Rick Reifenstein

Today was cue upload day. New cues were uploaded to Jingle Punks and processed. I then created a sampler to upload to soundcloud.com  https://soundcloud.com/rmreifenstein/april-2018-production-music-sampler Give it a listen and if you interested in any of those cues then get over to www.jinglepunks.com and look those cues up in the Jingle Player. I took a look at Band Labs version of Cakewalk today. I think the best thing is they included the TH3 guitar amp and FX simulator. It sounds great! The downside is it suffers from the same problems that the former Cakewalk did. After about 6 hrs it starts to hang. You could be in the middle of a session and it locks up. Waiting doesn't help. You eventually have to kill the process in task manager. Too bad.

Planning on making changes to my websites. This being one of them. I want to add music cues and videos. I'm doing a lot more on Instagram as well so look me up there as well. If you just search Rick Reifenstein you'll find me. Not too many folks with that name. Music news. Landed a nice placement in HBO's Vice News Tonight. I also started a new composing schedule in the studio which will increase the music output. Basically in February I decided to focus just on my Production Music composing. I can get easily distracted by offers to compose music for special projects. While that's cool and I will still evaluate projects case by case, I'm not going to be actively searching for them. I'm really concentrating on increasing my output. I'm really trying to saturate the Jingle Punks library with my cues. Right now Jingle Punks is the best way to license my stuff for projects. It makes the process clean and easy for all parties. Gotta run. More later. Links to n

Whew! Time is flying by lately. Well Summer is here and we are busy! We've already done a few camping trips and taken the kayaks on a trip. Already did a little hiking too. I've been doing Augmented Reality experiments at the University lately. Mainly centered around using augmented reality in social media campaigns. I've been spending a lot of time in the studio lately. I have a lot of new cues out and ready. I've decided to go a different route with these cues. I thought I would go the non-exclusive and royalty free route. For a limited time you can license these cues from me through Music Dealers. There's a player down below. Click through and give a listen. If you interested in licensing a song, then click on the Music Dealers logo on the right of the player. The royalty free site isn't ready yet but probably in about 7 to 10 days I'll be able to get that information to you. Stay tuned for more....

Christmas has come and gone at Roundstone Cottage. The kids got what they wanted as well as some things they didn't expect but enjoy. I performed Pachebels Canon in D and Silent Night Christmas Eve. I always wanted to play the Canon in D, but never had a reason to learn it. I was asked this year to play with a choir who was going to sing an arrangement of Away in the Manger over top of my playing the Canon. I don't play live much anymore since concentrating on production music; so I was a little nervous. The performance went off without issue and the evening was very enjoyable. In other music news: I have music in Action Bronson Watches Ancient Aliens. If you've never seen this show, it's....different. It's on the VICE Channel so you'd have to expect different. The Episode is "Aliens and the Creation of Man". I have new cues to put into my Jingle Punks catalog this week. At least one big orchestral action piece. There are a few new electronic piec

One of the coolest things about writing music for TV & Film is not only seeing what shows my music is in, but in what countries the shows end up airing in. Sometimes when I stop and think about it; it's really exciting to think about my music being heard in all the different countries. November marked the first time my music was heard in Hong Kong and Malaysia as part of "Going Deep With David Rees". Hello Malaysia & Hong Kong!! In November I saw continued airing of shows in the United Kingdom, Canada and Brazil. Pretty cool. Some of you may know that I also work as a technologist. As a technologist I often research new technologies and am tasked with figuring out how that technology might be used in the real world. Lately I have been thinking about augmented reality and how it could be used in music composition. What I am excited about is the potential for VST's (virtual instruments) to become augmented reality objects in a Hololens or something similar. I

I've been thinking about my brand lately. A colleague of mine who works in marketing is always talking about how important it is to know your "brand". If you don't have a good understanding of your brand then it's very difficult to create a way to market yourself. So what is my brand? During my 20 plus years as a musician and composer I've written and played all kinds of different genres. Rock, Space Rock, Industrial Electronic, Ambient Electronic, Rockabilly, and Orchestral for all kinds of situations. Bands and stage productions; small independent films, and major TV shows. During all that time I never gave a thought to branding. I just wrote what ever style I thought was necessary. However since 2010, I've been fortunate to be represented by one of the best production music companies around, Jingle Punks. Since then I've been able get some great placements. Now I have data to look on and determine which styles have been getting the most work. S