This relative utopia is entirely funded by…are you ready for this?… song royalties from “Grandma Got
Run Over by A Reindeer”.

When musicians get together, they don’t talk about music. They talk about money. And to me this story
reinforces the monetary value of owning a song, even a stupid one, that has permeated our culture.

Here’s another study case:

All of Weird Al Yankovic’s songs are legally considered “parodies” and thus he does not have to share
royalties with the songwriters he ridiculed. As a teenager, I couldn’t turn off these music videos fast
enough. But now, with two kids to put through college, I view Weird Al as a business genius. His
royalty-generation strategy was guaranteed to win before he even set foot in a studio.

And so one evening while jogging in the park a vocal chorus hook arrived in my head. It sounded like
Kelly Clarkson singing “Poooopy diaper, poooopy diaper” on top of a driving dance beat with complete and utter emotional conviction. Not a drop of irony in her delivery.

Several weeks later, again while jogging, another nugget entered my brain. This one was a straight
parody of 2 Live Crew’s “Too Much Booty in the Pants”. But in my version, they were saying “Too much
poopy….” (which is what I always thought they were saying anyway).

I would love to sit here and tell you the universe dropped a song in my lap that undoubtedly brings more love to our planet. A song about human relationships that bestows just one more sorely needed modicum of peace and understanding to mankind.

But it didn’t. It dropped “Poopy Diaper” into my lap and I’m gonna run with the idea. This blog is part I of a series in which I’ll document my experience writing,  producing and marketing a novelty song with one singular, and selfish goal….to own the publishing rights to a song that has permeated culture.

Stay tuned.

_____________________________________________________________________

Mike Bielenberg is a professional musician and co-founder of http://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace with over 23,000 tracks online where media producers, video producers, filmmakers, game developers, businesses and other music buyers can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music from an online community of musicians mbielenberg@musicrevolution.com.

Doing basic music searches on www.MusicRevolution.com just became more fun. We’re proud to announce we’ve just overhauled the “Related Searches” feature that you see at the top of every page of search results. Here’s how it works:

Let’s say you’ve started your music search with the query “funky”. Your search results probably look something like this:

But imagine you’ve listened to a few of the tracks and they all seem off the mark. You need something different, but you’re not sure how to find it. Whenever this happens on Amazon they always show that handy list of “Related Searches”.  And if it’s good enough for Amazon it’s good enough for us.

Take another look at those search results, but this time look towards the top:

You’ve got four different “Related Searches” links to try. Each one will kick-off a new search for tracks that share some of the qualities of the first batch, but not all the qualities. Think of them as out-of-state relatives…who may or may not get along with each other.

Happy music searching!

_____________________________________________________________________

Mike Bielenberg is a professional musician and co-founder of http://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace with over 23,000 tracks online where media producers, video producers, filmmakers, game developers, businesses and other music buyers can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music from an online community of musicians mbielenberg@musicrevolution.com.

Independence Day, or the 4^th of July, honors the birthday of the United States of America and the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Independence Day is a Federal Holiday in the U.S. and it is celebrated with picnics, parties, parades, concerts and fireworks. We thought that we would highlight some of the great royalty-free music for Independence Day on MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com) that could be used for a range of purposes including TV and radio commercials, corporate videos, web videos, trade show videos, company meetings, background music, on hold music and a range of other applications. We have an extensive selection of royalty-free music for the 4^th of July. A search on MusicRevolution.com for “July 4th” yields the following royalty-free production music tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=july+4th&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=34&y=9

A search on MusicRevolution.com for “Independence Day” yields the following royalty-free production music tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=independence+day&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=32&y=7

A search on MusicRevolution.com for “stars and stripes” includes “Stars and Stripes Forever – Sousa” by the Apollo Symphony Orchestra. This is a great royalty-free production music track for any 4^th of July project—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?trackid=6405

A search on MusicRevolution.com for “marching” yields 179 royalty-free production music tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=marching&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=23&y=4

A search on MusicRevolution.com for “parade” yields the following 38 royalty-free production music tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=parade&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=48&y=9

A search on MusicRevolution.com for “patriotic” yields over 50 royalty-free production music tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=patriotic&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=37&y=8

With over 23,000 tracks of royalty-free music online, there are many other affordable music choices for your media project on MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com). MusicRevolution.com has some of the best royalty-free music available anywhere.

_________________________________________

Chris Cardell is the co-founder of MusicRevolution.com https://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace with over 23,000 tracks online where media producers, video producers, filmmakers, game developers, advertisers, businesses and other music buyers can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music and custom music from an online community of professional musicians. Cardell has been involved with digital content and E-Commerce since the mid-1990′s.

June is considered by many to be the traditional wedding month. With June just a few days away, we thought that we would highlight some of the affordable royalty-free production music on MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com) that would complete your wedding videos and slideshows. We have some excellent royalty-free wedding music. A search on MusicRevolution.com for “wedding” yields 69 royalty-free production music tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=wedding&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=33&y=7

A search on MusicRevolution.com for “romantic” yields over 900 royalty-free production music tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=romantic&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=46&y=6

A search for “sentimental” yields nearly 5,000 royalty-free production music tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=sentimental&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=26&y=4

A search for “love” yields over 1,200 royalty-free production music tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=love&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=36&y=7

MusicRevolution.com also has a number of CDs, available in both physical CD and download CD format, with hand-selected royalty-free music tracks that are perfect for background music for wedding videos and slideshows, including:

“Sentimental, Vol. 1” –

http://www.musicrevolution.com/cd_details/sentimental_vol_1/

“Acoustic Guitar, Vol. 1” –

http://www.musicrevolution.com/cd_details/acoustic_guitar_vol_1/

“NewAge, Vol. 1″ -

http://www.musicrevolution.com/cd_details/new_age_vol_1/

“Piano, Vol. 1” –

http://www.musicrevolution.com/cd_details/piano_vol_1/

“Orchestral/Classical, Vol. 1”, which includes a royalty-free music version of Johan Pachelbel’s “Canon in D”–

http://www.musicrevolution.com/cd_details/orchestral_classical_vol_1/

There have been cases of wedding photographers getting sued for using music online and in their wedding videos that are produced for commercial gain. While a popular song might only cost $0.99 on iTunes, this is for personal use only, and not for commercial use. A wedding photographer/videographer might have to pay a significant fee (in the thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars) to use a popular music song in a wedding video or slideshow. A high-quality, royalty-free music track can keep you and your company legal and it can help you complete your wedding video or slideshow without breaking your budget.

With over 23,000 tracks of royalty-free production music online, there are many stock music choices for your wedding video or slideshow, or any other project on MusicRevolution.com.  MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com ) has some of the best royalty-free music available anywhere.

_________________________________________

Chris Cardell is the co-founder of MusicRevolution.com https://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace with over 23,000 tracks online where media producers, video producers, filmmakers, game developers, advertisers, businesses and other music buyers can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music and custom music from an online community of professional musicians. Cardell has been involved with digital content and E-Commerce since the mid-1990′s.

Everybody likes to have fun. When people have fun, they usually have lasting memories. Music that can communicate a fun, light-hearted mood in your media production and make your audience smile can create a memorable experience, and this is great for advertising. Not surprisingly, “Fun” is a frequently searched term on MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com). We thought that we would highlight the extensive selection of royalty-free fun music on MusicRevolution.com that could be used for TV and radio commercials, film, website videos, background music and a range of other applications. MusicRevolution.com has some great royalty-free fun music.

A search on MusicRevolution.com for “fun” yields over 7,500 royalty-free music tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=fun&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=18&y=1

A search for “funny” yields over 200 royalty-free music tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=funny&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=40&y=8

A search for “quirky” yields over 400 royalty-free music tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=quirky&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=33&y=8

A search for “humorous” yields the following 75 royalty-free music tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=Humorous&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=22&y=3

We figured that any track that used the whistle might not be too serious and probably would fall into the “fun” category for royalty-free music. A search on MusicRevolution.com for “whistle” yields nearly 100 royalty-free music tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=whistle&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=32&y=5

We also thought that any track that used the kazoo probably would fall into the “fun” category for royalty-free music. A search on MusicRevolution.com for “kazoo” yields the following 6 royalty-free music tracks—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=kazoo&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=32&y=10

MusicRevolution.com also has a number of production music CDs, available in both physical and download CD formats, with hand-selected royalty-free music tracks. We created a fun collection of royalty-free music on “Fun, Vol. 1” —

http://www.musicrevolution.com/cd_details/fun_vol_1/

The royalty-free fun tracks on this CD are great for TV and radio advertising, film, videos, websites, background music and a variety of other uses where you want your audience to have fun and feel good. In addition to the CD, these fun royalty-free music tracks can be purchased as single tracks as well.

With over 23,000 tracks of royalty-free music online, there are many other affordable music choices for your media project on MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com) MusicRevolution.com has some of the best royalty-free music available anywhere.

______________________________________________________________________________

Chris Cardell is the co-founder of MusicRevolution.com https://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace with over 23,000 tracks online where media producers, video producers, filmmakers, game developers, advertisers, businesses and other music buyers can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music and custom music from a online community of professional musicians. Cardell has been involved with digital content and E-Commerce since the mid-1990′s.

At a time when YouTube is the 2nd most used search engine in the world and my 11-year old knows 25 viral videos off the top of his head, this electronic dance music band from Great Britain has found an incredibly effective way to market a song. Just try and watch this sports highlight video without sucked into Hadouken’s super-catchy chorus:

Didn’t realize the whole purpose of the video was to market a song called “Levitate”? This is what we internet folks call “content marketing”…essentially web content that is so useful people would theoretically pay for it.

So how was it possible for the band to use all this footage from a rights perspective? Based on the number of attribution links to the original video sources as well as YouTube’s strict “3 strikes you’re out” policy, this author is assuming the band either took the time to obtain permission from all the rights holders…or carefully chose content created only by rights holders participating in YouTube’s revenue sharing program (perhaps a combination of both).

Copyright permissions are a serious business on YouTube because of their “copyright strike” policy. If a user’s account has had content removed three times based on “complete and valid removal requests from copyright holders”, then that user’s account will be suspended for 6 months.

I think this is brilliant marketing on Hadouken’s part. Their video strategy accumulated 75M+ YouTube views and went viral in at least one Atlanta elementary school. Well done, mates.

______________________________________________________________________________

Mike Bielenberg is a professional musician and co-founder of http://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace with over 23,000 tracks online where media producers, video producers, filmmakers, game developers, businesses and other music buyers can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music from an online community of musicians mbielenberg@musicrevolution.com.

Memorial Day is a United States holiday held on the last Monday of each May honoring all Americans who have died in wars for our country. We salute and thank the men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice to protect our country and our freedom. With Memorial Day, May 27, 2013, just over a week away, we thought that we would highlight some of the royalty-free music on MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com) that would be suitable for your Memorial Day production or for background music on Memorial Day. We have a great collection of royalty-free Memorial Day music.

A search on MusicRevolution.com for “memorial” yields 11 royalty-free music tracks-

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=memorial&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=25&y=6

A search for “patriotic” yields over 50 royalty-free music tracks–

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=patriotic&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=38&y=11

A search for “honor” yields the following 43 royalty-free music tracks–

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=honor&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=41&y=8

We also had a customer request for royalty-free production music that would be suitable for a war memorial for fallen soldiers. Here are some of the royalty-free music tracks that were submitted for that request—

http://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=track+request+46&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=28&y=9

With over 23,000 tracks of royalty-free music online, there are many other affordable music choices for your Memorial Day production or any other media project on MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com). MusicRevolution.com has some of the best royalty-free music available anywhere.

___________________________________________

Chris Cardell is the co-founder of MusicRevolution.com https://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace with over 23,000 tracks online where media producers, video producers, filmmakers, game developers, advertisers, businesses and other music buyers can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music and custom production music from a online community of professional musicians. Cardell has been involved with digital content and E-Commerce since the mid-1990′s.

A few years ago I wrote a short blog series (Part I & Part II) that summarized and reviewed Dan Levitin’s excellent book The World in Six Songs (2009 Penguin Press). Levitin made the compelling case that music served a key role in mankind’s evolution from caves to condominiums.

Human beings, at a societal level, have specific social, psychological and logistical needs that can only be met by communicating with one another through song. It sounds touchy-feely, but Levitin makes his argument through an empirical, academic lens that cites peer-recognized studies conducted in the fields of neuroscience, anthropology and psychiatry. Good stuff.

Levitin goes one step further and even breaks down the music that helped us evolve into six types of songs that really resonate with us: love songs, religious songs, knowledge songs, friendship songs, joy songs, comfort songs.

So after writing about the music business for many years now and living in what is pretty much a fully digital world that markets to me constantly, I would posit to Mr. Levitin that a seventh type of song needs to be added to his list:

Manipulation Songs

“Want to Sail into the Sun” by Gentlemen Hall

“The Secret Sun” by Jesse Harris

______________________________________________________________________________

Mike Bielenberg is a professional musician and co-founder of http://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace with over 22,000 tracks online where media producers, video producers, filmmakers, game developers, businesses and other music buyers can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music from an online community of musicians mbielenberg@musicrevolution.com.