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“Pick Your Guitar Package” Giveaway!

UPDATE:  We have our winner! Watch the drawing here » It’s guitar giveaway time here at Stephen Arnold Music. This time YOU get to pick your prize from one of three terrific packages! Each package includes: a guitar, amp, strap or microphone, and a cord To ENTER, just listen to some new, compelling playlists from The Vault: International  |  Serious Drama  |  Uplifting Then leave your comment below, and you’re […]

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Stephen Arnold: “Mistakes are the stairways to greatness”

Founded by Arianna Huffington, Thrive Global covers self-help, wellness advice and lifestyle. Its goal is to help readers reconnect with themselves and learn techniques for maintaining balance in order to live their best life. The original article is available here. By Yitzi Weiner, A “Positive” Influencer As a part of my series about how leaders create a “fantastic work culture,” I had the pleasure of interviewing Stephen Arnold, founder of […]

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Stephen Arnold Music Adds 200,000 New Tracks To Library

by Paul Greeley, TVNewsCheck Stephen Arnold Music has expanded its production music library, The Vault, by adding BMG Production Music, one of the world’s largest international music companies. The majority of 187,396 added tracks are new to the U.S. market. Stephen Arnold Music, often referred to as the most-heard, least-known composers in the world, has expanded by adding BMG Production Music, one of the world’s largest international music companies, to […]

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Stephen Arnold Music Creates Custom Sonic Brand & Music Package for Relaunch of Court TV

Bold orchestrated sounds enhance dramatic gavel-to-gavel legal programming DALLAS,TX – (May 29, 2019) – The recent relaunch of Court TV introduced new a new sonic brand and music package created by Stephen Arnold Music, The World Leader in Sonic Branding®, for the respected network devoted to live, gavel-to-gavel coverage, legal reporting and expert analysis of the nation’s most important and compelling trials. The Texas-based company utilized all live orchestration to […]

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Station Summit 2019 – SAM JAM and It Smells Like a Guitar Giveaway!

The annual Promax Station Summit is upon us, and Stephen Arnold Music (SAM) will be there with the best music in the local broadcast television industry. We hope to see you there. If you are attending the conference, then save this date: Thursday night, June 20th. That’s when we’ll be hosting our 9th annual “After Hours SAM JAM” featuring the versatile Byron Bordeaux and his band. This year we’re jammin’ […]

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Sonic Branding Roundup

Sonic Branding Roundup

The critical importance of sonic branding is now recognized across every industry. Aural elements drive engagement, social sharing, purchase decisions, and loyalty like never before. It’s extremely gratifying for all of us at Stephen Arnold Music to collaborate on so many immensely creative campaigns. Here’s what we’ve been up to lately: CourtTV Court TV is a 24-hour network with extensive live programming, so the custom music package built around a […]

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Happy Holidays! KPIX-TV/CBS San Francisco, The SF Boys Choir & Skywalker Sound

KPIX-TV/CBS San Francisco, the first television broadcast station in Northern California, celebrates a major milestone this year. KPIX went on the air with its inaugural broadcast, 70 years ago, on December 22, 1948. Also, seventy years ago, history was made with the founding of the renowned San Francisco Boys Chorus. Stephen Arnold Music collaborated with KPIX and Ian Robertson, the chorus director of the San Francisco Opera and the San […]

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5 Ways Music Affects the Brain

Music is more than just something that’s nice to have on in the background. It has powerful, far-reaching impact on your brain, and helps drive much of your behavior. Take a look at these research examples and see if you can identify these reactions in yourself! 1. Music Triggers Emotions One of the first things that happens when music enters our brains is the triggering of pleasure centers that release […]

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6 Brand Benefits of Sonic Branding

It’s no longer effective to just depend on a logo or a graphic identity to solidly brand a product or service. Sound travels much faster than imagery to the brain, and is processed in the same structure where decisions are made. In fact, hearing a sound helps predict what we are going to see as a visual! “According to a report by Medical Daily, a new study from the Institute […]

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