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 (both are guitar delay and modulation pedals)

Piece of gear or software you wish you owned?

….. hmmmm.. more like a giant room to record in…

Film score or song you admire? Why?

Inception by Hans Zimmer – it’s amazing the soundscapes that Zimmer creates through MIDI

Music education background?

10 years of live performance and creation with guitar, bass, drums, & piano… all self taught and by ear…

Memorable “Aha!” moment during your musical education?

When I realized that the best music isn’t necessarily the most talented, but the most appropriate.

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

Copeland, before they had broken up..

Moment you first knew you would be a musician?

Age 8… after quitting piano lessons because it was too limiting..

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

Always do what you love… and do it %110… otherwise do nothing at all

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

Barcelona-Absolutes
Copeland-You Are My Sunshine
Copeland-In  Motion
Jimmy Eat World-Futures
Jimmy Eat World-Clarity

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

Violin, or Cello

Favorite time of day to work in your studio?

2-4 am…… the most artistic work is done when in that odd state of mind most reached when exhausted…

Big thanks to Sheyn for contributing tracks that help make MusicRevolution the Production Music Marketplace.

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Mike Bielenberg is a professional musician and co-founder of http://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace where media producers and business owners can license high-quality, affordable music from a online community of musicians.

Although the Thomas Newman-esque soundtrack and glorious slow motion shots of liquids pouring make this yogurt commercial noteworthy, it’s really the poem (brilliantly read by William Dafoe) that makes it extraordinary:

I’m now on a mission to find the original author of this poem.

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Mike Bielenberg is a professional musician and co-founder of http://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace where media producers and business owners can license high-quality, affordable music from a online community of musicians.

The song featured in this movie trailer for the soon-to-be-released Madea’s Big Happy Family is fantastic:

It’s  “M.A to the D.E.A” by FS (featuring Northern League). It’s available on iTunes.

From what I can see it was commissioned specifically for this movie trailer so the artist is probably independent and maybe even located in Atlanta. I’d like to track down this artist for an interview and do a follow-up blog on the production of this killer track.

If anyone has a lead on where to find FS (featuring Northern League), please contact us at https://www.musicrevolution.com/contact_us/

Mike Bielenberg
www.musicrevolution.com

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 to underdeveloped land line phone systems in those emerging economies.

Resourceful marketers have exploited the branding opportunity that lies within a caller who is waiting for someone to answer the phone. That person is focusing a good bit of their attention on what’s coming out of that phone. Why not use that opportunity to play a five second ad for that new Bollywood film coming to a theater near you?

Based on communications we’ve received from companies in India that provide music for mobile networks outside of the US, we think this represents opportunity for creators of production music. More to come…

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Mike Bielenberg is a professional musician and co-founder of http://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace where media producers and business owners can license high-quality, affordable music from a online community of musicians.

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 Ludwig van Beethoven and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The article is certainly worth reading.

A search for “classical” on MusicRevolution.com, an online marketplace for royalty-free production music, yields over 1,600 tracks https://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=Enter&application=0&mood=0&genre=20&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=34&y=8 and includes royalty-free music from many great composers in Tommasini’s Top 10 which includes Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Debussy, Stravinsky, Brahms, Verdi, Wagner and Bartok.

And a search for “Apollo Symphony Orchestra” on MusicRevolution.com returns a collection of nearly 500 classical tracks produced with an orchestra

https://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=Apollo+Symphony+Orchestra&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=38&y=3 .

This great collection of production music tracks includes compositions from Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Smetana, Handel and Mahler, among others.

One of my favorite classical music tracks is ‘The Moldau” which was composed by Bedrich Smetana.

https://www.musicrevolution.com/search/?keyword=Moldau+River+%28from+Ma+Vlast%29&application=0&mood=0&genre=0&instrument=0&influence=&vocals=1&results=20&x=31&y=12

The track is just over 6 minutes in length. Be patient for the first minute or so while the track starts to build. After that, if you close your eyes you can envision the flowing Moldau River after which the compostion was named.

Classical music is timeless and can be used for background music or for almost any type of video, TV, film, advertisement or any other multi-media project where production music is needed.

Who do you think is the greatest (non-living) classical composer of all time? We would love to hear your opinion. Go to our Forum and let us know.

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Chris Cardell is the co-founder of MusicRevolution.com https://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace where media producers and business owners can license high-quality, affordable royalty-free music from a online community of musicians. Cardell has been involved with digital content and E-Commerce since the mid-1990’s.

Happy almost-St. Patrick’s Day, media maker!

Here’s a Music Bin containing some terrific royalty-free tracks from www.musicrevolution.com with a Celtic or Irish feel. To hear the music, click on this URL, scroll down and look for the list of tracks in the left hand column. Enjoy!:

https://www.musicrevolution.com/?binid=83

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Mike Bielenberg is a professional musician and co-founder of http://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace where media producers and business owners can license high-quality, affordable music from a online community of musicians.

I’ve just checked the royalty statements for our musicians and see that in our 1st year online well over 60 of our musicians have made money.  Are you one of them? Be sure to log into your account from time to time to watch your royalty balance grow. And please remember we pay quarterly on all balances that have reached $50.00 or more.

We’re working hard to make money with the great music you create. One thing we’ve learned in our 1st year is that musicians expect to be notified by email whenever their music sells.

While that makes sense, it’s not something we had built into our original site spec. We’ll be sure to add it later, but for now we’d prefer to focus our energy on selling your music and ask you to periodically check your balance.

I know from experience it’s a tremendous feeling to earn royalties.  I’ve heard artists joke that after a big project they feel like they’ve given birth. In the case of production music, that metaphor extends to having those kids grow up and work the family farm while you’re inside an air-conditioned house sipping tea!

When you get a chance, check your www.musicrevolution.com account balance, oh creator of music.

Thanks for letting us sell your music!

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Mike Bielenberg is a professional musician and co-founder of http://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace where media producers and business owners can license high-quality, affordable music from a online community of musicians.

Location: Amstelveen, Netherlands
Member since: December 14, 2010
Tracks in portfolio: 2 (click here to hear all tracks)

Tracks We Like:

“Showdown”

“Quantum”

The Interview

1. High profile projects or clients you have worked for?

I have had my music used by world class companies for their TV commercials.

2. Primary instrument?

I play primarily the keyboards and piano, but usually the inspiration for a new piece of music comes from an old acoustic guitar.

3. Favorite music-making piece of gear or software you currently use?

Definitely a Yamaha Motif ES8, it’s a great workstation and combined with Pro Tools. It works really good as a master MIDI controller as well.

4. Piece of gear or software you wish you owned?
Nord Lead 3 erformance synthesizer.

5. Film score or song you admire? Why?

Inception soundtrack by Hans Zimmer.  I love the harmonic textures, deepness and sense of mystic yet controllable act of nested dreaming is superb, a moderrn masterpiece.
6. Music education background?

I don’t have a formal music education, even though I’m currently studying at Berklee Music for Film and Television.

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

Tarkus (ELP), Lord of The Ring soundtrack (Howard Shore), Moving Pictures (Rush), Homework (Daft Punk), Holy Diver (R.J. Dio)

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

The drumkit… I can play drums, but I haven’t mastered this amazing instrument.
9. Favorite time of day to work in your studio?

My favorite time in the studio is early in the morning. The mind and the body do really need to be fresh to give the best in music production. And besides you have an entire day ahead to redo/modify things.

Big thanks to Giuseppe for contributing tracks that help make MusicRevolution the Production Music Marketplace.

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Mike Bielenberg is a professional musician and co-founder of http://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace where media producers and business owners can license high-quality, affordable music from a online community of musicians.

We are proud to announce that for musicians with large catalogs we can now do bulk meta data uploads. In our experience, uploading the actual production music audio files is usually pretty painless. It’s the meta data tagging process that takes the longest.

Here’s how it works: You organize all of your meta data on a CSV spreadsheet in a specific format created by our developers. Then we push all that meta data live in one fell swoop.

If you’re interested, please contact us here and we’ll send you the CSV template. Thanks for letting us sell your music!

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Mike Bielenberg is a professional musician and co-founder of http://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace where media producers and business owners can license high-quality, affordable music from a online community of musicians.