Some nice music tracks, TV Themes at Shockwave-Sound.com this week

Talented composer/producer Philip Curran has composed a series of 4 thirty-second tracks inspired by the intro themes to TV shows. These short, royalty-free music tracks can be heard online, and downloaded in MP3 or WAV files, from Shockwave-Sound.com -- including a license to use the tracks in your own productions (TV shows, YouTube videos, Podcasts, games and much more):

Philip Curran TV Show Theme 1: Fun and bright, upbeat and charming. Great for family programming, light entertainment, quiz show and more.

Philip Curran TV Show Theme 2: Fast and action filled, great for sports and "guys things"!

Philip Curran TV Show Theme 3: Cheeky and cheerful, memorable with a bouncy and happy whistling tune. Excellent for kids programming, childrens show, or just something goodnatured, with a little bit of humor.

Philip Curran TV Show Theme 4: Jazzy, cool, fun and funky. Again, great for things like daytime TV, leisure and hobby, maybe house makeover programmes and more.

Hope you enjoy these 4 nice themes.

Stock Music: Work stuff. Stock Sound-effects: Home stuff

Running a site for royalty-free music, and another site for royalty-free sound effects, has given me an insight into sales of these two types of products, and one of the things I've come up with is this rather interesting factoid...

Stock Music / Production Music sells most on the weekdays, less in the weekends. Stock Sound Effects seem to sell more on the weekends than on the weekdays. It would seem that mostly the people who buy Production Music / Stock Music are people working in offices, licensing the music for work stuff. Whereas people who buy Stock Sound Effects / Sound FX downloads, are mostly at home, working on some personal / weekend projects.

Winter music track "White Fields"

Lynne Publishing owner/general manager Bjorn Lynne composed and produced a new music track, "White Fields" and also produced this video for the track, using photographs taken in and around his home town of Stavern, Norway.

The track features ambient synth pads in a sort of warm but chilled mood, along with clean electric guitars and a down-tempo, mellow rhythm. Hope you'll enjoy it.

Music rights, various music licensing terms

As someone who works in the music licensing business, I know that there are a lot of terms and jargon in music licensing and music copyright issues that many music users don't understand as they simply don't have that background and inside knowledge. In this article I'll try to explain what the different "Rights" in music are and what each of the terms mean.

Sync Rights: Means that you get the legal right to synchronize the music with images. In other words, to mix the music into a film or other audio-visual project.

Mechanical Rights: Means that you get the rights to manufacture physical items (such as DVD film, audio-CD) that contains the music, where the music is used as part of a film / game / presentation / project that includes the music.

Performance Rights: Means that you get the rights to broadcast the music and play it in public. Please take note that for the most part, this right is not included with royalty-free music or stock music, because most stock music and royalty-free music available today was composed by composers who are members of Performance Rights Organizations (PRO's). That means that anybody who performs that music in public or broadcasts it on TV/Radio need a license from their country's Performance Rights Organization. Of course, most broadcasters already have this license. Broadcasting corporations pay an annual fee to the PRO's. So they can broadcast the music as much as they want, and it doesn't cost them anything extra. 

Moral Rights means the composer's right to deny/reject having his music used in a project that he doesn't like. For example, advertising for alcohol, or racist projects, or whatever that particular music composer may be strongly against. In the world of stock music / royalty-free music, usually the composer has to sign away his moral rights, because it's not practical to discuss every project done by every client who buys a stock music track from every stock music site that distributes his music.

If you're interested in learning more about the differences between various types of royalty-free music and "just how royalty-free is this royalty-free music" you may want to read this article at Shockwave-Sound.com which describes the differences between different "grades" of being royalty free.

The entire BBC sound effects library now for sale through 1SoundFX.com

We at Lynne Publishing are very happy to announce that our Sound Effects download site 1SoundFX.com now is the proud online distributor of the entire BBC Sound Effects library sporting 30,000 sounds from the BBC. Combined with many other libraries now available through 1SoundFX.com the total number of sounds now on offer is 112,221 sounds (as of November 2010) - with thousands more lined up to be added over the next few weeks. We would like to to thank Paul Virostek and Nery Bauer who both helped us immensely with the logistics of adding and cataloguing over a hundred thousand sound files. Together we're building the best Sound effects site on the web!

Guitars galore at Shockwave-Sound.com this week

Jeremy Sherman

Jeremy Sherman is an exceptionally talented guitarist and composer who is entirely self taught, and is one of the senior composer/producers here at Lynne Publishing. His music is always guitar based, as Jeremy likes to write and perform on a multitude of stringed instruments including the acoustic guitar, dobro, banjo, various electric guitars, basses and mandolins.

His music always feels organic, acoustic and human, whether it's latin music such as Andean Nights or Cantina, whether it's raw, southern blues-rock like in Shuffle Off , or it could be funny and upbeat hoe-down, country dance like in Take Your Partners or more contemporary country rock or country music such as Country Mile, Jeremy always delivers exquisite melodies and a feelgood, warm, homely sound.

We've been lucky enough to add 17 brand new tracks by Jeremy this week. As Jeremy is one of our signed-on composer/producers, we always keep his music totally exclusive to Shockwave-Sound.com for a minimum of one year before that music becomes available anywhere else.

If you are producing commercials, radio spots, fishing, hiking or outdoors videos or other projects that need an earthly, somewhat folky and wholesome feel, you really should check out the music of Jeremy Sherman. We're lucky to have him as part of our team.

This week's activities at Shockwave-Sound.com... So far

This week, as indeed every week, we're busy adding new music releases to the ever growing stock music / buyout music catalog at Shockwave-Sound.com. There was a period from last Friday when we sent out our most recent new music newsletter when we didn't add any new music for about 3 days - that's partly because we don't like to add any new music at the exact time we're sending out the newsletter because it may cause some confusion as to which music tracks have been mentioned in a newsletter, and which haven't. And partly because I myself was working on a new music composition that I was producing here in my home studio so I wanted to keep concentrating on that for a couple of days and get that new track completed without being sidetracked.

The new track that I (Bjorn Lynne) composed is called Digital Concepts and it's what I would consider "mainstream electronic" music, in as much as it's based on a techno / dance beat, but it's neither hard, nasty or too mechanical. It's a rather more "friendly" type of techno music that I feel goes well with multimedia productions. It also features a little bit of guitar and piano to make it more "pop" like and not so stuck in the techno genre.

John Radford

Today we have also added 6 new tracks by John Radford, a composer from the UK who makes various types of ambient, chill, pop and electronica genres. He has been working with us for several years and his latest tracks combine atmospheric pop / contemporary with ambient and film styles. Check out some of his latest works, including Soul Searching and Bridge And Tunnel. I think his music is great, it's deep and soulful without being difficult. These are slightly melancholic and thoughtful tracks that can fit well as background music in films, drama, commercials and many other project.