Sound is a natural phenomenon, and music is this natural phenomenon harnessed and morphed by human minds and hands: an evolution of sound based on the principles of physics. Below we explore various expressions of this relationship between music/sound and the natural world. The “Elegy for the Arctic” In some instances, as in the following, […]
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New technology adding new gestures to musical expression
Modification of music makers Music and sound invite all forms of creativity and invention. Most likely as soon as the hand drum was invented, the mallet took shape. The hand drum gave rise to drums of all shapes and sizes, played with all forms of materials and came to utilize hands as well as legs […]
The Loudness Wars: Over-Compression and its Impact on Music Quality
Let’s go to eleven It is common professional practice for a mixing and mastering engineer to normalize tracks and apply the proper compression to maximize the punch of sound: it’s called loudness, or the loudness wars. This is the skills and tactics of skilled sound engineers and the reason why musicians like myself hire […]
A summary of our latest stock music albums
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.64″ background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” border_style=”solid”] With Christmas and New Year coming up once again, we hope that you are well, busy, and working on some new great projects. Here at Shockwave-Sound we have – as ever – been busy with developing new albums and tracks of Stock Music, […]
Dmitri Belichenko – Special Artist Feature
For a good few years now, Dmitri Belichenko has been a regular contributor of new music released by our label, Shockwave-Sound / Lynne Publishing. His music tends to be electronic, but with orchestral elements and use of sound design as part of the compositions and production. Often raw and unforgiving, his productions – some of […]
Round-up of latest CD collections of royalty-free music
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.64″] Another month or so has passed since we last did a write-up of our latest collections of royalty-free music and stock music, so here’s another little update from us. Among other new albums, we have a beautiful new album of royalty-free String Quartet […]
Free sound effects pages back by popular demand
Back in the good old days, when our site Shockwave-Sound.com had the “old style” look and feel, and about half as much content as we have on the site now, we used to have a selection of “Free sound effects” pages. It wasn’t really anything very fancy, just a bunch of pages from which users […]
New royalty-free music round-up
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.64″ background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” border_style=”solid”] We are always busy with music projects and we tend not to post a new blog post every time we release new stock music here at Shockwave-Sound because we’d be constantly posting blog posts. So here’s a re-cap of our latest CD-collections of […]
Special artist feature: Abbas Premjee
For the past few years, among the many different artists from all over the world who regularly supply music for publishing via Shockwave-Sound, Abbas Premjee has been one of the more prolific and active ones. He has composed many great tracks of stock music for Shockwave-Sound. I was intrigued by the varied musical output and […]
New Stock Music highlights for September 2017
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.64″] We hope you’re well and that you’re working on some great projects. Here at Shockwave-Sound we have – as ever – been busy with developing new albums and tracks of Stock Music, now available for immediate licensing and download. [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.64″][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.64″ […]
