The Vault by Stephen Arnold Music continues to add top tier talent to it’s Artist Collection. The most recent artist being nine-time Grammy Award winning jazz singer/pianist Diana Krall. Check out “Sunshine Express”
Read More »As the most left-brained musician I know (and the most right-brained tech head), I’ve always approached music like a math problem and computer programming like songwriting. It may seem a little odd, but for some reason it’s always worked for me. So it’s only natural that here at SAM I’ve become the de facto IT department. While it may not appear to be the most creative outlet, you’d be surprised. […]
Read More »As we set out to create the sonic brand and music package for iconic international journalist Christiane Amanpour, we were given a handful of key words for creative direction: Elegant Authoritative Intellectual Classy Serious Not dark Not overly uplifting According to her Wikipedia entry, Amanpour “joined CNN in 1983 as an entry-level assistant” and “worked her way up to an international correspondent in 1990. Her first major assignment was the […]
Read More »Well, we got a great response for the iNews giveaway. Thanks to everyone for participating. And special thanks for all the kind remarks about the music! We’re really proud of this new package, and we’re so happy to see that it resonates out there in the real world. So without further delay, congratulations to: Dave Medley of WLEX-TV — iPhone Eric Christiansen of Film Garden TV — […]
Read More »When we were asked to write the song for CBS Early Show’s new “A Lot Happens Early” promo campaign, CBS called and outlined what they wanted to hear, their objectives, the audience they were targeting, and gave us a few reference tracks. It had to be a song you knew was a hit the first time you heard it. At SAM, we all agreed: Let’s knock the ball out of […]
Read More »Well, we’re back from Vegas. We actually got back late Friday night, but this is the first chance I’ve had to sit down and write anything. Those first few days back from a week out of the office are always a chaotic whirlwind of catch-up. First off I wanna say that it was a blast! We had such a great time; met a lot of cool people. Most importantly, we […]
Read More »We just finished up a 3-part Discovery Channel series; “Cocaine Nation”, “Heroin Nation”, and “Meth Nation.” It was a lot of fun. They like a lot of music. That doesn’t mean that Discovery has an extensive iTunes playlist, oh no. Each 45 minute episode contained about 45 minutes of music. So yeah, the scores are pretty much wall-to-wall. The series explores the drug problems in our country. Pretty compelling stuff. […]
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