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Tour highlights MusicBox indie artists Sound Libraries L DJinn is just one of the indie bands on tour. OS ANGELES — MusicBox Publishing, a unit of original music production and music licensing company Mu- sicBox (www.musicboxmx.com), is teaming up with indie music label Planet LA Records, to sponsor a tour featuring a number of their recording artists. The tour will take place between March 5 and March 20, and will include performances at the SXSW Festival in Austin,TX. Planet LA Records bands DJinn, Evolove, Native June and When Planets Align will perform in Hollywood, Las Vegas, Phoenix and Austin.The tour has been designed to raise awareness for the “Not for Sale” campaign to com- bat human trafficking (www.abolitiontour.com). The tour follows the recent release of a music compi- lation CD from MusicBox Publishing and Planet LA Records, featuring artists from around the globe.The re- lease is part of MusicBox’s expansion of its indie and emerging artists catalog. MusicBox offers music of all genres and represent 14 catalogs.The company has staff composers,music editors and a recording studio. MusicBox also offers MusicBox- Mobile, a free iPhone app for music search and delivery. OBT Music improves search engine B OSTON — OBT Music (www.obtmusic.com), here, has made a signif- icant upgrade to it online search engine, which can now remember what a user’s last search criteria was, eliminating the need to create en- tirely new searches. According to OBT Music’s Tom Phillips, the upgrade is a response to user feedback and the desire to return to the criteria/filter page from the last search with everything still intact. Rather than having to entirely fill out a new search, users can simply change single search fields, such as theme, instru- ment or tempo. “Most search engines reset all the filters and you need to start again to con- tinue, notes Phillips.“As an example of the value of this, if you selected ‘melancholy’ as an adjective and found the pieces to be too melan- choly, you just need to hit one button, and then select a different adjective to get an entirely new listing of music cues. It’s a one-step process which not only saves a considerable amount of time but also keeps the thought process focused on exactly what it is that you’re looking for.” Searches have now been made simpler. OBT Music recently finished scoring a signature theme for the newly- refurbished Charles Hayden Planetarium in Boston’s Museum of Science. The theme for the pre-show is five-and-a-half minutes long and moves around the Planetarium, eventually exiting through its virtual dome and off into space. Phillips and partner Tom Martin composed and produced the score to a QuickTime animatic representation of the visuals. “We delivered the final mixes in Pro Tools 9 with Toolkit 2 using 46 tracks of mix stems at unity gain to enable the Planetarium the ability to place various musical elements anywhere in the 360 degree spectrum,” Phillips explains. 36 Post • March 2011 www.postmagazine.com