Sonoton

Sonoton is a music publisher based in Munich and claims to be one of the world's largest independent provider of production music and sound effects.

Its program titles are out of over 70 international labels that are used in the entertainment and advertising industries for scoring films, radio dramas or trailers. Founded in 1965 by Sonoton film music and pop composer Gerhard Narholz and Rotheide Narholz. The company is still family owned.

History

1965 Sonoton of Rotheide and Gerhard Narholz was founded in Munich. While Rotheide Narholz built up the infrastructure of the new company, develops Gerhard Narholz the Library Business originally for Germany and Austria. The first TV - specific music offer was expanded over the years on a wide range of all possible genres and forms of exploitation.

In the 1970s, the number of missions abroad rose to 30. In many countries where production music was unknown, Sonoton made ​​about his local agent pioneering work. SONOTON produced for the label INTER SOUND Easy Listening Music with international artists such as Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Ted Heath, Mr. Acker Bilk, Xavier Cugat, Horst Jankowski Franck Pourcel or. Another milestone in the company's history was the establishment of ethnic labels SAS ( SONOTON AUTHENTIC SERIES ), which authentically produced in the following years and published rehearsed music from more than 100 countries and cultures of the world.

1984 took Sonoton as the first music library the transition into the digital age and published production music on CDs: the first music library developed Sonoton 1992 its own music search program to disk. In 1998, the entire repertoire with search program on the Internet was made available. 2006 presented Sonoton HD Music Station, a hard disk with 500 GB, on the 180,000 music recordings plus search program to offline - " plug & play" - use are given.

2007 Sonoton opened the first German-language sounds portal www.sonosoundfx.de with search program download individual sounds in wav quality.

Since 2010 allows Sonoton first German-language music library mobile access to over 250,000 tracks of a music search app for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and Android smartphones.

Today is Sonoton ( claims to be ) the largest independent production music library with 47 agents worldwide. In Germany, the company represents over 70 international labels. In addition to managing Rotheide and Gerhard Narholz Peter Lang provide as Director of Marketing & New Media and Erika Oltmanns as Sales Director Germany, the management team of Sonoton Germany. The company is still family owned.