Partners In Rhyme Blog

We have a new composer uploading tracks to www.musicloops.com, his name is Emmett Cooke and his style is very unique and well suited to a variety of genres. His compositions are deceiving in that they sound simple but the melodies are complex and very effective at evoking specific emotions. Loneliness, hope, longing, joy. You can ...

I’ve been noticing that a few audio websites are now changing their business models and going with subscription. Soundsnap.com Soundsnap is a great place to download royalty free music clips and sound effects and was originally an altruistic concept that I guess eventually had to fall to capitalist ideals. Soundsnap will soon be changing to ...

Dimitri Lifshitz is one of our favorite new composers and he is uploading some awesome music to musicloops.com right now. I think the Alt Rock track Feel Alive is probably my favorite, although if you need a super-funky 70′s/techno track try Get The Funk Out is pretty cool. Dimitri also has a sensitive side with ...

The day started (for me) with a panel discussion on digital music and mobile distribution. This was in a separate room from the other discussion regarding podcasting. The mobile discussion didn’t have translation and the entire panel was speaking in Spanish. It was basically an hour long Spanish comprehension test for me. I was then ...

Here is an excerpt of some of the discussions resulting from the panels on the first day of Digital Music 2.0: We need a Networked Music Business. We need a Web-Native Music Business. What does Music2.0 look like: 1. Respect for the Creators and the Users, first and foremost 2. Based on Access first, then ...

One of the many great things about living in Barcelona is that it is a popular place for all kinds of conferences and trade shows. We are attending the Digital Music 2.0 conference this week and I just came back from my first day. It started off with a ‘where are we now?’ panel discussing ...

For the 2nd year in a row Partners In Rhyme has agreed to sponsor the Indie Short Film Competition with a big line up of prizes including collection of music and sound effects from our catalog. If you are a filmmaker and think you might be interested on entering you can visit their website here ...

Monalia Ventress is a composer / sound designer and co-founder of Partners In Rhyme, Inc., she is also an author and has her first novel, Horizontal Rain: Memoirs from Middle Earth, available for purchase on Amazon.com. It tells the story of our travels through New Zealand, Indochina, Indonesia, Australia and more along with detailed and ...

We all need a bit of stress relief now and then. For those of you who just need a quick fix while you’re doing the rounds on the web you might want to bookmark our Guided Relaxation and Stress Relief product page where you can get a free 6 minute fix of guided relaxation to ...

You can now download high quality royalty free classical music to use in your commercial project for a low, one-time fee at: Royalty Free Classical Music These royalty music clips were performed by a real symphony orchestra playing the most popular favorites from these famous composers: Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz, Bizet, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Dukas, Dvorak, ...