Music creators rating the music libraries.
In the last few months I have been spending a lot of time analyzing my BMI statements, cue sheets, Tunesat reports and reconciling all of them. It’s a massive job with tons of detail but it’s nuts and bolts stuff and, like any business, it’s the details that matter. Fortunately BMI has been very helpful in making sure I get paid.
In digging through all of this I have been amazed at how much better sport placements, coupled with shows talking about sports, pay in performance royalties.
by Claire Batchelor
As library composers it’s sometimes difficult to stay inspired and motivated. I’ve outlined some ideas which I use to stave off de-motivation, demoralization, lonelines
s, and the dreaded writers block. If you’re anything like me, you’ll probably read this article, think it’s useful (hopefully), and then do nothing! However, I would really urge you to try a couple of these things out. The reward you feel from creating a new track which you’re really happy with, and have created using a couple of totally fresh ideas, will be worth it!
by Robin Munson
9/13/2014
Art and I have just returned from the Production Music Conference hosted by the PMA. The event proved to be very enjoyable and enlightening.
There were two “tracks” of lectures, one focusing on the creative side, and the other on the business. The two tracks were presented simultaneously, apart from the keynote addresses.
Unfortunately, we were unable to get to the event early enough to hear the first keynote speech from Jeff Beal. This was a real disappointment for us, as Mr. Beal is one of our favorite composers. If anyone was there for that we’d really appreciate your sharing some of the highlights. His work is so varied, extensive, and inspiring! Among his many scores are “Ugly Betty”, “Monk”, and a personal favorite, “Jesse Stone”. But reading through his bio in the PMC program, I see that this is only a tiny fraction of an amazing body of work. So sad we weren’t there! Also, unfortunately, we had to leave early to beat the L.A. traffic out of town, which means we missed a number of informative panels. Next year we will plan to be there the whole day.
We did get to attend “Trailer Music: New Trends, Modern Techniques”.
Too hilarious not to share.
We have talked a number of times about the best practices of backing up ones data. Currently I have I have three HD backups of everything and I rotate one of those drives offsite to a safe deposit box. I was using an Amazon S3 account to back up data to the cloud but soon realized that while the price was reasonable for small amounts of data, large amounts would be too costly. Enter Amazon Glacier.