Audio Network supports the use of music in Schools

Audio Network Plc, the award-winning film and television music company, today announced the launch of a campaign to support the use of music in school film and multi-media projects.

The Campaign is designed to overcome the problems being experienced by schools licensing the use of music for use in their audio-visual projects and to give the next generation of filmmakers access to the same high quality music and sound resources used by the international film and television community.

The record industry has threatened legal action against schools for encouraging the illegal use of music and schools have struggled with the complexities of clearing rights on a song by song basis with music publishers and record companies. This has meant that, until now, the only music available for [legal] use in school multi-media projects has been low quality ‘copyright free’ material.

Audio Network uniquely own all publishing and recording rights in their entire music catalogue which now stands at over 5,000 tracks and over 40,000 sound effects. The company provides music and sound effects covering every style and subject.

Audio Network was formed in 2001 as a collective of 100 leading composers and Hollywood Sound Designers to bypass the complex licensing problems being experienced by film/television producers seeking access to music for use in their programmes. Audio Network is now turning its attention to solving the problems being encountered by schools and is making its entire music collection available to schools for little more than the cost of supplying the music on compact disc.

Evelyn Glennie OBE, John Dankworth CBE and Dame Cleo Laine three of Britains most active supporters of music in education participate as both shareholders and composers in Audio Network.

The Audio Network music and composer biographies can be previewed at www.audiolicense.net together with details of the offer being made available to schools.

To start the campaign Audio Network music and sound has been donated for use in an on-line course at http://www.dvtraining.org.uk entitled Creativity in the classroom using digital media developed by Denbigh ICT Centre in conjunction with the Times Education Supplement.

Audio Network is also offering a special introductory rate for schools to purchase sixty Audio Network CDs, recorded by many world famous ensembles and musicians covering every style of music, for a single payment of just £3 per CD.

Audio Network have agreed to grant free licences covering unlimited synchronisation use in educational audio-visual productions and projects up to 31st December 2004 to all schools who purchase a set of sixty CDs before 30th June 2004.

Audio Network has also agreed to grant schools who take advantage of this offer the opportunity to renew their annual audio-visual licence for subsequent years for the heavily discounted price of just £150 per annum.

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Editor’s Note:

About Creativity in the Classroom

Denbigh ICT Centre is recognised in the UK as having expertise in the delivery of high quality training in the use of Digital Video in education. Through a partnership with Film Education we have been running courses for teachers and advisors for the last two years. To support this expertise Denbigh ICT Centre set up a support network Web site at www.dvined.org.uk which has had over 2 millions visits since April 2004 and now averages 5000 visitors a day. This site has resources, advice, tutorials, discussions and news posted to it on a regular basis.

To support the training of teachers in Denbighshire the centre has developed a range of online courses using Open Source software. Using this experience Denbigh ICT Centre in conjunction with the Times Educational Supplement has developed a course entitled Creativity in the classroom using digital media. The course has been given support from third parties such as the Advanced Media Group, Apple, Audio Network plc, Kudlian software and Talkingbooks.org in the form of resources and will be featured in the Times Educational Supplement of 14 May 2004. It will be covered in creativity and ICT articles in the Teacher and Online supplements and on a CDROM given away with the TES. The course will include free downloads of royalty free music (including professional musicians like Evelyn Glennie), music loops, audio books, sound
effects, digital images, two free computer programs for education, tutorials and advice about using these resources creatively in the classroom.

The course address is now: http://www.dvtraining.org.uk

To enter the course there is an enrolment key to be published in the Times Education Supplement or obtainable from Denbigh ICT Centre