I first learned of Spotify (www.spotify.com) just about two years ago when I read a July 25, 2009 article in The New York Times by Brad Stone entitled “The Music Streams That Soothe an Industry.” At the time, my co-founder Mike Bielenberg and I were deep into the planning phase about the business model for this site, MusicRevolution.com, an online marketplace for royalty-free production music
A musician uploading tracks to our site recently asked how they can upload additional versions of their track to www.musicrevolution.com. Here’s how that works:
If you find yourself in a creative “rut” where you feel like everything you do sounds the same, working with different types of scales is a quick and easy way to dramatically change the sound of your music and throw you off balance in a healthy way. I was browsing through a gift shop in […]
Production music creators can generate vocal tracks like this by just entering pitches and text into a software program called Vocaloid, originally developed by Yamaha. The software is modular wherein the user buys one “Vocalist” at a time. Here’s a mind-blowing demo of the most recent “Vocalist” called Tonio
here’s a quick summary of the major differences between’s Apple’s new Final Cut X ($300), which will be replacing the traditional Final Cut software series (now at version 7 for $1,000)
Convert any of your old MIDI gear into a soft-synth in just a few clicks. This new version of Autosampler could be a game-changer for creators of production music: Part I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ0xgJDcC6Q] Part II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTvq2B5G0gY] __________________________________________________ Mike Bielenberg is a professional musician and co-founder of http://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace where media producers and business […]
Disney has had huge success on this legislative front so far with the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and Fairness in Music Licensing Act of 1998 . Despite this limitation, it often surprises media producers how many usable songs exist in the public domain such as
We love doing scavenger hunts for ideas and content that help media producers make cooler videos. Today we found this very effective approach to featuring a corporate executive
Anyone who’s ever attended a Vienna Boys Choir concert knows what an amazingly pure sound an ensemble like that can create. My vision for this track was a melody sung by a boys choir (for a serious feel), that was supported with electronic drums to give it some modernity.
The music that enters just after actress Sofia Vergara finishes her seductive pitch in this Cadillac Escalade commercial caught the attention of some my fellow musicians so I thought I’d post it here: