More Free Video Background Loops: Romantic and Corporate
We have uploaded two new pages of free video background loops to our growing collection of free video loops. The new pages include 12 romantic video loops with lots of hearts and flowers plus 10 corporate video background loops with lots of charts, globes and team building images.
They are available in full rez and in both NTSC and PAL formats. You can use these video loops as backgrounds in your personal and commercial projects completely free of charge (you are not allowed to repost, redistribute or resell these clips without syncing them into your own projects first).
Street Fight Simulator for the iPhone
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Sound design your fake street fights with Punch ‘n’ Stab Have fun with your friends and frighten complete strangers with these powerful sounding punches and super-gory sounding knife wounds. Simply hold your iPhone sideways with the screen up and thrust forward to trigger the power punch sound effect. The punch and stab sounds alone are pretty cool but what is a good street fight without some great action music? You get: ’70′s Cop Show’ for that Starsky and Hutch type TV drama ‘Mission Incredible’ for that super-spy action movie vibe ‘Heavy Rock Action’ soundtrack for all you metal-heads out there. We’ll be adding more functionality and music choices in future upgrades. |
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More Free Royalty Free Music Clips
Besides all of the free royalty free music we give away for personal and commercial use here
http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/free_music_loops.shtml
we also like to point you to other websites and blogs that offer free royalty free music. Here are three composers that I ran across today:
Taylor Howard
http://www.taylorhayward.org/recordings.htm
Some very nice ambient / classical piano recordings from Taylor Howard with wide-open, copyright-free terms for use:
“The music on this site is: free to download and play, free to rebroadcast in any form for any purpose, free to play in public, free to publish for profit, and free to sample.
There is no copyright on this music.
If you can think of a creative way to use this music, you have my full support.”
Bill Cushman
http://ghostnotes.blogspot.com/
This talented is offering his beautiful piano pieces for free use in personal and commercial project. You need to contact the composer before using music.
Derek Audette
http://derekaudette.ottawaarts.com/music.php
A collection of free royalty free music from Derek Audette. Although most of the tracks are very midi sounding there are some interesting and usable pieces here:
“There is no charge or licensing fees associated with the use of any of these songs for any reason. I only ask that if you use them in a production in which you are able to give credit, (such as closing credits in a video or film production) that you do provide the proper credit in your production. ”
Posted on June 7th, 2009 by admin | View CommentsPump Audio Demands (A lot) More Money From Their Composers
Pump Audio has sent out the notice posted below to all of their contributors.
It basically says that from now on their split will be 35% to the artists and 65% to Getty Images.
It would be surprising if this was a Pump Audio decision but it is definitely not surprising that this is a Getty Images decision. Getty Images along with Jupiter Images are pretty ruthless in how they treat their composers. And their composers are the ones who make their business models profitable.
Dear Pump Audio Artist,
We would like to thank you for your music and congratulate you on being part of one of the fastest growing music licensing companies in the world. Since the acquisition of Pump Audio by Getty Images, we continue to hear praises from a wide expansion of our clients on the depth and quality of our catalog and that is a testament to you.
As we plan for the future growth of our offering to the global music licensing client base, we have determined that to fully support the 400+ person Getty Images sales staff and invest in marketing and technology needs that we must make adjustments to the current revenue split system. By making these changes, we intend to accelerate the pace of our growth and achieve our goal of becoming the largest music licensor in the world.
The new model will be as following:
1) Licensing fees will now be 35% to the artist, 65% to Pump Audio/Getty Images
2) This change will take place as of July 1, 2009. Any royalties payable through June 30, 2009 will not be affected by this change
3) Performance royalty splits will remain at 50% of the publisher’s share
4) Those that don’t accept the new split will have their music removed from the system no later than December 31, 2009.
5) The rights you granted to us in the original contract do not change
If you have any questions, please email artistrelations@pumpaudio.com.
Please sign the enclosed amendment and send back to Artist Relations.
I have been reading about this development on blogs like the themusicsnob.com here
Pump Audio Reduces Music Licensing Payments
There are lots of comments regarding this move by Getty and Pump Audio, most of them bad, things like;
“That’s defaulting on the contract. If they have a signed agreement with me that states 50/50 and they decide to make changes to the split, they need to have a new contract signed with that agreement, which I will not do, and if they default on my contract and change the terms without my written consent, I will sue them.”
and;
“You have to really stay on top of things with Pump/Getty and I will definitely be looking for alternatives. Just when I was thinking they were cool it turns out to be another artist-leaching corporation”
I’d also like to quote Scott Hallgren, Owner/composer/producer at Scootman Music Productions http://www.scootmanmusic.com
Scott has contacted his rep at Pump Audio with some direct questions and received these as replies
1. Nacia at Pump couldn’t promise me the problems they’ve been having reconciling all of their databases (including, among other things: incorrect contact, PRO, and direct deposit info) are going to be fixed anytime soon. Even with all the new bodies, notice none are dedicated to admin…
2. She also informed me that Pump would now be giving their ‘clients’ UP TO A YEAR to report usage. Not pay, just report! So an artist could conceivably be waiting for 2+ years for payment if the bi-annual reporting didn’t fall in one’s favor.
3. I’ve also learned from another source that Pump are 15 months behind in registering their PRO info.
Scott goes on to say:
I have music in the PumpBox and have gotten a placement, but after this and the forced addition of our content to iStockPhoto.com (without receiving the benefits that people who joined iStock of their own volition, natch), I’m beginning to wonder if I need to ‘beat feet’ and let my participation die a natural death…
I think one of the reasons behind the success of Partners In Rhyme and www.musicloops.com and www.sound-effect.com is that we are a company run by musicians, first and foremost we think of our musicians above all else because we know first-hand what it is like to try to make a living at composing music.
It is difficult in that musicians are just that, musicians, they do not have MBAs or degrees in marketing and promotion and they are often times completely socially inept. To expect a musician to spend his/her days producing creative work and then ask them to also handle all the business dealings plus the marketing, self promotion, accounting, etc, etc. is a really big ask.
At Partners In Rhyme we are trying to make a place where musicians just have to create, we take of the rest and send them a nice paycheck every month. I can promise you we will never turn “corporate” (even though we are incorporated) and we will always be on the side of the little guy.
50/50 Forever! 
So how do you feel about this new development at Pump Audio?
Do you have music in their library and are you going to keep it there?
Are you also looking for alternatives like these other Pump Audio composers?
Tell us your feelings and what your plans are. It might help other composers figure out their own way forward.
Posted on May 17th, 2009 by admin | View CommentsGUNS! New Sound Effect iPhone App
| GUNS! new sound effect iphone app GUNS! is a collection of 24 different gun sounds including shotguns, machine guns, pistols and rifles from Partners In Rhyme and Lynne Publishing. The sounds are available via buttons on four separate panels and includes loading and racking weapon sounds giving you the ability to play a variety of sounds at the same time without having to scroll through a long list just to change sounds. These sounds were professionally recorded and are being made available from the Partners In Rhyme sound effects catalog (http://www.sound-effect.com/). The sounds available in the Guns Sounds application are listed below. Machine Guns Shotguns Rifles Pistols |
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New Preview Player on Partners In Rhyme
The New PIR Preview Player
Last month we announced our new preview player for the musicloops.com site and this month we have a new preview player for the Partners In Rhyme royalty free music collections site. This new preview player was also created to address customer requests and complaints from the previous player.
The new features include:
1. The new player looks really cool and is much easier to use.
2. There is now a volume control
3. You can turn looping on and off next to the volume control
4. The length of the file playing is now shown in the upper panel
5. Total amount of files, full length tracks, edits and loops are listed.
6. Play, stop, pause and scrub controls have been added.
Check it out here:
Feel Good Music Vol 1
Sonic 4: Disco, Hip Hop, Electro…
Groove Salad Vol 5
Most of the product pages are updated with the new player and we are still waiting one one update to fix the listing bug so that everything lists alphabetically instead of randomly.
Posted on March 29th, 2009 by admin | View CommentsMy New Guitar
Check it out. I’ve been passing this guitar in the window of Guitarland, the guitar shop just down the street from where I live, for about a month now.
I finally justified buying it and MonaoLia says if I get it I have to create a new collection of guitar music to put out on Partners In Rhyme in the next 20 months.
Sounds like a fun challenge.
Sparrow Flame Burst Gretsch Style
Free Scary Halloween Sound Effects
I created a new Horror / Scary / Halloween free sound effects page on the main Partners In Rhyme site. It has genres in the free area like Horror Ambience, Torture Chamber, Haunted House plus Screams, Wicked Laughs, Ghosts and Monsters. All free and ready for you to download.
Click Here For Scary Halloween Sounds
For my blog readers I am making available the Birds in an Abandoned Warehouse sound effect for free to use in your personal and commercial projects.
birds_abandoned_warehouse
(right-click on the link above to download)
We also have a nice Scary Sound Effects Collection available in the Partners In Rhyme store.
And of course we have have a great collection of Horror Music that is perfect for any scary horror film available in the Horror / Suspense genre on Musicloops.com.
Posted on March 8th, 2009 by admin | View CommentsRoyalty Free Music Discounts, Deals and Freebies
We’ve made it super easy to see all of our deals, discounts and specials in one place so you don’t have to search through the entire site to find bargains on royalty free music and sound effects.
We will be updating this every month with new specials.
The really cool special this month is the ‘Stimulus Package’ with two royalty free music and sound effects collections available for free download with every purchase.
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| To do our part to help stimulate the economy by giving entrepreneurs as much music as possible for free to create their new products and venture out on their new endeavors we are giving away two royalty free music and sound effects collections with every purchase.
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On all orders we have a 10% and 20% discount that is applied automatically to the shopping cart as you shop. Once you hit $200 in your shopping cart you will see the 10% discount kick in and once you get above $400 you see the very substantial 20% discount get subtracted from your grand total.
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As if four DVDs of incredible film music weren’t enough we’ve recently added the royalty free film music collection Hollywood Soundtracks Vol 1 to the mix for absolutely free.
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 Our hugely popular collection of 50 of the most recognizable royalty free classical music tracks has just gotten more propular with the addition of 25 classic Tchaikovsky peices for absolutley no charge.Just download and use them. Check out Appollo Symphony Orchestra: Greatest Hits and listen to the 25 beautiful Tchaikovsky tracks that you can download for free. |
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Richard Quest Remix (Deep Hypnotic State)
We’re big fans of Richard Quest and have been twittering with him since he began his show on CCN called ‘Quest Means Business’. The show is cool because he twitters while he is on air.
His voice is of course great for a remix.
(Monalia is playing Melodica and piano)
If you want to download the MP3 you can find it here http://tr.im/gCN5
Ha! Got the twitter stamp of approval from Richard himself!
And now we got a really nice write-up on the CNN blog promoting the track:
Making Music While the Economy Burns
Check out our recent Christian Bale Techno Tirade Remix as well (due to very explicit language this remix is rated NSFW, not safe for work).
Posted on February 20th, 2009 by admin | View CommentsChristian Bale Techno Remix
I just couldn’t pass up a chance to remix the Christian Bale rant. His voice is so melodic and rhythmic when he is going insane. It’s perfect for a remix. This is something we through together in a couple of days just to get something out there before we leave for Paris.
Posted on February 7th, 2009 by admin | View Comments
Interview on ‘The Score’ Website
Check out my interview on the new ‘The Score’ website.
http://filmandgamecomposers.com/blog/?p=196
Emmett Cooke has rebuilt his filmandgamecomposer.com website and it is looking really cool.
The home page is now dedicated to composer interviews.
http://filmandgamecomposers.com/
Posted on December 10th, 2008 by admin | View CommentsNew Composer: Emmett Cooke
We have a new composer uploading tracks to www.musicloops.com, his name is Emmett Cooke and his style is very unique and well suited to a variety of genres. His compositions are deceiving in that they sound simple but the melodies are complex and very effective at evoking specific emotions. Loneliness, hope, longing, joy.
You can see how effective his soundtracks are by viewing this impressive animated short he just did the score for
view ‘Connect Ed’ the animated short
You can see how the music conveys almost all of the emotion in the story, without the music the story would not have the same effect and might no even make sense.
If you’d like you can incorporate Emmett’s music into your own productions by visiting musicloops.com here:
Emmett Cooke’s music available on Musicloops.com
youLicense, soundsnap and audiomicro
I’ve been noticing that a few audio websites are now changing their business models and going with subscription.
Soundsnap.com
Soundsnap is a great place to download royalty free music clips and sound effects and was originally an altruistic concept that I guess eventually had to fall to capitalist ideals. Soundsnap will soon be changing to a subscription model where the user has to pay a monthly fee to download the sounds on the site.
Details are unclear but it is definitely going to change the basic concept of SoundSnap (which I always thought was a great idea).
YouLicense.com
One of the “big players” in music licensing has also announced that they will be going “subscription”. This time however it is on the composers’s end.
It will cost $39.95 every 6 months (or $39.95 every month, I don’t know, it is hard to tell from the wording in their newsletter and on their website) for a musician to post his music to be heard by production companies in need of licensed music.
This does away with their 9% fee for accepted material and puts a mandatory monthly payment on the composer.
They must not be turning much of a profit with their original concept to warrant such a drastic change on the end of the business model that (historically) has the least money.
Audiomicro.com
Audiomicro sells music and sound effects for extremely low prices. I’m not sure what self-respecting composer would upload to a site that pays out $0.50 for the licensing of a full length track.
Their business model seems to be an oxymoron since you can’t have “the lowest prices for the customer” *and* “the biggest payout for the composer” at the same time. It’s simply impossible.
They are also “paying you to upload” when in reality they’re giving a cash advance of $0.50 per track which you have to payback to Audiomicro (by not being paid until you sell that amount of tracks).
A quote from one of their statements is “at least somebody is paying the composers”, they were telling this to Partners In Rhyme who pays out almost $20,000 every month to their composers…
…and our composers get to keep their money
Partners In Rhyme
Partners In Rhyme has always, from the beginning, strived to help composers make a living at what they love to do. We have never charged them to join any of our websites, we have offered advice (that has been taken and profited upon) and we are always investing and developing in new features and ideas to help our family of composers make a living at composing music.
New Composer: Dimitry Lifshitz
Dimitri Lifshitz is one of our favorite new composers and he is uploading some awesome music to musicloops.com right now.
I think the Alt Rock track Feel Alive is probably my favorite, although if you need a super-funky 70′s/techno track try
Get The Funk Out is pretty cool.
Dimitri also has a sensitive side with tracks like, well,
Sensitive and a very impressive comical quality with tracks like
Don’t Misbehave .
Check Dimitri out all of our other great composers on www.musicloops.com.
Posted on September 2nd, 2008 by admin | View CommentsRoyalty Free Jazz Music from Alan Marchand
We’d like to welcome our newest composer to the Partners In Rhyme family,
Alan Marchand is adding his huge catalog of traditional jazz to the www.musicloops.com catalog.
A few of my current favorites are:
Summer Solstice with its steamy, romantic sax melody.
Down Memory Lane with its upright bass and 1930′s feel.
and of course there’s Melodious Thunk
These are all royalty free music clips that you can download immediately and start using in your commercial projects today. If you need that old-time, traditional jazz feel these royalty free music clips from Alan Marchand may be just what you need.
Posted on August 28th, 2008 by admin | View CommentsDigital Music 2.0 (the last day)
The day started (for me) with a panel discussion on digital music and mobile distribution. This was in a separate room from the other 
discussion regarding podcasting. The mobile discussion didn’t have translation and the entire panel was speaking in Spanish. It was basically an hour long Spanish comprehension test for me. I was then invited to a panelist’s lunch by my new friend Sam Levin. It was great to be able to sit down and talk to the panelists over lunch. Everyone had great stories that I could really relate to (and would most likely be extremely boring to 99.9% of the rest of the population). Gerd Leonhard told me about his days at the helm of licensemusic.com during the internet bubble, spending tons of venture capital money with big offices in San Francisco only to crash along with the hundreds of other companies during the time. It actually sounded like lots of fun.
Simon Wheeler of The Beggars Group told me about his day to day accounting headaches. Sheets and sheets of invoices for royalties of pennies all to be added up, accounted for and paid out. We have the same types hassles at PIR but on a somewhat smaller level. It was a good warning to keep building good accounting practices as we grow.
Talked to a couple of people from Pitchforkmedia who I had never heard of before but their music site is apparently very popular.
There were quite a few representatives from various Catalan government agencies and when asked about what they do and how they promoted their service they answered “we have spots on the radio”.
Sam was incredulous, “have you heard of internet!? do have any internet promotion at all?”
To which they replied “we are working on building our website”.
If there is one thing I learned from this entire conference is that the Catalans (for the most part) are firmly stuck in the 80′s.
They go on and on describing how the internet is a terrible thing, people are stealing music! the government must do something to stop these people from stealing our music!! we have to go back to the old days when people bought CDs from us!!!
Good grief! Wake up!
Anyway, the panel on internet payments was promising in the beginning but turned into a “let’s go back to the old days and shut down the internet!” type of argument in due course.
The final workshop called Digital Distribution with the 7 major Spanish digital distributors was about as boring as they come, long Powerpoint presentations, people reading from their scripts with their heads pointing at their shoes.
I left after 20 minutes and enjoyed the rest of the beautiful sunny Barcelona afternoon.
All in all I enjoyed the Digital Music 2.0 conference in Barcelona, it had it’s good and bad points but it was great to be in a roomful of like-minded people for two days.
Oh yeah, there’s also a good chance I’ll be one of the panelists next year.
Digital Music 2.0
Here is an excerpt of some of the discussions resulting from the panels on the first day of Digital Music 2.0:
We need a Networked Music Business. We need a Web-Native Music Business.
What does Music2.0 look like:
1. Respect for the Creators and the Users, first and foremost
2. Based on Access first, then Copy
3. Based on Usage Rights, not (just) Copyright
4. Based on dozens of revenue streams, not just ‘selling copies’
5. Driven by Sharing
6. Driven by Syndication (and users marketing what they like)
7. Decentralized
8. Powered by an entirely new kind of Advertising
9. Multi-platform access but mostly mobile
10. Bundled in other services, basic access ‘feels like free’
11. Open and transparent
Kevin Kelly:
The key is to offer valuable intangibles that can not be reproduced at zero cost, and will thus be paid for:
1. Immediacy – priority access, immediate delivery
2. Personalization – tailored just for you
3. Interpretation – support and guidance
4. Authenticity – be sure it is the real thing?
5. Accessibility – whereever, whenever
6. Embodiment & Experience
7. Patronage – “paying simply because it feels good”
8. Findability & Curation
Today I will be going to the Podcasting discussion, the Mobile Content discussion, the online payments workshop and the final panel discussion called ‘Digital Distribution’.
The conference itself is pretty amazing as it is happening in three different languages. The panelists are speaking in either Catalan, Castalleno or English and they beam out instant translations via wireless headphones.
Very cool.
Digital Music 2.0
One of the many great things about living in Barcelona is that it is a popular place for all kinds of conferences and trade shows. We are attending the Digital Music 2.0 conference this week and I just came back from my first day.
It started off with a ‘where are we now?’ panel discussing the current state of affairs in the distribution of digital music. It basically boils down to people trying to figure out how to make money in a completely new paradigm.
I was surprised to hear how resistant many of the audience members and some of the panelists were to the idea of change. The fact that the record shop as we know it is probably a thing of the past as well as record labels. There is simply no money to be made in this world of $0.99 digital downloads and people seem to be holding on to the old ways for as long as possible.
Some of the quote I heard were “there are no examples of musicians successfully making it on their own using the internet”, “musicians and bands will always need us for distribution, management and marketing”.
I thought I had been transported back to 1996.
There were some great panelists too. The most impressive of the lot were Sam Levin, Gerd Leonhard and Rupert Davies from Virgin Records.
They spoke of new ways for bands to build fan their fanbase using social networking and widgets for promotion. Gerd was especially interesting with his mantra of “get the attention and the money will come”, meaning that people should not be so eager to put a buy button next to everything they upload to the web. Give your product to the people who are interested in it, build a following, get traffic, once you have this attention you will figure out how to monetize it. The goal is to make people want to give you their money instead of forcing them to buy your content before they even know who you are.
I think most of the people that are active in distribution understand this but it sure was a controversial idea to the people in the audience of Digital Music 2.0
Rupert also had some great insights into how tough it getting for record labels these days and that they are constantly dealing with huge changes in the industry and having to adapt to new marketing techniques.
Sam talked about new applications and ideas coming from Silicon Valley, he also gave our company a nice plug in his speech and reinforced Gerd’s comments using our business model as an example.
All in all it was a great time with catered coffee breaks and a cocktail party at a nice hotel at the end of the day.
Here are some links if you want more info:
Panelist: Gerd Leonhard (Media Futurist)
mediafuturist.com
Panelist: Sam Levin (Social Media Consultant)
samlevin.com
Partners In Rhyme Sponsers The Indie Short Film Competition
For the 2nd year in a row Partners In Rhyme has agreed to sponsor the Indie Short Film Competition with a big line up of prizes including collection of music and sound effects from our catalog.
If you are a filmmaker and think you might be interested on entering you can visit their website here
Welcome to the 2nd annual Indie Short Film Competition. This innovative international short film and video competition is a great opportunity for aspiring filmmakers to advance their career, gain recognition and receive international exposure in the filmmaking industry. Entering this filmmaker friendly competition gives you a shot at being discovered by the right people and opening the right doors to get your short films seen by top industry professionals in the filmmaking business.
Enter your short films and/or videos in any of our 10 Categories: Comedy, Drama, Horror/Thriller, Animation, Action/Adventure, Family/Children, Sci-Fi, Documentary, LGBT, and Music Video. Winners will be selected by a judging panel of top industry professionals who are seeking the next generation of creatively talented filmmakers out there. Winners will receive awards, cash prizes , sponsored merchandise & services and also international exposure!
Posted on June 17th, 2008 by admin | View CommentsNew Zealand Travel / Lord of the Rings
Monalia Ventress is a composer / sound designer and co-founder of Partners In Rhyme, Inc., she is also an author and has her first novel, Horizontal Rain: Memoirs from Middle Earth, available for purchase on Amazon.com.
It tells the story of our travels through New Zealand, Indochina, Indonesia, Australia and more along with detailed and exclusive ‘making of’ stories about The Lord of the Rings films which I worked on while we were living in New Zealand.
Here is the jacket blurb from the book:
Mona-Lia and Mark are two ex-scenesters living in Hollywood who uproot their recording studio, two dogs and burgeoning Internet company and move to New Zealand where Mark has landed a visual effects job working on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Both of their lives change completely for better and worse. Mark begins working inhuman hours and is swallowed whole by his new job while Mona-Lia travels around the Southern Hemisphere to escape the domestic stress and strain his new job causes. Mona-Lia and Mark rediscover themselves and each other in their quest to explore new and exotic lands such as Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Tokyo, Samoa, Fiji and Bali. This three year journey is filled with detailed accounts of the making of the visual effects of The Lord of the Rings films along with in depth observations on what it is they learned about leaving their home, friends and family in California to live and work in a new country.
If you’re interested at all in how Partners In Rhyme Inc came about and grew into what is today then check out Horizontal Rain: Memoirs from Middle Earth.
Stress Relief
We all need a bit of stress relief now and then. For those of you who just need a quick fix while you’re doing the rounds on the web you might want to bookmark our Guided Relaxation and Stress Relief product page where you can get a free 6 minute fix of guided relaxation to wind you down and relax you so you can get through the next few hours of the day without losing the plot.
Check out this link for Free Stress Relief
Royalty Free Classical Music
You can now download high quality royalty free classical music to use in your commercial project for a low, one-time fee at:
Royalty Free Classical Music
These royalty music clips were performed by a real symphony orchestra playing the most popular favorites from these famous composers:
Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz, Bizet, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Dukas, Dvorak, Elgar, Grieg, Handel, Haydn, Liszt, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Mussorgsky, Offenbach, Pachelbel, Paganini, Parry, Ponchielli, Puccini, Purcell, Respighi, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rossini, Satie, Schubert, Schumann, Smetana, Sousa, Strauss, Suppe, Tchaikovsky, Traditional, Verdi, Vivaldi, Von Weber, Wagner
Some royalty free music websites will charge you up to $370.00 to use this music in your broadcast TV show or film. Royalty Free Classical Music only charges $34.95.
Posted on May 16th, 2008 by admin | View CommentsPartners In Rhyme Visiting the USA
Partners In Rhyme is a US corporation but we are based in Barcelona, Spain. We are currently visiting family and friends and taking care of misc business in California. We are fortunate to be staying at a nice bungalow right on the beach at the end of Topanga Canyon Rd.
We have been catching up with some of our LA based composers while staying here.
Our first visitor was Bob Mann who I have known for almost 30 years now. He is the composer for our Auraspheres ambient music collection and a contributor to musicloops.com.
Mark and Bob
Tonight we met Gayle Ellett and his wife who had just flown in from New Zealand. We had a wonderful chat with them over a bottle of wine. Gayle has been part of Partners In Rhyme for a very long time now and has been a steady contributor. His latest collections are Exotic Acoustic and Dreamscapes.
Mark and Gayle
Paul Black is a friend of mine since the early punk days back in Hollywood. We have been in a few bands together and have always made great music together.
Paul was a founding member and lead singer of LA Guns who are now on a comeback trail with a new record deal and worldwide tours.
It was great to catch up with Paul again after more than 10 years. We sang songs for each other and talked about old times and old friends. Paul is also a film composer and might be contributing to the Partners In Rhyme catalog in the future.
Paul Black and Mark
Sam Levin is Using Musicloops.com Music
Sam Levin from CoolMacPicks.com
is using royalty free music clips from musicloops.com or his Barcelona Digital Music 2.0 iPod slide show and for all of his new Mac Product Review podcasts
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