Touch Music | Rights Usage
Over the years there has been various usages of Touch Music works; from ballet to film, theatre to dance, the range of titles available seem to suit many different media. Lynn Ramsay, Gaspar Noé, The Royal Ballet (London), Terrence Malik, Morgan Matthews, Rambert Dance Company, Gustav Deutsch, Shobana Jeyasingh Company, Justin Smith, EMI, Oxford Film and Television, JVC (Japan), Lakeshore Entertainment (USA), Tonic Music, BBC (UK & America), ITV, C4, Carte Blanche (Norway's national comtemporary dance company), Theater Vorpommern (Germany), The Dutch National Ballet, The Krasnoyarsk State Opera and Ballet Theatre (Russia), Atlantik Film (Turkey) and many others have all enjoyed Touch Music usage.
Rights can be cleared either directly (contact details can be found lower down on the right hand side of this page) or through the blanket agreement with MCPS.
Fennesz music usage on film trailer
Surf, from Fennesz's album Field Recordings 1995-2002 [Touch # Tone 16, 2002], has been used on a trailer for the movie The Grey (dir. Joe Carnahan, 2012).
Here is the teaser trailer on youtube
Leslie Winer on Grace Jones Dub Album | September 2011
Grace Jones - Hurricane/Dub
This album features the track "This Is" [GRACE JONES/IVOR GUEST/LESLIE WINER/ANTONY GENN]. Touch Music represents the publishing for Leslie Winer's composition share. The album is due out on Wall of Sound in September 2011.
Viktor Oszkar Nagy - "Caught Between Two Worlds"
Viktor Oszkar Nagy has used extensive music by Hildur Gudnadottir in his new documentary film, Caught Between Two Worlds, which was produced in Hungary by Campfilm.
Terence Malik - "The Tree of Life"
Terence Malik's new movie has caused a sensation at Cannes. You can read an in-depth review here (spoiler alert***)
The film contains music by Biosphere, specifically the track 'Hyperborea' from Substrata 2.
Lynne Ramsay - "We Need To Talk About Kevin"
An extract of 'Aquaculture' from Energy Field by Jana Winderen has been used on the latest film directed by Lynne Ramsay. We Need to Talk About Kevin is a 2011 British film directed and adapted by Lynne Ramsay from American author Lionel Shriver's 2003 novel of the same name.
The film premiered at Cannes and you can read about it here in a review in The Guardian and in an interview with Tilda Swinton.
From The Observer 15th May 2011:
"Seamus McGarvey's camerawork is scintillating, and Lynne Ramsay's music choices, including Lonnie Donegan and Buddy Holly all linked by another impressive score by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood, are impeccable."
Gaspar Noe - "Enter the Void"
This film has received a 5 star review in The Guardian.
Music by BJNilsen & Stillupsteypa features on the soundtrack…
www.enter-the-void.co.uk
www.imdb.com
Casus Belli | Novi_sad
The short film CASUS BELLI (dir. Yorgos Zois) will have its world premiere in the Orrizzonti Competition of the 67th Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica (Venice International Film Festival), to be held in Venice from September 1st to 11th 2010.
The sound design of the film is by Novi_sad.
www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/index.html
New Signing to Touch Music
We are delighted to welcome Tehran-born composer, Sohrab, to Touch Music. You can hear his Live in Tehran on TouchRadio here.
Biosphere film soundtrack @ Berlin Film Festival | February 2010
Im Schatten (In the Shadows) by Thomas Arslan, Germany (WP) appears as part of A world in pieces: the films of the 40th Berlinale Forum, with music by Geir Jenssen (published by Touch Music).