Stephen Arnold Music, known for its Sonic Branding®, has announced a significant expansion of its production music library, The Vault, which now encompasses more than 125,000 tracks.
The Vault has experienced steady growth, most recently adding more than 50,000 unique titles from BMG Production Music, a division of one of the world’s largest record labels and featuring highest quality music by globally acclaimed composers. In addition, The Vault includes top tracks from the London-based production music powerhouse PMOL, Australian advertising music-house Song Zu, the Swiss Composer Collective H2U, hip-hop producers Anno Domini Nation and The Artist Collection, featuring dozens of GRAMMY-nominated and indie artists.
Staffed with international composers and music supervisors, Stephen Arnold Music is called upon regularly to aurally differentiate the brands of CNN, ESPN, HBO, The Golf Channel, Nat Geo, UPS, and dozens more media outlets. The Vault extends that commitment by providing service and expertise to production music library clients in advertising, sports, broadcasting, TV production, corporate/industrial, film, branding, streaming content and more.
The Vault’s intuitive user interface makes it easy for busy content creators to find the perfect soundtrack to their projects. Recent Vault placements include CBS’ Blue Bloods, Match.com, Toyota, UFC headline fights, UPS, and Xbox.
“With over 125,000 tracks of up-to-the-minute music and sound design, The Vault is a powerful musical solution,” affirmed Chad Cook, VP creative for Stephen Arnold Music.
Tilda Swinton Explores Assisted Suicide In Pedro Almodóvar’s 1st English-Language Feature
Although "The Room Next Door" is Pedro Almodóvar's first English-language feature, Tilda Swinton notes that he's never written in a language that anyone else truly speaks.
"He writes in Pedro language, and here he is making another film in another version of Pedro language, which just happens to sound a little bit like English," Swinton said.
Set in New York, Swinton stars as Martha, a terminally ill woman who chooses to end her life on her own terms. After reconnecting with her friend Ingrid, played by Julianne Moore, Martha persuades her to stay and keep her company before she goes through with her decision.
Beyond the film's narrative, Swinton said she believes individuals should have a say in their own living and dying. She acknowledges that she has personally witnessed a friend's compassionate departure.
"In my own life I had the great good fortune to be asked by someone in Martha's position to be his Ingrid (Julianne Moore)," Swinton said.
She said that experience shaped her attitude about life and death: "Not only my capacity to be witness to other people in that situation, but my own living and my own dying."
Swinton spoke about "The Room Next Door," Almodóvar and he idea of letting people die on their own terms. Remarks have been edited for clarity and brevity.
Q: Tackling that role, what was the challenge to get into the character?
SWINTON: I felt really blessed by the opportunity. So many of us have been in the situation Julianne Moore's character finds herself in, being asked to be the witness of someone who is dying. Whether that wanting to orchestrate their own dismount or not, to be in that position to be a witness is something that I've been... Read More