What We Do
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Partners In Rhyme went online in 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.
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 as many free resources, help and advice as possible 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.
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| Who We Are |
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Mark Lewis (CEO/Composer)
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Mona-Lia Ventress (CFO/Composer) |
Mark Lewis is part owner and CEO for Partners In Rhyme. He is also one of the PIR composers and main sound designer for the sound effects library You can hear his music on these collections: Metro Mix, Multi Media Music Vol 1 and Vol 2 with a new guitar themed collection due out later this year.
please contact Mark directly.
• if you are a composer looking to place your work
• if you have a new business venture you'd like to discuss
• if you are a media representative looking for information
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Mona-Lia Ventress is part owner of Partners In Rhyme. She is an Emmy nominated composer. She also takes care of accounting and oversees shipping for Partners In Rhyme.
Mona-Lia is also a travel writer and is putting the finishing touches on her forthcoming book entitled Horizontal Rain, the story of her experiences living in New Zealand.
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. |
| Juan Sanchez (Composer) |
Robin Nathan (Composer) |
Juan Sanchez works and lives in Barcelona, Spain. Mark and Mona-Lia had the great pleasure to meet with Juan in person during Christmas 2004 in Barcelona where they were visiting. After having worked with Juan for a over a year on the internet it was really great to sit down and have a meal and chat with him. We of course ended up having a lot in common.
Juan is the composer of the Spin Doctor collection. He has also started his own sample and music loop company called Equinox Sounds.
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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) |
George Oliver (Videographer) |
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.
You can learn more about Gayle and Djam Karet on their website at www.djamkaret.com.
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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) |
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.
You can get more information about Jonathan on his website at www.jonathangeer.com. |
| Dan Dugan (Sound Designer) |
Jeff Curry (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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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. You can fond out more information about Jeff's latest releases and tour dates from his website www.jeffcurry.com. |
| Jacky Schreiber (Composer) |
Dan Levitan (Composer) |
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. |
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. |
| Dr Keith J Salmon (Conducter/Producer) |
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Venkata Rama Prasad (Webmaster/Programmer) |
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Dr Keith J Salmon is our newest member of Partners In Rhyme. He resides in the UK and brings to PIR a huge collection of royalty free classical music that he has conducted and recorded over the years. You can hear Dr Salmon's work on our new collection called The Classical Music Library. If you want to download individual MP3 versions of the classical music trakc please visit Keith's website at www.royalty-free-classical-music.org.
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Venkat is our webmaster. The Partners In Rhyme site had gotten to
the point where we needed someone to take on the daily upkeep and programming
that is involved with a growing site like ours.
Venkat resides in Hyderabad, India but is in daily contact with our team in New Zealand. |
