Stephen Arnold Music, known for its Sonic Branding®, has announced a significant expansion of its production music library, The Vault, which now encompasses more than 125,000 tracks.
The Vault has experienced steady growth, most recently adding more than 50,000 unique titles from BMG Production Music, a division of one of the world’s largest record labels and featuring highest quality music by globally acclaimed composers. In addition, The Vault includes top tracks from the London-based production music powerhouse PMOL, Australian advertising music-house Song Zu, the Swiss Composer Collective H2U, hip-hop producers Anno Domini Nation and The Artist Collection, featuring dozens of GRAMMY-nominated and indie artists.
Staffed with international composers and music supervisors, Stephen Arnold Music is called upon regularly to aurally differentiate the brands of CNN, ESPN, HBO, The Golf Channel, Nat Geo, UPS, and dozens more media outlets. The Vault extends that commitment by providing service and expertise to production music library clients in advertising, sports, broadcasting, TV production, corporate/industrial, film, branding, streaming content and more.
The Vault’s intuitive user interface makes it easy for busy content creators to find the perfect soundtrack to their projects. Recent Vault placements include CBS’ Blue Bloods, Match.com, Toyota, UFC headline fights, UPS, and Xbox.
“With over 125,000 tracks of up-to-the-minute music and sound design, The Vault is a powerful musical solution,” affirmed Chad Cook, VP creative for Stephen Arnold Music.
First-Time Feature Directors Make Major Splash At AFI Fest, Generate Oscar Buzz
Two first-time feature directors who are generating Oscar buzz this awards season were front and center this past weekend at AFI Fest in Hollywood. Rachel Morrison, who made history as the first woman nominated for a Best Cinematography Oscar---on the strength of Mudbound in 2018--brought her feature directorial debut, The Fire Inside (Amazon MGM Studios), to the festival on Sunday (10/27), and shared insights into the film during a conversation session immediately following the screening. This came a day after William Goldenberg, an Oscar-winning editor for Argo in 2013, had his initial foray into feature directing, Unstoppable (Amazon MGM Studios), showcased at the AFI proceedings. He too spoke after the screening during a panel discussion. The Fire Inside--which made its world premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival--tells the story of Claressa “T-Rex” Shields (portrayed by Ryan Destiny), a Black boxer from Flint, Mich., who trained to become the first woman in U.S. history to win an Olympic Gold Medal in the sport. She achieved this feat--with the help of coach Jason Crutchfield (Brian Tyree Henry)--only to find that her victory at the Summer Games came with relatively little fanfare and no endorsement deals. So much for the hope that the historic accomplishment would be a ticket out of socioeconomic purgatory for Shields and her family. It seemed like yet another setback in a cycle of adversity throughout Shields’ life but she persevered, going on to win her second Gold Medal at the next Olympics and becoming a champion for gender equality and equitable pay for women in sports. Shields has served as a source of inspiration for woman athletes worldwide--as well as to the community of... Read More