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)
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
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:
Often a client who needs original music will be primarily focused on the short-term needs of the project: Does this cue correctly fit the scene? How many revisions of the demo will there be? Will the composer finish on time? Long-term considerations such as the saleability of the track in a royalty-free music library are […]
Years ago I wrote jingles and commercial soundtracks on a weekly basis. Most of those tracks were created on a handshake which worked for everyone involved. The producer got exactly the music they needed at the time they needed it. And I, the musician, acquired a small piece of property for which I could charge […]
1 year ago this month my good friend Chris Cardell and I launched a dream that is this very website upon which you gaze, oh reader. www.musicrevolution.com was our chance to make the kind of website that was too innovative, too fancy and too forward-focused to be created quickly by the kind of big stock […]
Location: Midvale, UT, United States Of America Member Since: January 13, 2011 Tracks in Portfolio: 10 (click here to hear all tracks) Tracks We Like: “Tech World” “Deep Magic” The Interview: Primary instrument? Guitar & Drums (Acoustic and Electric) Favorite music-making piece of gear or software you currently use? Boss DD-7 and Line 6 DL4 […]
A Juniper Research report released in January 2011 predicts that ringback tone advertising will reach $780 Million Annually by 2015. What exactly is a ringback tone? This video explains it quite well: The growth of mobile phone usage in certain Asian Pacific countries over the last few years has far outpaced the US due in large […]
A few weeks ago Anthony Tommasini wrote an interesting article for The New York Times entitled “The Greatest” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/arts/music/23composers.html?_r=1 , which was about the greatest classical music composers of all time, not including those composers that are still with us. At the top of the list was Johann Sebastian Bach. Rounding out the top three were […]