Let's value our composers before it's too late! This is a bit of a rant, in respect of certain big businesses that are damaging the independent music industry in my opinion. Not only that, many music producers are going along with this by allowing their music to be licensed for pennies/cents. Some big music licensing websites are offering low-cost subscriptions for around … [Read more...]
What Does a Quality TV Film Production Cost?
How does $6,000,000 per produced hour sound? ... With Netflix investing $6bn into 1000 hours of original content it is clear that creating compelling high quality film content is pretty costly. That is an equivalent of $6,000,000 per finished hour. It makes the amounts we charge for music licensing, sound effects, voice over services and audio production pale into … [Read more...]
Building a Sample Based Orchestra and God Save the Queen
My goal of getting back into writing and producing music has been challenging so far. Initially, I found that the range of options for composing with computers these days is literally mind blowing. We have access to many thousands of sounds and what you tend to find is that you start off with an idea in mind but then after 3 hours of finding the right sound that inspiration has … [Read more...]
Will We Run Out of Music? Or Is Music Infinite?
Over the last few months I have spent a serious amount of time studying and refreshing my knowledge on music composition and production. In the previous 10 years or so, running MediaMusicNow has been my priority and composing my own music has taken a backseat (until now). Getting back into music production has taken a fair chunk of cash and lots of time studying. My personal … [Read more...]
How Many Tracks Does a Library Composer Need to Generate Royalties?
A Library Owner’s View This is an interesting subject for me. Initially I was a composer who setup a library to sell my music. However, I also started to add music from other interested composers and this became a full time job meaning I had no time to create my own music. Ten years on I’m 10 months into my own journey of becoming a composer again and this is a question … [Read more...]