The Audionetwork Blog : documentary

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 ...

Music in Documentaries - A Nordic Adventure

By: Simon Marett
Date:: 30 Sep 2011

I always love travelling to Scandinavia and I visit Norway on a regular basis (my wife is Norwegian) so when the opportunity came up to attend Nordisk Panorama, a major annual Nordic documentary festival in Aarhus, Denmark, I jumped at the chance. This was a great opportunity to learn more about the use of music in documentaries from the Nordic region and practice my NorwegIan language skills - much needed! The Nordic region is a vital territory for Audio Network and I wanted to gain a good understanding ...

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 ...

Audio Network, the first 10 years

By: Andrew Sunnucks
Date:: 19 Jul 2011

I’m often asked where Audio Network comes from and how it got going. Since we are now 10 years’ old, now seems to be as good a time as any to try and tell our story. In the beginning It all started in the summer of 1999 when Robert Hurst and I were in LA. We were both working for a major music publisher – me as the Media Director and Robert as the Finance Director. At one meeting with a well known producer, we were given a particularly hard time about how difficult and complicated ...

Music in Filmmaking - Sheffield DocFest 2011

By: Juliette Squair
Date:: 14 Jun 2011

Sheffield DocFest Just back from a highly successful visit to this year’s DocFest. Audio Network held two music rights workshops, “Clearing Rights and Creating Revenue” hosted by our Rights Manager, Simon Anderson and guests, lawyer Andrew Baker from Rights TV and Glyn Middleton from True North Productions. I was delighted to chair our panel debate, “Making Music Work in your Film: Drive the Narrative”. Making Music Work in your Film Our ...

Music Rights at Sheffield DocFest

By: Simon Anderson
Date:: 07 Jun 2011

Music Rights Surgery Having held Audio Networks ’ first Music Rights Surgery last year at DocFest I’m delighted to be heading back there next week. We’re hosting two workshops this time, as well as a panel debate. Judging from the response we got last year, music copyright is such an important part of filmmaking, it seemed a good idea to have a couple of workshops on the subject. Just how do you clear those music clips? What exactly are the issues ...

Audio Network supports DFG's 10 X 10 event at East End Film Festival.

By: Ebona Eastmond-Henry
Date:: 04 May 2011

East End Film Festival Some colleagues from Audio Network and I attended The East End Film Festival last week. We were supporting the great work that the DFG do - the DFG is the national organisation working to promote documentary filmmaking talent and innovation in the UK. The work they do aims to encourage, stimulate, promote and support the growth of a strong community of documentary filmmakers and film audiences and we at Audio Network are proud to work alongside and support ...