August 16, 2003
Ringtone musicians - a success story
New technology allows for creative job opportunities and striving/starving musicians should consider this success story written up in The Express and Star. It sure beats waiting on tables until you get your lucky break.
Two partners, Iain Kerr and Jason Shaw founded a home-based venture whcih they called Melodi Ltd, creating ringtones for the UK and Australian market and since their launch in April 2002, their company has gone from strength to strength.
Both men are musicians and trained in London with mobile phone providers. As the demand grew, the company moved into offices in Lichfield, and Iain Kerr left his full-time job in local radio. Now the company has four full-time musicians.
Related stories posted previously in Ringtonia.com:
Soundonweb is another successful company, providing ringtones to the SonyEricsson assembly line. Twenty five professional musicians work on this alone. cf Behind the ringtone scene.
And Martin Plante who is Canadian, is the most famous ringtone composer, writing original ringtones for Cell Phones about.com and is touted as "the world's first ringtone artist to compose music exclusively for cell phones". cf Original Ringtones By Martin Plante.
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