Sacred Noise News

Michael Montes made a simple piano piece for this beautifully complex picture.

Kudos to Tor Myhren and his amazing team at Grey NY!

For this year’s “Ad-Prom” Michael Montes made a mysterious thriller-meets-action movie score for this gorgeous visual by hot shop Thornberg & Forester.

Did somebody say green?

Thornberg & Forester called Michael Montes to help brand the launch of The Discovery Channel’s new 24-hour eco-lifestyle television network Planet Green.

Michael Montes was invited by graphic design studio Trollbäck & Company to help brand the inaugural World Science Festival, held at 22 venues throughout New York City. The Festival was a huge success attended by over 120,000 people. This amazing event was created “to cultivate and sustain a general public informed by the content of science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future.”

Here’s the playful new opening title sequence for Good Experience Live, a conference and community exploring good experience in all its forms — in business, technology, art, society, and life.

Visuals by Grow Design Work. Music by Michael Montes.

Inspired by the TED Prize wish of filmmaker Jehane Noujaim. Pangea Day is a global event bringing the world together through film.

Starting at 2:00 EDT on May 10, 2008, locations in Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro will be linked for a live program of powerful films, live music, and visionary speakers. The entire program will be broadcast – in seven languages – to millions of people worldwide through the internet, television, and mobile phones. In the US, the full four-hour program is being carried live on Current TV.

The 24 short films to be featured have been selected from an international competition that generated more than 2,500 submissions from over one hundred countries. The films were chosen based on their ability to inspire, transform, and allow us see the world through another person’s eyes.

The trailer with music by Michael Montes is now playing worldwide in all media formats:

More info about this exciting event here: pangeaday.org

In addition to creating music for the TED Conference itself, Michael Montes has also composed music for the ubiquitous online TEDtalks.

Here’s a great one: When a Brain Scientist Suffers a Stroke

One morning, a blood vessel in Jill Bolte Taylor’s brain exploded. As a brain scientist, she realized she had a ringside seat to her own stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory, self-awareness . Dr. Taylor recounts the details of her stroke and the amazing insights she gained from it in a riveting 18-minute video of her speech at this year’s TED Conference in Monterey, CA. Her fascinating lecture includes a detailed explanation of the differences between the left and right sides of the brain, complete with an incredibly cool prop — a real human brain.

In partnership with the design and animation house, CA-Square, Sacred Noise was approached to refresh the SíTV image through a complete musical overhaul. Branding this new channel, which targets the young English-speaking Latinos in the US, required a deep understanding of the cultural mix of Latino and American influences that define this audience. EP Jason Menkes began the process with a complete audit of the unique and varied identities and preferences of Latinos throughout the US, highlighting their different musical tastes from state to state, as well as the cultural touchstones that unite them. Sacred Noise composers used this research to create inspired musical fusions of Latino and American pop culture, mixing rock, hip-hop, and electronic music with cumbia, samba, and tango rhythms and instruments. The result is a modern musical expression of American-Latino cool that brands the network with a distinct celebration of diverse culture.

Jason Menkes produced an arrangement of country hit “Who I Am” with Jearlyn Steele, of Prairie Home Companion fame, for WNET’s Teaching and Learning Conference. This special edit highlights Jason’s acting “talents” as they ham-and-cheese it up for the cameras (you’ve been warned).

For an energy company that praises the integrity of its employees instead of its corporate power and global reach, the typical corporate anthem wouldn’t work. Michael Montes produced this beautifully reflective post-electronica score for Cole & Weber in Seattle.