Stephen Arnold Music had an award-winning run at PromaxBDA 2010. First we won the prestigious “Network Sound Off,” as FOX network executives chose Stephen Arnold Music’s score to launch their new drama “Ride Along,” by the creators of “The Shield.” The :90 promo will debut during Super Bowl XLV. In addition, we took home two Gold awards at the conference: “Use of an Original Composition in a Promo, New Orleans […]
Read More »We’d like to congratulate Larry Forsgren on winning the online drawing for the Apple iPad:
Read More »At yesterday’s PromaxBDA Network Sound Off, Fox network execs selected our score to launch their new drama series “Ride Along,” (from the producers of The Shield), which breaks during SUPER BOWL XLV. How cool is that! Yesterday’s session featured us against three other top music houses on stage competing for this high profile assignment. Thanks to the Fox judges Brian Dollenmayer, SVP, On-Air Promotion and Creative Marketing, Matt Fife, VP-Creative […]
Read More »UPDATE: Registration is closed. The drawing will be held shortly. UPDATE: We’ve received so much interest in this giveaway, we’ve decided to extend the registration period until 2:00PM CDT Wednesday, June 30th. The drawing will be held shortly thereafter. Thanks to everyone for registering, and good luck! It’s that time of the year again. Time to head off to PROMAX/BDA 2010. And guess what? We’re giving away four spiffy new […]
Read More »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 […]
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