We’ve added a new “Suggested Production Type” to the music browsing tools at Shockwave-Sound.com: “Weather Forecast”. Here we present music that we feel goes well with TV Weather Forecasts; you know the type you can see on CNN and other broadcasters where they just display the weather in different parts of the world. Here are […]
Author: Bjorn Lynne
Bjørn Lynne is a Norwegian sound engineer and music composer, now living and working in Stavern, Norway. He was also known as a tracker music composer under the name "Dr. Awesome" in the demoscene in the 1980s and 1990s when he released tunes in MOD format and made music for Amiga games.
New preview player with waveform display
We’ve designed and released a new and updated preview audio player here at Shockwave-Sound. The new player features a graphic waveform display so that you can see where the music gets louder and quieter. Useful if you need to plan the use of the music in your project, how it will match up with your scenes etc. […]
Shockwave-Sound.com music making good in Aralon
From time to time we get whiff of a project where we think our music is part of something really pretty cool, so we want to brag about it a little bit. 🙂 Aralon: Sword and Shadow HD is a role playing game for the iPhone and iPad that looks and plays more like what […]
Mess FilmMakers film, shot with a cellphone
It’s pretty cool what you can do these days, armed only with a cellphone, a lot of time and talent, and of course, access to a good quality stock music library and voiceover talents. 🙂 Luis Mieses from Zaragoza, Spain – aka Mess FilmMakers – has produced two really cool trailers / short films. We […]
New look track display with “Find Similar Tracks”
Hello folks, About a month ago we launched our new, powerful music browsing tool. This weekend we are pretty pleased with ourselves again 😉 because we are unveiling our new style track display. The new track design can be seen by browsing or searching any music on our site, and it looks like the picture […]
Choosing Music For Short Film Projects
by Simon Power Film making requires ingenuity in many different fields. One priority is matching the mood and atmosphere of your story with the right music. In this article, we speak to directors and short film makers about how to get the best music for your movie score without blowing the budget. Part One – […]
Happy Birthday To You – royalty free music? Actually, no…
We got a call from a customer who was looking to buy the classic “Happy Birthday To You” song as royalty-free music. We didn’t have the track and at first both the customer and myself found it a bit odd. But I found out that in fact this track is still under copyright to two […]
Browse music by historical eras
We’re always working on improving and diversifying the ways that you can browse and search for music here at Shockwave-Sound.com, and this week we’ve added the possibility to browse for retro music by decade. By clicking on Suggested Production Types you can see a panel similar to the one shown here on the left. You […]
New ways of browsing for music at Shockwave-Sound.com
We’re very happy and excited to announce the new music browsing tool here at Shockwave-Sound.com. Our site and music catalog has come a long way since the first beginnings back in April 2000 and it was no longer enough to simply be able to look at a music genre and see hundreds or even a […]
Royalty-Free music with real orchestra
The state of royalty free music / stock music has come a long way since the rather bland, generic sounding electronic tracks of the 1980’s. As the music library business has “grown up” so to speak, the talent, effort, time and money put into library music recordings have increased gradually. We are now at a […]
