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The story of Partners In Rhyme during their years in New Zealand, their travels in the Southern Hemisphere and the making of the mulitple academy award winning films The Lord of the Rings trilogy with Peter Jackson and Weta Digital.
Read excusive behind the scenes stories from the visual effects team that created The Lord of the Rings and follow Partners In Rhyme on their journey through New Zealand, Bali, Japan, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Samoa.
Read the newly published excerpt from Horizontal Rain on Eclectica.org
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PIR Background:
Partners In Rhyme, Inc. has had an online presence since 1994 and became an official ecommerce business in 1996. We originally started out as a group of composers working for former Devo leader Mark Mothersbaugh's Mutato Muzika in Hollywood where we would write music and create sound design for commercials, games, cartoons and TV series. Take a look at the PIR commercial reel.
PIR Websites:
www.partnersinrhyme.com
This is our main website. It includes thousands of pages of free resources for multimedia producers plus a catalog of royalty free music and sound effects collections available for download and shipped on CD/DVD.
www.musicloops.com
This site was created simply to sell individual downloads of royalty free music. It has become more popular than we would ever have imagined both from the composers and the customers.
www.sound-effect.com
This site is one year old now and is also hugely popular for individual purchase and download of royalty free sound effects. We're selling a sound effect every minute or so at this point.
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PIR Goals and Values:
When we formed Partners In Rhyme our main mission was to create our own market where we could distribute our music on our own terms without interference from record labels. We have definitely succeeded in doing that.
Partners In Rhyme has always had a set of simple guidelines for their online presence. They are as follows:
- To provide free resources, help and advice to amateur and professional multimedia producers, film makers, musicians and students in their search for music, sound effects and audio tools to complete their projects inexpensively and quickly.
- To provide affordable, high quality, professionally recorded royalty free music and sound effects with a very generous license for distribution.
- To create an outlet for talented composers to distribute their music and hopefully enable them to earn a living doing what they love.
PIR Charity:
Over the years Partners In Rhyme, Inc. and its composers have have been doing very well. We recently decided that we would all give a percentage of each of our sales back to help communities in need.
Take a look at our PIR Charity information page to learn more.
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| Who We Are |
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Mark Lewis (CEO/Composer)
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Mona-Lia Ventress (President/Composer) |
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Mona-Lia Ventress is co-founder and President of Partners In Rhyme. She is an Emmy nominated composer and also takes care of accounting and oversees shipping for Partners In Rhyme, Inc.
Mona-Lia is a travel writer. Her new book entitled Horizontal Rain (available on Amazon.com), is the story of her experiences living in New Zealand and traveling throughout countries like Bali, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Read an excerpt from the book published on eclectica.org
She is also one of the PIR composers and main sound designer for the sound effects library.
You can hear her music on these collections: Metro Mix, Multi Media Music Vol 1 and Vol 2, Quirky Loops and Islands.
You can find out more about Mona-Lia Ventress on her website at www.monalia.com. |
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Juan Sanchez (Composer) |
Guru Prasanna C S is our main programmer and systems designer. He comes up with creative solutions for our ecommerce websites and makes our checkout processes stream-lined, reliable, secure and easy to use.
He works for us out of his office in Hyderabad, India. We hired him through Harvest Technologies (p) Ltd.
He comes highly recommended by us for all programming needs. |
Juan Sanchez works and lives in Mataro, Spain near Barcelona. Mona-Lia and I had the great pleasure to meet with Juan in person during Christmas 2004 when we were visiting and now that we live in Barcelona Juan has become a good friend. We truly appreciate all the help he gave us when we first arrived.
Juan is the composer of the ambient chill Spin Doctor collection. |
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Peter Bell (Composer)
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Robin Nathan (Composer)
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Peter Bell is a versatile guitarist and songwriter and his Partners in Rhyme collection called Southwest Guitar shows that.
Skilled in the studio, he has composed and produced theme music and scoring for New Yankee Workshop, Victory Garden, The ABC After School Special, and the PBS and Time/Warner National Syndication of This Old House.
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New Zealand composer Robin Nathan has many credits to her name. A founding member of When the Cats Been Spayed and producer for the popular children's music duo Fatcat and Fishface she also writes music for New Zealand television and radio.
In 2002 Robin teamed up with Partners In Rhyme composer Mona-Lia Ventress to form Queen Pong. The Quirky Loops and Islands collections are a result of this collaboration.
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Gayle Ellett (Composer)
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George Oliver (Videographer)
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Gayle is a very talented musician and producer living in Topanga, California. You can hear is work on the Royalty Free World Music and Royalty Free Christmas Music collections.
His newest collection of royalty free music is called Dreamscapes. The music in this collection incredibly powerful and mysterious and is performed by Gayle's band Djam Karet.
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George Oliver recently joined the Partners In Rhyme team but is a long time friend. He has been filming and documenting beautiful scenery from around the world and Partners In Rhyme has made his work available as affordable royalty free nature footage collections. George lives in New Zealand after returning from a 6 month stint in Antarctica where he spent time collecting more amazing footage from the bottom of the Earth. You can download individual clips from George's website at naturelibrary.com.
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Jacek Dojwa (Composer)
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Jonathan Geer (Composer)
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Jacek Dojwa has been composing music since 1994.
He produces music for games, commercials and multimedia presentations but also designs sound effects for websites. Jacek is also a part of two polish music projects, Auralplanet (together with Adam Skorupa) and Husky (electro-pop band). In 2002 his author's album was released by EMI music company in Poland.
Jacek is the composer of one of our most popular collections Groove Salad Vol 3 and Groove Salad Vol 4.
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Jonathan Geer is a solo electro-acoustic artist, born and raised in Texas. He is an amazing composer of cinematic music. The tracks he has created for our Hollywood Soundtracks Vol 2 are moving and dramatic with beatiful melodies. We are very excited that John has chosen Partners In Rhyme to distribute his music.
You can hear Jonathan's music on Hollywood Soundtracks Vol 2, the follow up to the very popular Hollywood Soundtracks Vol 1.
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Dan Dugan (Sound Designer)
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Jacky Schreiber (Composer)
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Dan is a great friend of Partners In Rhyme. He has inspred us with his knowledge of nature recording and has helped us with equipment recommendations when buying recording gear. Through his involvment with Nature Sounds Society he has shown us how truly important it is to capture and preserve the sounds of nature before they are gone forever.
Dan is reponsible for our New Zealand Nature Sounds collection, you can learn more about Dan and what he does on his website at www.dandugan.com.
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Jacky is a guitarist/composer/producer living in Caracas, Venezuela, and has been involved in the music scene there for the last 20 years, he has composed/produced music for the theater, dance, tv shows and films and is three times winner of the national prize for composition (chamber and orchestral music).
Partners In Rhyme offers his collection of beautiful orchestral and incidental music in the Passing Moments collection. |
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Jeff Curry (Composer)
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Dan Levitan (Composer)
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Jeff resides in Tokyo Japan where he leads his own quintet playing original material. He is also playing with a variety of groups in the jazz and pop vein. Jeff joined the Partners In Rhyme crew in 2005 with his very popular Authentic Jazz collection. |
Dan Levitan has been with Partners In Rhyme from the beginning with Dramatic Loops, very popular collection of cinematic royalty free music.
Dan resides in the Los Angeles area where he works in the film industry. |
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Mark Petrie (Composer)
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Torror (Composer)
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Awarded a full scholarship, Mark went to boarding school at age nine until graduating at 17, and it was here that he learnt music. After graduating, Mark traveled to Berklee College of Music in Boston to study film scoring. He now resides in the US, composing for film and television. You can hear Mark's work in the Horror! collection. |
Torror is an amazing electronic musician who currently resides in Moscow. His collection is called Electro Loops and is perfect for DJs and producers who need to separate the layers of their tracks. |
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