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Music video cut of Joe Glasman’s: ‘Can We Go There Again?’ released Meet Lily, a powerful, self-possessed woman who finds herself now a mess of exultation, remorse and melancholy. Who is she? What has she done?...

17 October 2019

Humtracks announces release of music video cut of Joe Glasman’s: ‘Can We Go There Again?’

Humtracks is proud to announce the video release for: ‘Let You Go (A Farewell)’. A beautiful and eerie song by Eva Katharina, the video – directed by Jack Kinross – poignantly explores a dreamscape of loss after love, and superbly...

4 October 2019

Humtracks releases video of Eva Katharina’s ‘Let You Go (A Farewell)’

Nominated! We’re delighted to announce that Natasha Tyrimos’s ‘Wishing Well’, released on Hum Tracks earlier this year, is a nominated soundtrack finalist at this year’s Mark Awards in L.A. and now the Production Music Awards in London....

19 September 2019

Hum Tracks soundtrack nominated for 2019 Mark Awards & Production Music Awards

Hum Tracks is delighted to announce that from January 1st 2019, Hum Tracks will be represented globally by BMG Production music. Joe Glasman, MD of Hum Tracks said: “I visited the BMG teams not just in London, but in Berlin, Paris and...

17 December 2018

Hum Tracks signs global deal with BMG Production Music

A run through Hum Tracks’ catalogue of Quirky, Unexpected and Wondrous music, with a behind-the-scenes look at how versatile and practical our catalogue also is: particularly perfect for our publishers, as well as writers hoping to...

10 June 2018

Hum Tracks June 2018 showreel: not just about the music, but who we are and how our catalogue works

The Soundtrack to your inner craziness …… an album of bizarre vibes for when you go nuts “All aboard a mad train loaded up with energy & flavour – mashing up funk, gypsy & techno as it crashes & careers down the track.” “Don’t do...

8 May 2018

Out on Hum Tracks! ‘Bawling Metropolis’ by The High Bawlers

Dark Science by Kamil Braszka Other worldly compositions in noise …. Sound-designed soundscapes that speak of sinister technologies, the dark web, artificial intelligence and the nameless outer reaches of space. Kamil Braszka has...

12 April 2018

Hum Tracks releases: ‘Dark Science’ by Kamil Braszka

‘Memoirs Of A Projectionist’ – Eerie 70’s inspired pop bringing together the cosmic funk, cinematic psychedelia, and smooth airy harmonies – with a dark introspective lyrical twist....

6 October 2017

Humtracks releases ‘Memoirs Of A Projectionist’ by Paul Housden

A fabulous selection of Humtracks’ new work for this Spring We’re delighted to announce our recent releases. Some of these were already set free at the start of the year, others are coming soon, but they’re all hitting our target to...

12 April 2017

New out and coming soon on Humtracks – Spring 2017

The Pink Diamond Revue’s “We Don’t Play Rock’n’Roll” Our recent release of this electro sonic beat punk extravaganza, features Tim Lane, Robert Courtman-Stock and the mesmerising Acid Dol. “Electro-dance, mutant Rock’n’Roll:...

12 April 2017

Humtracks releases “We Don’t Play Rock’n’Roll” by The Pink Diamond Revue

Works strangely well for picture …. We’re thrilled with this short animated video that sums up what our Humtracks label is all about: quirky, unexpected and wondrous music – by artists – that works strangely well to picture. We don’t...

10 April 2017

All about Humtracks – in just 15 seconds!

Roll Tape: The Soundtrack To A Haunting From the mysterious and fertile hills and valleys of the Isle of Wight, comes an enigmatic new band: Roll Tape, with their debut album. Roll Tape came to our attention last year and we were...

19 March 2017

Roll Tape: Soundtrack to a Haunting

Hum launches mentoring service for music graduates Making the transition from music graduate to pro: how do you convert your musical ability into a career? Hum’s MD Joe Glasman has launched a one-to-one mentoring service for those...

4 March 2017

Hum launches mentoring service

‘Classroom’ score by Joe Glasman at Hum wins finalist award at New York Festivals Over the last year, millions have heard our arrangement of ‘Sweet Child O’Mine’ for this spot, and we’re thrilled to have now won a Finalist Award at...

30 March 2015

Hum wins music award at New York Festivals

The Hum Tracks production music library: • is based on our ‘short story’ expertise in commercials: making genuine beginning, middle and end pieces that really work at 30″ or a minute, as well as full-length versions. • is high...

3 February 2015

Hum Tracks: A boutique music library … tailor made for commercials

RTÉ2 – how to do music to picture … better? If you’re watching TV in Ireland, you might see this … This, on the other hand, is RTÉ2. We’re really proud of the end result, but what’s particularly great about this job was the process...

10 November 2014

RTÉ2 – how to do music to picture … better?

What do Wimbledon and the World Cup have in common? Well aside from balls, the answer is Hum Audio Branding, and the link here is BBC Sport I know, even the most sports phobic of you are thinking ’I’ve seen some BBC Sport, and I...

3 July 2014

A Cymbal, a Whoosh and a Bang

Music for DOE Road Safety “Classroom” – score by Joe Glasman at Hum Our rendering of ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’ seems to have hit the spot for this film, as millions around the world tune in to see, hear and join in the road safety debate....

25 June 2014

Music score for DOE Road Safety “Classroom” – spotlight on Joe Glasman at Hum, London as YouTube views hit millions

Bald composer goes to the hairstyling ball (with Shilpa) Here at Hum it’s not just about Camden Town’s frankly grubby streets and bald composers, we occasionally do get a glimpse of stardust. The brief here was luxuriant glamour...

16 May 2014

Bald composer goes to the hairstyling ball (with Shilpa)

‘Cube Earth’ China & an award Hi, here at Hum we’re delighted to kick off the year with news of another award – this time it’s a Silver for Best On-Air Channel Branding at Promax BDA Asia. The branding is for Chinese channel CCTV-9...

15 January 2014

‘Cube Earth’ China & an award

UBS: Bringing a Brand to Screen Joe Glasman, Hum: This is the story of how to take a simple sequence of notes and magnify its range and reach. It’s also about the expanding role for audio in helping an organisation communicate in a way...

2 November 2013

UBS: Bringing a Brand to Screen

The Power of 7: How to brand a TV channel with music Video transcript Here’s all about how we created the audio channel branding for La 7, one of Italy’s most popular TV channels La Sette wanted a vibrant, modern rebrand. They wanted...

8 October 2013

The Power of 7: How to brand a TV channel with music

Aubaine: Ooh La La. Audio Branding – the playlist Joe Glasman, Hum: Hi, this is Joe Glasman at Hum. Hum is a multi-award winning music production company with clients such as the BBC, Sky, British Telecom, Red Bee, Exxon and many more....

8 October 2013

Aubaine: Ooh La La. Audio Branding – the playlist

CCTV-9: Peter and the Wolf go to China Video transcript So here’s a tale of some wee beasties, and some ground-breaking work for China’s CCTV-9 Channel that’s won us some awards. Particularly, it’s a neat story about how a musical...

17 September 2013

CCTV-9: Peter and the Wolf go to China

Sound signature for global ‘We’re Drivers Too’ campaign Brief: To create a clearly recognizable sequence of notes to be Exxon’s worldwide ‘sound signature’, which would also be adaptable for a variety of commercials and promotional...

11 May 2013

Exxon: Sound signature for global ‘We’re Drivers Too’ campaign

Lebara ‘The Call of Africa’ Video transcript Why do people think that audio branding for commercials can only be about some kind of ‘Intel’ moment tagged at the end? Well, in collaboration with the very smart Richard Hayter at CST The...

13 February 2012

Lebara ‘The Call of Africa’

La7 Christmas Video transcript Here at Hum we couldn’t think of a better Christmas card to send than these fabulous seasonal idents for Italian channel La7. Created by Jane Fielder and her brilliant team at Red Bee Media, beautifully...

20 December 2011

La7 Christmas

Hi, this is Joe Glasman at Hum. As many of you will already know Hum’s now added a synch catalogue – Humtracks – featuring thousands of high production value exclusive tracks – and we’re now delighted to announce our first batch of...

4 November 2011

Hum Tracks: New Artist Releases

Hi, this is Joe Glasman at Hum, just spreading the news about a couple more branding commissions we’ve recently completed And the theme is: Old School: reinvented, or: Black, is the new black In so many of the jobs we’ve been a part...

13 October 2011

Old School Reinvented

Once upon a time, in a Galaxy far far away, composers were hired to write music to picture. Music and audio were part of post production, the after-thought, and music was written in the film language of story telling. But something...

18 August 2011

The Sound Of You | Chapter 1: Why Audio Branding?

sounding OFF – Joe Glasman considers the marginalisation of composers in the digital age Joe Glasman 'Sounding Off' Does it matter whether or not there are any professional composers? First, let’s define such a composer as one who...

11 June 2011

BASCA ‘The Works’ Magazine, May 2011

Introducing Hum Tracks Hi, this is Joe Glasman at Hum. In addition to our award-winning score to picture and audio branding work, we are delighted to announce the arrival of Hum Tracks....

11 May 2011

Hum launches Hum Tracks – an exclusive sync collection for commercials

We’ve just completed the audio branding for Cielo – a cool job which ended up as a kind of album project – please have a look. ‘A great mini-album of contemporary music, as big a pleasure to make with Joe as it is to listen to’ Matt...

23 April 2010

Cielo channel launch

Joe Glasman creates audio branding for the Eden channel “The new channel idents for Eden create an abstract, highly visual landscape, using bold graphic shapes, re-defining them within new and unexplored worlds, rich with colour and...

24 February 2009

Eden channel audio branding

Joe Glasman at Hum plays keepy-uppy with John Terry, Thierry Henry, plus Anelka, Adebayor, Cech, Essien … … on behalf of Samsung and the Elton John Aids foundation Samsung’s agency Cheil and the Elton John Aids Foundation contacted...

30 September 2008

Joe Glasman plays keepy-uppy

Hum creates Audio Branding for BBC’s HD Channel Hum is pleased to announce it has completed the audio branding for BBC HD’s on-screen identity. In keeping with BBC HD’s brand values of providing the highest technological...

14 August 2008

BBC HD Channel in 5.1

‘Mess’ Song composed by Joe Glasman In this highly unusual and moving spot, the camera moves through many visual interpretations of what it means to be riveted by the gaze of another, from a lover’s tender look to one of damning...

2 June 2008

Hum song for Road Safety spot

Joe Glasman composes music for Sky Movies Joe Glasman at Hum was the composer of choice when it came to re-packaging Sky Movies’ portfolio of 12 movie channels by genre. ‘Joe has created music that is powerful, emotional and truly...

25 February 2008

Audio branding for Sky Movies

‘BT Vision’ Audio Branding by Joe Glasman at Hum BT Vision is the new digital TV service from BT. It integrates phone, internet broadband and TV services, offering a vast range of content including films, music, sport and kids...

24 May 2007

BT Vision – multimedia audio branding

The unseen road ahead for this car’s journey from the snows of Scandinavia to Europe’s sunny south is mysteriously strewn with unanswered questions – will it save someone’s life? Chris and Peter at Euro RSCG Fuel gave me the freedom...

23 October 2006

Volvo S80 ‘Unseen Road’ on air

BBC launches World Cup with Hum BBC Sport chose Hum to produce the audio for their refreshed brand identity, a punchy graphic device designed to unify the branding on all their Sports programming, starting with the World Cup 2006...

25 June 2006

BBC World Cup

Double win for Hum/Joe Glasman at Design Week Awards! Dunning Eley Jones’ UKTV Style Gardens idents – directed by Jason Keeley with music by Joe Glasman at Hum – carried off two awards at the Design Week Awards ceremony last week. The...

26 March 2006

Design Week award win

Joe Glasman wins Royal Television Society award Jason Keeley’s direction for Dunning Eley Jones, music by Joe Glasman at Hum, computer animation at The Hive: this suite of extraordinary pieces for UKTV Style Gardens won the Best Trail...

25 November 2005

Joe Glasman wins RTS award

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