The idea for CuePop™ came from our current CEO, the founder and programmer of the site, Evan Evans.
"At some point towards the beginning of 2000, a director that I had done a few films with called me and asked if I had anything in my library that could work well for a ski video that his brother was working on. He said there would be no money in the deal, but that I could collect any performance royalties. Contemplating our long and fruitful business relationship, I decided to send his brother some CDs.
Later that year I was mastering some archival reel-to-reels of my father, Bill Evans, in Santa Monica. In the parking lot of the facility I met with someone walking who offered me the opportunity to sell some of my music to his library music company. I was not and still am not enthusiastic about giving someone authorship of my compositions. I declined.
But, the two circumstances clicked in my mind, and I soon developed the business mechanics, legalities, and web infrastructure for a free online production music library that non-exclusively controls it's collection. Filmmakers are happy. Composers are happy."
About the logo:
The logo is an abstract representation, a graphical slice, of a 70mm film strip with a hole punch in the center of the frame. In the golden age of film scoring and cinema a hole punch was put into the center of a frame of film and a bit of the optical track to create an audible and visible "pop" so as to cue the conductor to start the downbeat of the orchestra. Often several such "pop"s were created in rhythmic succession to signify 8 total beats of countoff in tempo before the cueing of the orchestra. Later, Alfred Newman, an avid supporter of visual cueing, developed a method of scratching a line on the film strip across several feet, diagonally. This gave the impression that a line was moving from left to right on the silver screen just before the "Pop" start point would occur. Originally this important point was loosely called a "Cue Pop", or so it can be derived.
We offer a very unique service here at CuePop™.com, other than giving you the opportunity to use music for absolutely no charge. We do not simply produce and supply "factory" library music. Instead we provide you, the consumer, with access to a database that many Top Composers are continuously contributing high quality professional music to.
Other "Library Music" services use staff composers to write "themed" music, often using synthesizers, or at best, rudimentary orchestration or arrangements, the end result of which are mostly "knock-offs" of other popular music. Although we have composers contributing high quality "themed" music to our library, we are also collecting the highest quality music that working professional composers are able to let out of their own private libraries. This music is typically far more professional due to the fact that the contributing composers are already well established in their industries and making a living on their merits, rather than feeding a library music machine while punching time cards.
Also, we use a rating system so you'll know from your peers what the general consensus of a piece of music is. And we also keep track of how many times a piece of music is used, so that you can better decide if you would rather prefer something that's fresh and untouched, or something that's obviously making the rounds for good reasons.
