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Location: Los Angeles, CA, United States Of America Member Since: May 1, 2010 Tracks in Portfolio: 148 Tracks We Like: Catch_Me_If_You_Can Dark_Cry_Of_The_Soul_full Science_Friction The Interview: 1. High profile projects or clients you have worked for? Boeing, Microsoft XBOX 360, Toyota. 2. Primary instrument? Guitar was my first instrument and the one that still feels the […]

Every professional musician I know has said at least once, “People love that song and it’s so simple! Why didn’t I write that?”. Along the same lines, every couple of years the music licensing equivalent of a grand slam is accomplished by a signed recording artist just noodling around at sound check while we production […]

Last week we delved into a method of creating electronica tracks I learned from music technology maven and performance artist Craig Anderton through his excellent columns written for Keyboard magazine. Through this writing method – now dubbed the “mute party” – I have created production music tracks commissioned by IBM, and Dreamworks then later licensed […]

Years ago, high tech music guru Craig Anderton wrote a tutorial for Keyboard magazine outlining one of his very effective approaches to creating electronica music. Anderton was the editor of Electronic Musician until 1990 and has reviewed thousands of high tech music products. Though I am unable to cite the exact issue, the simple concept […]

In the previous installment of this blog series, I provided examples of what researcher Dan Levitin suggests are three types of songs that are not just important to us personally, but important from the standpoint of human evolution. In his book, The World in Six Songs (2009 Penguin Press), Levitin makes that case that human […]

In his 2008 book The World in Six Songs (2009 The Penguin Group), researcher Daniel J. Levitin creates a fascinating thread that connects findings in neuroscience, physiology, evolution theory, and anthropology. He suggests that your love of music speaks to something deeper in your DNA than the moment you discovered your parents’ record collection. A […]

We’ve launched our discussion forum https://www.musicrevolution.com/forum/, which is focused on the various aspects production music, to provide an additional resource to serve the community of professional and aspiring musicians that fuels MusicRevolution.com. Our objective with this forum is to create an online meeting place where our musicians can share their knowledge and experiences, and collaborate […]

This blog article links to three play lists containing the type of production music I see used most often in TV commercials and video presentations. By “type” I don’t necessarily mean specific music sub-genres (punk rock, progressive trance, etc.) but rather moods or energy levels most often required by a video editor trying to tell […]

Producing a music track is akin to directing a motion picture in that one of those many decisions made on the set will become a huge factor in the editing room……but it’s difficult to know which one. It takes extraordinary skill to be immersed in the technical complexity, creative options and personalities of a production […]