“And what’s interesting is the agency usually comes back and says ‘this is amazing, how did you… this sounds, like, better than our music productions! This is, like, so authentic! This has grip! This seems like the Beatles in the garage!’ And I said ‘that’s what every agency guy wants.’ They want to find the […]
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Audio Logos: An Interview with Dr. David Allan – Part 1
“It certainly adds another sense to sight, you know, and most of the people that I talk to, you can see a logo, but sound really helps you to feel a logo.” — Dr. David Allan My next guest is a professor of marketing at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has a […]
Finding the Fix: An Interview with Aaron Matthews – Part 2
“It’s about doing something that’s relevant to that brand that makes people, you know, have intrigue and then go either search for it or find out more information.” — Aaron Matthews This episode’s the second half of my interview with audio branding expert and creative director Aaron Matthews as we talk about how Creative […]
Finding the Fix: An Interview with Aaron Matthews – Part 1
“Production companies make these amazing videos and then go ‘oh, we need to think about some music and stuff,’ and it sort of like becomes a bit of a rush. But actually, when you think about it at the same time as pre-production and you start planning out how the sound’s going to work with […]
Musical Alchemy: An Interview with Eric Singer – Part 2
“One of the wonderful things about music is that it’s by and large pretty universal, you know, when almost any culture will perceive a minor chord as something that feels sad. Even my 4-year-old son can identify that as ‘oh that’s sad.’ But there are more subtleties too, you know, and that may affect instrument […]
Musical Alchemy: An Interview with Eric Singer – Part 1
“There are generally two things that I want to focus on when presenting the creative to a client. First, and I think the most important, is the why: what is the justification for why we have done this or why we’ve included this instrument, why we’re including this long breakdown section, why this tempo, whatever […]