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!
