By Lukas StanleyIf you haven’t already read Part One of this article, I would recommend reading that first. It can be found here: http://blog.shockwave-sound.com/2015/07/from-mind-to-page-composers-tips-for.html In Part One, I discussed how to make the most of your creativity by effectively setting a writing schedule that coincides with your creative peaks during the day, having a plan […]
Mechanical Rights administration and stock music / production music
As I’m writing this article, my target audience is composers / musicians who would like to get into the business of writing music for stock music / production music, and who does not yet fully understand the way in which the administration of your Mechanical Rights through an organization such as GEMA, MCPS, STEMRA etc. […]
Using the “Advanced Browse” music search at Shockwave-Sound.com
Here at Shockwave-Sound.com we are proud to unveil what we believe is the most powerful, most flexible and most useful royalty free music search engine anywhere.You can find the Advanced Browse by clicking the orange link in the left-hand menu of Shockwave-Sound.com, just below “Artists”. The Advanced Browse page allows you to combine multiple search […]
A video for the track “Rising Up” by Isha Erskine Project
We publish a lot of new music every week and we wouldn’t have any chance of producing a video to promote every single track, but track #18,483 in our stock music catalog is Rising Up by the Isha Erskine Project, and we decided to spend some extra time on having a video done to this […]
Copyrights and Wrongs
Is music plagiarism cut and dried or are there still ‘Blurred Lines’? Throughout the history of music there have been melodies, rhythms and lyrics that closely resemble existing compositions. So is it clear in the eyes of the law when homage, inspiration or musical parody becomes outright musical theft? History Repeats Itself Despite the controversy […]
Focus on classical music this week
Good quality, royalty free classical music, is hard to come by. That’s just a fact. Why? Because hiring an orchestra, with studio time and engineer, is extremely costly and time consuming. It’s a process that requires meticulous planning and preparation and costs “a small fortune” to get it done. In the “stock music scene” there […]
Spotlight on our latest releases
Hi all, I wanted to take a few minutes this Friday afternoon to present our latest three CD-collections! Voyage is an amazing musical journey into strange worlds, somewhere between the distant past and the near future. This semi-orchestral, detailed and creative soundtrack contains 15 intriguing tracks with a sense of curiosity and amazement. These tracks […]
Paypal trouble today
Dear customers/visitors, Paypal are experiencing problems with transactions today. Customers have been paying for goods and receiving payment receipt emails from Paypal, but the transactions are “lost” somewhere for several hours before we receive the money in our Paypal account or our site receives IPN signal from Paypal, which causes customers not to receive the […]
New version of Shockwave-Sound.com launched today
Dear friends, users, visitors of Shockwave-Sound.com. This weekend we are launching the newly redesigned Shockwave-Sound website. We hope that you will enjoy using it. The new site features a slick, new design, more modern and perhaps more pleasing to the eye – although, of course, that is a matter of personal preference. Shockwave-Sound.com new site […]
Three amazing new album releases: Ambient Mysteries, Lite Rock, Spirit of India & Middle East
I wanted to take a moment to stop for a moment to make a bit of an announcement of the three great new stock music / production music albums we have released over the past week or so here at Shockwave-Sound.com: Ambient Mysteries Vol. 1 represents a new series for us, being the first volume […]
