This blog is a notepad relating to my research into how large collections of music are organised by record companies and music publishers so film makers can easily find what they're looking for.
Using music in films, tv shows, commercials, computer games is known as synchronisation, or synchronization depending on whether you're from Covent Garden or Hollywood. Call me old fashioned, but I prefer synchronisation with an 's'. But to make it easier I'll just call it synch.
Finding music in large collections is called Music Information Retrieval. There are some very talented people working on some amazing tools to help find stuff you like. I'm hoping to help them with my research into how real professionals search for music.
Every now and then I will be writing about some great use of music in a movie etc. It may be Super Freak by Rick James in Little Miss Sunshine or Bellamy Brothers 'Let Your Love Flow' in the Barclaycard commercial. Whatever rises to the top (or sinks to the bottom) is worthy of comment.
Tonight I go see Tarantino's 'Inglourious Basterds'. If his music use in Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill 1 and 2 is anything to go by there's gonna be something worth listening to.
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