an eBook about Arabella

This is a copy of a blog about a new Apple App I have written on the blog of my company KSK Producitons.

Once in a while you become part of something great, something new. Something that, if you look close enough, you can not understand why it was not created before!

This happened to us some months ago.
We where commissioned  by Practical Music to create a song for a new App for the iPhone, iPod touch and the iPad. It is called an eBook. An electronic book for children with the title:  "Princess Arabella wants to play". The story is about a little princess called Arabella who is bored and looks for ways to play in and around the palace.
Because this is a eBook, you can read the story on the screen, but also listen to the story. We got some pictures and some voice-over samples to get a feeling of the book. This always helps when creating a song. After same days we came up with a nice melody and send a demo version to Practical music. They where enthusiastic about it, and some days later we delivered the final version for them to work with.

So why do I particularity write about this?
Did you see the eBook? NO... well you should. It is fantastic. You can read the story, you can listen to it, you can interact with the screen. By using your fingers of turning and tilting the screen all sorts of things happen. Pictures are changing, sound effects are audible.
This whole concept is brilliant. Kids will love this and will enjoy reading en listening to funny stories. There will be more stories coming up and we will participate in creating the music for it.

You want to see what the fuss is about?
Check the website of RumdeeDum, buy the eBook from the Apps iTunes Marketplace en amaze yourself and your kids.

New album " Spirit of the Ocean" available

Six months later than I anticipated for, but my new album "Spirit of the Ocean" is available for download.
This is a New Age album telling the story of the oceans.
The eight songs (called Movement 1 to 8) takes the listener through the oceans and there living habitat.

As whit al my music all these songs are created by putting sounds and emotions together and let that evolve into beautiful music.
The second song of the album, Movement 2 - Memories of ancient tales, will also be produced as a pop song (whit the help of my friend Tom Pearce of Practical Music) and maybe also as a dance song... My good friend Jan Knetsch will create the music video for this pop version I'll let you know if this happens

To promote the songs more want to create some photo-videos. I hope to work together with some Dutch photographers to make this happen. Again if this happens, you will read it here.

You can listen to the sons at iLike.
You can buy the downloads at CDBaby.

Greetings,
Patrick Schouten

Changing to a Whuffie world

I just finished reading the Dutch version of the book 'The Whuffie Factor' by Tara Hunt.

Although this Whuffie factor is not new (before the Internet era we called it human interest and service) it is good to see that in a world where most of our lives is all about money and most companies have managed to remove customer service completely, that in the on-line world more and more people and companies are putting effort in human interest and are willing to help others, even if they are not directly gaining anything.

With help of the tips from the book I hope to transform our little company to a more Whuffie creating environment, where we can help others in creating there goals with the know-how we have.

To make this happen we have to change the way we put our products in the world, we may have to change our products, who knows.
But gladly I stumbled on the book 'Business Model Generation' by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur. I'm sure after reading this book, we are ready for a change.

Greetings,
Patrick