Shockwave-Sound Blog and Articles
Harnessing the Power of Sound: Behavior and Invention
Sound is a force of nature that has its own special and unique properties. It can used artistically to create music and soundscapes and is a vital part of human and animal communication, allowing us to develop language and literature, avoid danger, and express...
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Google Close Captions Sound Effects
Google, ever the inventors of new technology and the owners of YouTube.com, have broadened their work into the area of sound effects, specifically through the audio captioning on their YouTube network. Traditionally "closed captions," which provide text on the screen...
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The Inspiring and Musically Powerful World of DIY Instruments
What is a musical instrument? It is an object that creates sound for the purpose of creating music. The definition of “music” is a topic for another post, but for our purposes here let’s assume that we all know what music is, or at least have our own interpretation...
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Full Sail University and Point Blank School: Real Alternatives to Traditional Post-Secondary Education
Traditionally, post-secondary education in Western culture for years has been hinged on both parents and students desiring education that “rounds out” the student’s mind, ie a “liberal education.” This concept of the liberal education still commands the trajectory of...
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A lovely movie with music supplied by Shockwave-Sound
Our customer and movie director Christopher Robin Collins has launched his film "Little Thief", which is now available to buy or rent through Amazon. Little Thief, Amazon U.S.: www.amazon.com/dp/B00GQAXO2E Little Thief, Amazon...
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Polish Folk Music focus at Shockwave-Sound.com
Polish folk music performers From the monumental Tatra Mountains in the south, through Lower Silesia on the west with its large number of medieval castles, Lesser Poland with the great City Of Cracow and Magic Wieliczka Salt Mine, Lubelskie Region on the east with...
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Incredible scenery from Norway set to our music
Talented and hard working videographer Jan Inge Larsen has produced an impressive nature video in 4K resolution, from the Helgeland district in the north of Norway. In this beautiful video you can see amazing northern lights and the beauty of the wide open landscapes...
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United Nations project with music donated from Shockwave-Sound
We were contacted by the Manhattan Multicultural Counseling, a United Nations project working with youths and human rights. They asked us to donate a music track free of charge for their video about youths memorizing all 30 United Nations declarations on human rights,...
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Three brand new, royalty-free Jazz music albums
Hi all, we are very happy to announce the release of three new Jazz albums today: Fresh Jazz, Vol. 5: 12 tracks of upbeat, feelgood jazz. Easy Jazz, Vol. 1: 11 tracks of laid back, breezy, pleasant jazz. Latin Jazz Vol. 1: 11 jazz tracks with a Miami / Cuban / Latin...
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10 Music Documentaries to Binge-Watch on a Free Weekend
Many films have been made about music and the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle of those who produce it. Here we list, in no particular order, some of the best and most successful music documentaries to hit the screen, both big and small, over the last five decades. So pick a...
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“Super Condensed” track list now available
Hi all, today we are launching a new feature / improvement to our stock music website www.Shockwave-Sound.com: The Super condensed view. On any track listing (search result, genre browse, mood browse, etc.) you can now choose between the:...
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A couple of small improvements at Shockwave-Sound.com today
Hi all, today we have launched a couple of small upgrades / improvements to our music browsing process: In the list of music tracks, the "PLAY" button now changes to a "PAUSE" button for the currently playing track, so you can easily see which track is playing, and...
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Happy Birthday Song now available royalty-free
The Happy Birthday Song (Happy Birthday To You) is one of the most famous and most used, most sung compositions in contemporary history. Despite this, you haven't been able to find this song / melody as a royalty-free music download anywhere, until now. Why? Because...
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10 Unforgettable Electronic Movie Soundtracks
Most Hollywood films use orchestral arrangements in their scores to engage the audience and help express a wide range of emotions. But synthesisers and computer based music can offer an entirely new experience and enhance the film in many unpredictable ways. So here’s...
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Dan Morrissey – special Artist feature
If you're a regular user of Shockwave-Sound.com you've probably seen the name Dan Morrissey (full name Daniel Peter Morrissey) mentioned as the artist and songwriter for many of our tracks. In fact, with 742 tracks in our database at the time of writing, Dan is...
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Classical Piano Favorites Vol. 2 – and why it’s so great!
Classical Piano Favorites Vol. 2 (2016) Dear customers, visitors, passers-by and everyone who might stumble across our site today.. Today at Shockwave-Sound.com we released our new album Classical Piano Favorites, Vol. 2. I just wanted to take a moment to write a few...
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Where can I find royalty-free rap music with vocals / lyrics?
We received this question through our support contact form yesterday. A customer was looking for stock music / production music library of vocal rap music. Whilst we do have some music in this category for royalty-free licensing and immediate download, it may not be...
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From the Mind to the Page: A Composer’s Tips for Optimizing your Creative Process: Part 2
By Lukas StanleyIf you haven’t already read Part One of this article, I would recommend reading that first. It can be found here: http://blog.shockwave-sound.com/2015/07/from-mind-to-page-composers-tips-for.html In Part One, I discussed how to make the most of your...
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Mechanical Rights administration and stock music / production music
As I'm writing this article, my target audience is composers / musicians who would like to get into the business of writing music for stock music / production music, and who does not yet fully understand the way in which the administration of your Mechanical Rights...
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Using the “Advanced Browse” music search at Shockwave-Sound.com
Here at Shockwave-Sound.com we are proud to unveil what we believe is the most powerful, most flexible and most useful royalty free music search engine anywhere. You can find the Advanced Browse by clicking the orange link in the left-hand menu of Shockwave-Sound.com,...
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A video for the track “Rising Up” by Isha Erskine Project
We publish a lot of new music every week and we wouldn't have any chance of producing a video to promote every single track, but track #18,483 in our stock music catalog is Rising Up by the Isha Erskine Project, and we decided to spend some extra time on having a...
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Copyrights and Wrongs
Is music plagiarism cut and dried or are there still ‘Blurred Lines’? Throughout the history of music there have been melodies, rhythms and lyrics that closely resemble existing compositions. So is it clear in the eyes of the law when homage, inspiration or musical...
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Focus on classical music this week
Good quality, royalty free classical music, is hard to come by. That's just a fact. Why? Because hiring an orchestra, with studio time and engineer, is extremely costly and time consuming. It's a process that requires meticulous planning and preparation and costs "a...
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Spotlight on our latest releases
Hi all, I wanted to take a few minutes this Friday afternoon to present our latest three CD-collections! Voyage is an amazing musical journey into strange worlds, somewhere between the distant past and the near future. This semi-orchestral, detailed and creative...
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Paypal trouble today
Dear customers/visitors, Paypal are experiencing problems with transactions today. Customers have been paying for goods and receiving payment receipt emails from Paypal, but the transactions are "lost" somewhere for several hours before we receive the money in our...
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New version of Shockwave-Sound.com launched today
Dear friends, users, visitors of Shockwave-Sound.com. This weekend we are launching the newly redesigned Shockwave-Sound website. We hope that you will enjoy using it. The new site features a slick, new design, more modern and perhaps more pleasing to the eye -...
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Three amazing new album releases: Ambient Mysteries, Lite Rock, Spirit of India & Middle East
I wanted to take a moment to stop for a moment to make a bit of an announcement of the three great new stock music / production music albums we have released over the past week or so here at Shockwave-Sound.com: Ambient Mysteries Vol. 1 represents a new series for us,...
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Order #200,000 placed at Shockwave-Sound.com today
We are very happy to be able to announce customer #200,000 today in our online shopping cart system / database. Well, it's not actually customer #200,000 but rather order #, because we have a lot of repeat customers and there won't be 200,000 different customers, but...
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Special release feature: “Secret” by Peter Cavallo
We don't write a blog feature about every new track or album we release here at Shockwave-Sound, because our poor readers would not be able to keep up with the constant stream of new music tracks and collections being published. For example, over the past 7 days we...
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A video for Isha Erskine Project – Falling Down
One of our regular writers / musicians Isha Erskine submitted a new track for licensing this week, a really great vocal ballad, with a certain Enya / Clannad / Moya Brennan kind of vibe and with a superb female vocal performed by Michelle Lockey. We put together a...
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