Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Bjorn Lynne & Tommy Tallarico Royalty Free Music and Sound Effects
I wrapped up another quick infomercial spot for a client, and was grabbing snippets for my portfolio. While looking over other clips, it occurred to me... Over half of them feature royalty free music and sound effects from Bjorn Lynne and Tommy Tallarico.
Whenever foundries have sales, I like to pick up assorted royalty free fonts, clip art, photographs, sound effects and music. Often times, I get bulk packages for $20 ~ $100, of which I'll eventually use here and there. I've never singled out a modern composer/designer before, with the sole exception of Bjorn Lynne and Tommy Tallarico (and a few loops and stingers by Emmett Cooke).
Tommy Tallarico should need no introduction to anyone who's been involved in the game industry in the last decade - He's composed music for many acclaimed games, IMO his best being Wild 9 and Earthworm Jim 1 & 2, and has had plenty of face time on G4 TV. His studio produces an invaluable volume of around 20,000 sound effects and musical stingers, for something like $400 with a discount - The SFX Kit - and was worth every penny. Unlike many other collections, this was better suited for user interfaces, web design, games, animations and videos.
They're fairly unique in most fields, so you won't likely have many overlaps with other projects, unlike the BBC and DeWolfe collections whose effects I hear all the time (I hear their shotgun blast and camel sounds effect all the time).
Bjørn Lynne is fairly popular amongst us Amiga gamers, or fans of electronic dance/trance music. I bought one of my favorite CD's from him, Chris Huelsbeck's epic Turrican 1 & 2 soundtrack (back when it was still hard to get game soundtracks). I use a lot of his loops and stingers for presentations, webpages, live product demonstrations and more. Almost any good music and sound effect foundry has Bjorn Lynne's work on it.
Since I'm really REALLY not a musician... In all honesty, I don't even listen to much music. All my music comes from $5 PC speakers, or a cheap-o MP3 player. As such, I depend on high-quality royalty free composers to cover my butt. Audio is often a big, if under appreciated, part of presentation, so I depend on great composers like these.
Cross-posted on my Livejournal - Bjorn Lynne & Tommy Tallrico Royalty Free Music and Sound Effects
Whenever foundries have sales, I like to pick up assorted royalty free fonts, clip art, photographs, sound effects and music. Often times, I get bulk packages for $20 ~ $100, of which I'll eventually use here and there. I've never singled out a modern composer/designer before, with the sole exception of Bjorn Lynne and Tommy Tallarico (and a few loops and stingers by Emmett Cooke).
Tommy Tallarico should need no introduction to anyone who's been involved in the game industry in the last decade - He's composed music for many acclaimed games, IMO his best being Wild 9 and Earthworm Jim 1 & 2, and has had plenty of face time on G4 TV. His studio produces an invaluable volume of around 20,000 sound effects and musical stingers, for something like $400 with a discount - The SFX Kit - and was worth every penny. Unlike many other collections, this was better suited for user interfaces, web design, games, animations and videos.
They're fairly unique in most fields, so you won't likely have many overlaps with other projects, unlike the BBC and DeWolfe collections whose effects I hear all the time (I hear their shotgun blast and camel sounds effect all the time).Bjørn Lynne is fairly popular amongst us Amiga gamers, or fans of electronic dance/trance music. I bought one of my favorite CD's from him, Chris Huelsbeck's epic Turrican 1 & 2 soundtrack (back when it was still hard to get game soundtracks). I use a lot of his loops and stingers for presentations, webpages, live product demonstrations and more. Almost any good music and sound effect foundry has Bjorn Lynne's work on it.
Since I'm really REALLY not a musician... In all honesty, I don't even listen to much music. All my music comes from $5 PC speakers, or a cheap-o MP3 player. As such, I depend on high-quality royalty free composers to cover my butt. Audio is often a big, if under appreciated, part of presentation, so I depend on great composers like these.
Cross-posted on my Livejournal - Bjorn Lynne & Tommy Tallrico Royalty Free Music and Sound Effects
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