The Audionetwork Blog : composer

What Kind of Composers Collaborate?

By: Lincoln Grounds
Date:: 08 May 2012

Take a tech based keyboard player with an unhealthy interest in ocsillators and the latest ground breaking software, mix with an organic lo tech musician who likes to get people excited with what ever noise they can extract from antique technology like the guitar, tabla or oud for instance - it could go one of two ways…. Purity We can all appreciate the purity of a focused creation. A Chopin nocturne is perfect – or is it? That statement alone could provoke someone ...

Creating a Musical Collaboration

By: Bob Bradley
Date:: 03 May 2012

The Audio Network family of composers are incredibly focused on their creative vision but on the whole, remarkably open to the rewarding but potentially risky business of collaboration. I recently worked with fellow Audio Network Composer, Lincoln Grounds on our latest album, Classic Quirky Characters Lincoln and I set out to do something that we both have a massive passion for which is early French swing but it soon expanded into our fascination with what is it that makes quirky, jazzy ...

Creating the Indie Sound

By: Gareth Johnson
Date:: 03 Apr 2012

I have written music in lots of styles for Audio Network over the years and over time I have become known for my electronic tracks and in particular my Indie production music . Indie as far as the catalogue goes, describes guitar based music that has energy in its delivery, full of youthful attitude and extremely melodic. It straddles the line between pop music and hard rock. It is never too polished and has a cool swagger. Indie Inspiration I come from a background of playing in bands and ...

Recording at Abbey Road Studios with the RPO: Part Two

By: Chris Egan
Date:: 13 Dec 2011

Chris Egan has just finished recording a Cinematic Blockbuster Movie Extravaganza with the full Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (all ninety of them) at Abbey Road Studio One. Audio Network talks to the man behind the music to find out how he does such a thing… What inspired you to create this type of score? The inspiration is drawn from the wonderful old-school ‘Popcorn Movies’ that I’ve watched since I was a child. I’ve always written from a media composer point ...

Recording at Abbey Road Studios with the RPO

By: Chris Egan
Date:: 07 Dec 2011

What does a Composer do in the lead up to a huge recording with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Abbey Road Studio 1 ? Drinking lots of Red Bull, staying up all night and finessing hundreds of pages of score… Audio Network chats to Chris Egan . What does recording at Abbey Road Studio 1 mean to you? It’s the best sounding orchestral room in the world. It’s as simple as that. There aren’t many studios in the world that can hold a full Symphony Orchestra and a full Symphonic ...

A Journey Through Trip Hop

By: Bob Bradley
Date:: 02 Dec 2011

Trip Hop changed my life more than any other music style. It was the movement of my generation. Down tempo ultra cool beats fused with classic old samples, sparse female vocals and lush string arrangements. It all kicked off with Bristol's 'Wild Bunch' (otherwise known as Massive Attack) and their first record 'Blue Lines'. But it was their follow up 'Protection' that got me hooked and mildly obsessed. Shortly after, Tricky (kid) left Massive Attack and released his very own debut Maxinquaye, which ...

Synaesthesia - a sensory sensation

By: Carrie Russell
Date:: 30 Nov 2011

Synaesthesia – how does music affect our senses? How can a certain chord or song make us see a certain colour or conjure up a particular image? Audio Network explored these questions with an ‘Evening of Music and Pictures’ at the Soho Hotel last week along with a room full of TV producers, creative directors and music experts. First up was Ruth Dockwray, Muscologist and Lecturer in Popular Music at Southampton University. Ruth explores 'the sound box' - in this case how we hear ...

Audio Network's New Music Website

By: Simon Marett
Date:: 12 Oct 2011

The new and improved music website from Audio Network It’s been over 12 months in the making but today, Wednesday 12th October, we’re delighted to unveil our new music website at beta.audionetwork.com . We’ve listened to our customers’ feedback from around the world and we hope we’ve created a website that provides a better music and customer experience right across the site. ‘Easier, Quicker, Simpler’ is what you asked for so that is where’s we’ve ...

My Decade as an Audio Network Music Composer

By: Barrie Gledden
Date:: 04 Aug 2011

As Audio Network celebrate their first decade as a successful music publishing library, I can’t believe it’s also been my first ten years as an Audio Network composer. What a journey it’s been! In 2001, as a budding composer, I was working with musicians who were telling me about the great things Andrew Sunnucks and Robert Hurst were proposing to do at their new music rights cleared library, Audio Network. I met with them and was offered a contract to compose ...

A Journey into Dance Music

By: Gareth Johnson
Date:: 19 May 2011

A Journey into Dance Music Growing up in London has been the single biggest factor on my musical journey with dance music. London is a multicultural melting pot of people from around the globe and this ensures that we always have a rich and vibrant music scene that’s packed full of eclectic elements as we absorb ideas from each other in this melting pot of a city. Background Music to the 70’s London was the city that gave the world punk rock in 1977 with the Sex Pistols and the Clash. ...

Music – An Unusual Listening Experience

By: Dame Evelyn Glennie DBE
Date:: 11 May 2011

For those of you who know I am profoundly deaf, it might come as a shock for me to write about listening to music. However, it cannot be assumed that I, or others who are deaf, have no relation to music and hearing. For me, music is a form of communication bringing together the essential ingredients of rhythm, pitch, tone, timbre, dynamics, structure and most of all feeling and sensation. Understanding music and what is “good” or “appropriate” to listen to and what is not, ...

The Bluffer’s Guide to Composing Royal Wedding Music

By: Andrew Sunnucks
Date:: 13 Apr 2011

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } The world has gone mad for Royal Weddings. The media has left no stone unturned in its search for a new angle, opinion or insight; commentators draw significance from the tiniest utterances of Will or Kate often seeking the inside track from their loosest acquaintances. Silkworm experts are giving their views on Royal Wedding dresses, village halls are gearing up for japes and frolics and health and safety experts, ...

Music Publisher Audio Network’s Composer of the Month for April is JOHN 00 FLEMING

By: Andrew Sunnucks
Date:: 05 Apr 2011

So we do this composer of the month thing, and since people are known to titter at the name John OO Fleming, I though it was time to introduce him properly and declare him Audio Network’s Composer of the Month for April 2011 . Introducing a National Treasure John is an internationally famous DJ. Radio 1’s Pete Tong described him as “A national treasure of trance music”. He endlessly circumnavigates the globe, frequently playing multiple continents in a single weekend. ...