For Record Labels and Studios
Our Business is Superb New Recordings
If you own the recording or distribution rights to solo piano recordings
of any type, you are our customer.
We provide two levels of service. We take a piano recording and use
our technology to generate a note-perfect, high-resolution MIDI file.
That file
is the input to a corresponding robotic or virtual instrument, such as
Yamaha’s Disklavier Pro
grand piano. Your team can use this file as the basis
for a new recording at your venue, with your recording engineers and
equipment, guided by Zenph’s experienced team. Or, we can create
a high-definition surround-sound master, produced in our own world-class
studio.
Our services are not a re-mastering of your recording. Our process
captures all of its original performance details, including keystrokes,
pedal movements, and the emotional characteristics that are the essence
of the artistic expression. Off-the-cuff live recordings or aging mono
recordings can become surround sound: re-performed and re-recorded
using today’s best instruments, microphones, and recording techniques.
Were your old recordings to become new again, they could add significant
revenue streams to your business.
We manage our service schedules and quality levels to provide you
with the high-quality results, on time. The computer and musical skills
that we apply to the process are unequaled. We contract with you to
create the note-perfect, re-performance files or to take the process
through re-recordings in our studios. We share in the royalties, with
an upfront fee to cover the production costs. Contact
us to arrange
a detailed discussion of Zenph Studios’ services.
The Diversity of Copyright Laws
The USA has strong copyright laws; sound recordings essentially don't
go into the public domain until well into the 21st century.
But, in the European
Union (EU), for example, recordings go into the public domain 50 years after their
first release. Small recording companies in the EU already re-issue
CDs of historical mono recordings in volume. That's been a small concern
to the labels, but in 2006 the situation gets troubling. 1956 was the
start of early stereo, which is how we still listen nowadays. Starting
in 2006, the "good stuff" from 1956 forward starts going
into the public domain. Year by year, labels will lose European rights
to
the
most prized, profitable recordings
in their archives. With global
retailing, CDs made in the EU are readily available anywhere.
The way around this is to create new, highly-desirable music recordings,
which establish a new copyright. A modern re-recording can be a premium
product, protected with the latest Digital Rights Management (DRM).
For a modern re-recording to be acceptable to discerning jazz, classical,
and pop listeners, it must be faithful, note-perfect, and identical
to the original performance. That’s our business.
Original Performance, New Recording!
