CLICK HERE FOR NEW MUSIC AND SHOWS 2008! • ONPA SHOW 2008 • Johanna

WELCOME TO THE SOUNDBYTES CD PROJECT • music site main page

CLICK HERE FOR NEW MUSIC AND SHOWS 2008! • ONPA SHOW 2008 • Johanna

The CD documents some of the music used in various Plain Dealer projects in 2007. I always create complete songs but usually only a small segment is used on the Web. The SOUNDBYTES project features entire compositions. This page also features some music that never made it to cleveland.com and is still waiting. Make selections by clicking song titles on CD label below. Some links:

Learn more on my music Web site • Get some background • Learn about Logic Express here ... and here • See music preview page • Return to fobes.net • Exploding a myth • It gets personal • Some additional thoughts • What's a good song?

GENRE GUIDE: Like rock? play 3; like jazz? play 1, 7, 12, 14 or 15; like Latin? play 8 or 9; like classical? play 6, 10, 11, or 13; like atmospherics? play 2, 4, 5 or 16.

WHY CREATE MUSIC?

It's about as simple as this: As a Web producer you eventualy get past straight news video and into the feature end of things, and you start to think, “I really wish I had some music for this segment!” Just ask Dale Omori!

But you can't just pull a song off a CD because you don't want to pay a royalty every time someone calls up the video; not even Mediastorm wants to spend that kind of money! And you soon realize, much to your surprise, that royalty-free music is NOT FREE, and you realize that it's hard to find something that works even if you're willing to pay for each song. Brian Storm reported that he spent three days searching royalty free sites for just one project!

So, as a Web producer you hope some crazy idiot on staff gets psyched up about creating audio for your video. I am that crazy idiot.

Demo and update on the Johanna project
Miracle Marine show for Memorial Day
Kalish Bowling Night slide show starring Eustacio Humphrey
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A couple of early cover designs. All graphics done on Photoshop CS3. Web site created using Dreamweaver. Everything was done on a Mac — but of course!