Paris France, the evening of the 28th of December 1895, a congregation is gathered and seated, the lights are dimmed and the first public performance of a moving picture, a film, a movie, commences. A clattering new contraption called a cinématographe. Why did the Lumiere Brothers, the godfathers of film, instictively know that music was required. That the audience gathered would feel, that without music, something would have been absent, even if this absenteism was at an exhibition of something they had never witnessed and therefore had no comparison, no prior experience of. Why do we need music to picture.

In this video Christian & Theo retread the past and look at the unusual ways in which guitarists and bassists and engineers created saturation from the jazz age to the modern day.

Blagsheets, academically researched, peer reviewed, human-made and free for all.

A string programming masterclass by an Ivor Novello and BAFTA nominated film & TV composer and someone who has made string samples, for quite literally everyone.

Download a free blagsheet (basically a cheatsheet) that accompanies our recent investigation into the history and inner workings of MIDI.

The quick answer is the largest collection of free samples on the internet today. But Pianobook is so so much more than that.

Have you seen our extras YouTube channel?

Here’s a pilot for a new series we’ll be rolling out. Longer-form in-depth dives into stuff we take for granted, stuff we think we know. A look back to first principals so we can apply better principals to our creative futures.

A relic from the golden age of British Broadcasting for you to download and enjoy.

You may be surprised by this. But the experts point to this as THE ONE. So download and enjoy.

Our definitive list of microphones that have defined recorded music over the last near-century.

An archive of our previous iteration of our resources hub.

This is what we’ve been waiting for! In a glance, on a single sheet, from a single source. A complete rundown of all the need-to-knows for all the commonly used instruments in a standard symphony orchestra.

The mysteries of musical modes explained with a free reference resource for you to keep with you at all times.

The mysteries of modular synthesis explained with a free reference resource for you to keep with you at all times. There is nothing to fear, it’s just voltage!

In this video Christian talks about how he went about making the theme for BBCs Top Gear 22 years ago!

In this video we try and explain a different way of looking at music notation.