Music Composed for the Birds – I Mean BY the Birds

Thanks Carla!

Are You Using Twitter?

I now have a personal Twitter account http://twitter.com/gillesarbour

We also have a business Twitter account for Premiumbeat.com, our Royalty Free Music website http://twitter.com/premiumbeat

Don’t know much about Twitter?  That’s OK! Here is a post I wrote in our business blog about it: Twitter

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Joyeux Noël / Merry Christmas!

Les anges dans nos campagnes – version végétarienne

Angels We Have Heard On High – The Vegan version

Premiumbeat.com Royalty Free Music Library Presents its Classical Music Collection

Francois and I are really excited about our Royalty Free Music library. It is expanding very nicely and we recently added lots of classical music – over 600 tracks! Here is the Press Release about it.

From this Press Release Newswire:

Premiumbeat.com, an international provider of high quality Royalty Free Music, unveiled its new selection of Classical Music tracks today.

Montreal, Canada (PRWEB) November 6, 2007 — The Royalty Free Music library at Premiumbeat.com has now expanded its collection to include over 600 Classical music tracks that are now available for instant licensing.

Following its recent acquisition of Royalty Free Classical Music from the Apollo Symphony Orchestra, a production music orchestra, Premiumbeat.com has gained access to music assembled from the best classical musicians and singers of UK and Europe. This music has been digitally re-mastered for optimum sound quality.

“Classical music is truly timeless. It has the ability to move us today just as it did centuries ago,” says Gilles Arbour one of the partners at Premiumbeat.com. “I still have the old gramophone that my grandmother used when she listened to her classical music, and now I find that I listen to practically the same music that she would, over a 100 years ago! Classical music is a part of our collective consciousness and has strong cultural durability.”

The stock music in the Royalty Free Music library at Premiumbeat.com now includes a wide variety of tracks, from the baroque, classical and romantic era right up to the works of 20th Century composers, such as Satie, Holst and Respighi. Patrons can now choose from virtually all categories of music: symphony, concerto, ballet, opera, marches, string quartet and piano solo from composers such as Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Vivaldi, Handel and Tchaikovsky.

Religious music is another well-stocked category with magnificent work such as Schubert’s Ave Maria, Handel’s Hallelujah or Bach’s Magnificat.

“Classical music is a must for dinner,” says Ode Sabourin, food aficionado and piano teacher in Montreal. “Mozart’s piano concerto will lift your spirit, soothe your mind and ready your stomach for good food and nice wine.”

She’s not alone. A British study claims that restaurant owners can increase their profits by simply playing classical music. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Leicester in Central England, concluded that the music of Mozart, Beethoven and Bach makes diners feel more affluent.

“We’re happy to include a lot more orchestral classical music and classical religious music to our royalty free music library,” says Francois Arbour of Premiumbeat.com. “This music can trigger an emotional response that is rarely equaled by modern music.”

Premiumbeat.com is constantly adding new music to its royalty free music library. Its team of 25 professional musicians creates new, premium quality stock music and flash loops for web designers, interactive marketing agencies, video artists, motion designers, film makers and TV and radio show producers.

Premiumbeat.com, a royalty-free music library, is the creation of Francois Arbour and Gilles Arbour. Francois Arbour is an award-winning Macromedia certified Flash Developer, and has been working in the multimedia industry for more than 10 years. Gilles Arbour has trained thousands of people in sales and marketing in the last 20 years. Both have seen, over and over, how music moves people to action.

To see (and hear) more, go to www.premiumbeat.com.

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Fred Chichin of “Les Rita Mitsouko” died yesterday

This is very sad news. When we met, my wife Guylaine and I used to dance around the house listening to their French megahit Marcia Baila from their 1984 album. Ironically that song is about a dancer who herself died of cancer. We have been listening to this song all day yesterday with tears in our eyes.

Goodbye Fred – your music lives on.

From a news report:

Photo: www.ritamitsouko.com

Fred Chichin, the guitarist who founded the popular French pop group duo Rita Mitsouko, has died aged 53 of cancer, record label Because and concert organiser Corida said in a joint statement Wednesday.

Chichin, who formed the group in 1979 with his partner, singer Catherine Ringer, died after falling ill only two months ago. The group had had to cancel a string of recent concerts, including one on Wednesday evening at Paris’ famed Olympia concert hall.

Rita Mitsouko’s latest album “Variety” was released in April.

Ringer and Chichin, who in his teens was a fan of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix, chose the name of the group on the grounds that “Rita” sounded South American and “Mitsouko” meant mystery in Japanese.

Their first hit, the 1984 tune “Marcia baila”, was a latino-rock piece written to pay homage to Argentine dancer Marcia Moretto, who died of cancer. It sold more than a million copies.

Their 11 albums carried rock, funk, punk, ska and latino sounds, as well as a dose of humour.

Holiday/Christmas Royalty Free Music Library Expanded at Premiumbeat.com

Francois and I are really excited about our Christmas Music library this year. We have all kinds of interpretations to offer, from Soft Jazz to Hard Rock, even Hip Hop versions of traditional Christmas Carols. Cool stuff!

From this Press Release Newswire:

Premiumbeat.com, an international provider of high quality Royalty Free Music, today announced the expansion of its large selection of musical tracks for Christmas and the Holiday Season.

Montreal, Canada (PRWEB) October 17, 2007 — Premiumbeat.com has updated and expanded its Royalty Free Christmas Music library to better serve its growing clientele. Christmas music has always been an essential part of any media production for the holiday season. Corporations and businesses regularly use it on their websites and in e-cards to enhance their online holiday presence. Christmas music is also a major part of the offline media, such as TV and radio. What’s more, clients are often treated to music-on-hold that plays to the tune of Christmas during this period.

“Nothing brings out the holiday spirit better than Christmas carols and songs,” says Gilles Arbour, partner at Premiumbeat.com. “It lifts our mood and brings joy and a sense of festivity.”

No wonder then that in its forecast for the upcoming 2007 Holiday Season, the National Retail Federation predicted that sales will rise this year to $474.5 billion. And a Fox News Poll showed that the winter holiday season is the most important segment of the year for North American retail businesses, often accounting for more than half of the total annual revenues, as almost 96 percent of US citizens, both Christian and non-Christian, celebrate the spirit of Christmas.

“Christmas music affects us very deeply,” says specialty food shop owner Nelly Castonguay. “When we hear a song that we listened to as kids, it immediately triggers cheerful memories. We become instantly receptive.”

Music is recognized as a very effective shortcut to instant mood building, and with online Christmas sales increasing year after year, savvy retailers are using it to reach their businesses goals for the Christmas season. An excellent strategy given that, retailers who once had a localized marketplace are now competing with retailers from around the world for customers.

“This year for the holiday season, we’ve added orchestral classical Christmas music and classical religious music to our Royalty Free Music Library. Plus, we’re also displaying a whole variety of new interpretations of Christmas music from our musicians,” says Francois Arbour at Premiumbeat.com. “Their music will add zest to any holiday presentation.”

Premiumbeat.com is constantly adding new music to its royalty free music library. Its team of 25 professional musicians creates new, premium quality stock music and flash loops for web designers, interactive marketing agencies, video artists, motion designers, film makers, and TV and Radio show producers.

Premiumbeat.com, a royalty-free music library, is the creation of Francois Arbour and Gilles Arbour. Francois Arbour is an award-winning Macromedia certified Flash Developer, and has been working in the multi-media industry for more than 10 years. Gilles Arbour has trained thousands of people in sales and marketing in the last 20 years. Both have seen, over and over, how music moves people to action.

To see (and hear) more, go to www.premiumbeat.com.

Who buys our royalty free music?

Francois (my son) and I are the owners of a Royalty Free Music website. People often ask us this question: who buys your music at Premiumbeat.com? The answer is multiple. We’ve sold music to people and businesses in more than 40 countries on all 5 continents.

Our clients are web designers, flash developers, video producers, photographers, business people, website owners, shop owners… Our music has been used for TV shows and advertising, for websites, videos and audio books. It has been heard in school projects, at Film Festivals, on radio stations and on YouTube. It has been used for meditation CDs, yoga instructions, poetry reading. For a Hip-Hop demo, for a wedding where the 2 people getting married wanted to go down the aisle with a specific piece of country music. It has been used for games on line and off-line. For downloadable software, music-on-hold, background music in a shop, e-cards, elearning programs and documentaries.

I am sure there is a lot more. Royalty Free Music can be used whenever there is a need for music beyond private use such as at home or in your car or on your IPod. It’s a simple, easy and affordable way to get legally access to quality music for any project.

Thèse de doctorat pour le guitariste de Queen

Lorsque Freddie Mercury de Queen chantait «Another one bites the dust», est-ce qu’il parlait de poussières d’étoiles?

Rocker et docteur en astronomie! Brian May a passé la majeure partie de sa vie dans l’univers de la musique rock. Il était pourtant prédestiné à un tout autre univers, celui qui s’écrit avec un U majuscule.
Le guitariste du groupe culte Queen a remis vendredi sa thèse de doctorat en astronomie à l’Université de Londres, où il l’avait commencée en 1974.

Le document de 48 000 mots est intitulé Vitesse radiale dans le nuage de poussière zodiacale. Il avait été remisé dans le grenier de sa maison du Surrey lorsqu’il avait abandonné ses études pour se consacrer à la musique.

L’auteur du succès planétaire We will rock you a décidé, l’an dernier, d’achever son travail universitaire pour tenter d’obtenir son doctorat.

L’homme de 60 ans a dû retourner sur les bancs d’école afin d’intégrer 30 ans de connaissances scientifiques.

Il doit maintenant débattre sa thèse devant un jury de l’Imperial College de Londres, le 23 août. La décision de l’institution est attendue peu après.

Le rocker est déjà détenteur d’un diplôme en physique obtenu à l’université londonienne où il a étudié les poussières interstellaires.

Ses travaux portent sur la théorie selon laquelle les nuages de poussière du système solaire se déplacent dans la même direction que les planètes.

Source: Radio-Canada