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Lincoln Grounds
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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 ...
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Chris Egan
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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 ...
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Chris Egan
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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 ...
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By:
Carrie Russell
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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 ...
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By:
Carrie Russell
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11 Nov 2011
Tweet The Virgin Media Shorts Awards Last night the Audio Network team attended the Virgin Media Shorts Awards. This is the first year we have been involved with the awards, offering all of the film producers and directors’ who are entering use of our production music library for their shorts, meaning they can have a high quality, multi platform cleared soundtrack – made really simple. On arrival we were greeted with champagne and canapés before being led into the auditorium ...
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By:
Kristen Harold
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20 Oct 2011
We live in an era of portability. From your iPad, iPhone, Tablet or Smart Phone you can access anything from anywhere as you need it. The production world is no exception. Post-production is no longer tied to an edit suite, footage can be viewed anywhere, editing can begin on-set and decisions can be made on the go. We kept all of this in mind when creating the new Audio Network website. Music Anywhere When we began production of our new site, we knew we had to shift ...
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Simon Marett
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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 ...
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By:
Simon Marett
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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 ...
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By:
Barrie Gledden
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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 ...
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By:
Andrew Sunnucks
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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 ...
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By:
Nick Woollard
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02 Jul 2011
Cannes Lions I genuinely love Cannes Lions. It conjures up a real mixture of excitement and trepidation - excitement at the opportunity to soak up some Mediterranean sun, but, trepidation at the prospect of plenty of sleepless days whilst retaining the wherewithal to forge new friendships and business opportunities. CFP-E Young Director Awards I arrive with the Audio Network team on the Wednesday and head straight to the CFP-E Young Director Awards. There were some amazing films on show but ...
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Juliette Squair
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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 ...
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Simon Anderson
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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 ...
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Gareth Johnson
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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. ...
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Dame Evelyn Glennie DBE
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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, ...
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Ebona Eastmond-Henry
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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 ...
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Jason Langley
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20 Apr 2011
The Tribeca Film Festival is nearly upon us and everyone at Audio Network is excited by the line up. There are too many inspiring films to name only a few, but after the screenings we’re looking forward to some words of wisdom from Ron Howard, Robert De Niro and Julie Taymor. Of course not everyone from the office can take a week’s vacation, so we have high hopes for the launch of Tribeca Online - a new online platform featuring the very best of the festival. ...
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Kristen Harold
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16 Mar 2011
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Kristen Harold
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11 Mar 2011
My bags are packed, plane ticket is in hand and I’m ready to head off to SXSW! It’s going to be a busy week, but I can’t wait to meet all you Filmmakers out there, hear some great music and of course taste that famous Southwestern cuisine! The Audio Network-Kodak Filmmaker Brunch will be the perfect start to the week. OK - here's a question...what’s better a breakfast burrito or a breakfast taco? We’re looking forward to meeting new friends in film ...
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