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Music: A Tool to Fight Hardship

Here at Silent Media, we believe in the power of music and the innate strength it possesses to heal and induce deep emotion – felt by both the audience and musician alike – through experience or expression.

The Jose Marti Bolivarian School is one such school that also understands the power of music. In the distance a faint bad-ump, bad-ump, bad-umping gradually reveals itself; children haul packages the size of overgrown lunchboxes through the corridors.

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Design Your Home Studio w/ Silent Media

Planning and building a home studio is quite a big task, no? It must take months of research and preparation, right…? Majority of novice artists/musicians seem to think so, often they see it as a gargantuan task. However, initially getting started is a lot simpler than most might imagine. After all, there are only a handful of basic necessities required to start building a robust home studio.

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Limerick and Rhyme, Of Timeless Design – My Little Pony

Hola, fellow jinglers! Here at Silent Media we like to remember the legends, of thematic song crafting, that graced the art before our time.

In our latest series we will be highlighting and critiquing the jingles that accompanied the most influential toys and cartoon characters of all time! Taking a brief look at history and analysing the composers behind the genius we’ll gain insight of what went into cooking these jingles.

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How to cook a jingle by Silent Media

What is the formula of Coca Cola? This and other answers are one of the best kept secrets of humanity together with the formula of eternal youth and travel in time, is not so easily revealed.

Do not worry, in Silent Media we like to talk about what we do. The recipe is simple to cook a jingle you will need these ingredients:

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Our Spielwarenmesse 2017 top ten

Just a month ago we were on the cobbled streets of Nuremberg in search of new musical adventures.

We closed the snack bar for a few days and traveled 2400 km to find out what is cooking at the largest toy industry fair in the world.

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Jingle Bells: Christmas Songs.

The best thing about Christmas is Christmas music. No, not really.

Every year the stores put on the same CD  with those angelic voices that hit notes with exactly the same frequency as Satan himself. All when your brain is blocked and longs for peace, tranquility and above all silence.

Maybe Christmas carols induce us to buy compulsively, who knows. Joking aside, we could not miss the opportunity to dedicate a post to Christmas songs, couldn’t we?

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Do not play music, play toys.

Our motto “Let’s play!” is an invitation to play music in a playful way. And precisely about this we will talk today: music made with toys.

It may sound naive, but there is nothing amateur about it.

There have been many musicians, who in search of new sounds, used toys as musical instruments in their productions. And in Silent Media we like these two things too much: music and toys.

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Grupos infantiles de los 80 y 90

Full stars: 80s and 90s bands for kids.

Have trends changed that much from the 80’s to today?

What were your favorite band for kids?

In Silent Media we make music for children advertising (among many other things) and we try to be aware of the musical trends in general and those of our target in particular. They rule.

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The Jingle: The essential one of advertising.

How many jingles do you know?

Could you list a number of brands just humming the tune of its ad?

Sometimes I wake up in the morning with a song ringing in my head. I can not stop listening to it and in the most unexpected moments I find myself humming it unconsciously. It is not Georgie Dann with her overwhelming and infallible summer songs, nor is my Masiel’s favorite. Then what? It is the song of that ad: a jingle.

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