The Audionetwork Blog : music clips

Don't Reach for that Remote!

By: Chris Brooke
Date:: 17 May 2012

[Disclaimer: this blog post is a bit nerdy] When I tell people what I do for a living, often the first thing they ask me (or the second thing, after: ‘Really? That’s a job?’) is ‘why are the adverts on TV so loud?’ I explain that I’m not really responsible for that, but that it’s something to do with advertisers wanting to grab your attention, and a lack of coherent legislation on volume normalisation across broadcast audio. And that’s usually the ...

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 ...

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 3rd Annual Music Pub Quiz

By: Lina Tebbs
Date:: 11 Aug 2011

Last Thursday night we hosted our 3rd Annual Audio Network Pub Quiz. Music Prize Teams from The Telegraph; PRS; Blue Tuna and Objective Productions were just a few who pulled together to try and win not only the respect of everyone in the room, but the equally tempting £100 first and £50 second prize. As well as the cheerily familiar standard quiz rounds like Music Intros and General Knowledge, we saved the best for half way through. Knowing how clued up these teams were on guessing ...

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 ...

Audio Network Mixes at Cannes Lions

By: Nick Woollard
Date:: 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 ...

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 ...

Production Music meets Electro-Swing

By: Bob Bradley
Date:: 02 Jun 2011

Electro-Swing It has been described by MixMag as the sound of 2011. It is dominating the cool underground club scene in London and Brighton and new nights are emerging up and down the country. It has already become massive throughout Europe. Music, Fashion & Dance The sublimely decadent club nights are decorated with people dressed fittingly in tailcoats and wingtips, flapper dresses and feather boas, fascinators and fedoras and some impressively waxed moustaches. Vintage fashion will ...