Music News from Leading Sonic Branding Agency

Stephen Arnold Music (SAM) Creates New Orleans Style Sonic Branding for Gray Media’s Pelicans Broadcasts

DALLAS—October 29, 2025— Stephen Arnold Music (SAM) has created sonic branding and custom music for Gray Media’s slate of New Orleans Pelicans NBA basketball broadcasts. The music package builds upon SAM’s previous collaboration with Gray Media for its sports programming, including Atlanta Braves Major League Baseball coverage, extending Gray Media’s cohesive sports identity while capturing the unmistakable spirit and sound of New Orleans. The three-minute theme was recorded live in […]

International Sonic Branding: Custom Music for Global Brands

For over three decades, we’ve had the pleasure of crafting unforgettable sonic identities and custom music for many of the world’s top international brands, and we’re continuing to amp things up! From distinctive sonic identities for major news and television networks, to sonic logos for worldwide corporations and entertainment groups, to brand themes for global festivals, our creative team strives to emotionally connect audiences with brands across every platform. Take […]

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What’s new from The World Leader in Sonic Branding – Summer 2025

Our team at SAM has been busy with a wide range of exciting projects this year, creating custom music and sound for sports, news, and immersive experiences, plus offering fresh tracks from The Vault, our production music library. Here’s a rundown of what we’ve been up to lately. MLB All-Star Game – Image Engineering Image Engineering was asked to create an immersive, projection-mapped, pyrotechnic-filled tribute to Hank Aaron for the […]

SAM Adds Emotional Depth to MLB’s All-Star Game Tribute to Hank Aaron

At the 2025 All-Star Game in Atlanta, Major League Baseball commemorated the 51st anniversary of Hank Aaron’s historic, record-breaking 715th home run with an unforgettable tribute created through a ground-breaking blend of projection mapping, pyrotechnics and immersive music and sound. Immersive entertainment pioneer Image Engineering produced, while sonic branding leader Stephen Arnold Music (SAM) created the soundtrack for the emotionally charged spectacle broadcast live on Fox Sports and experienced in […]

The One Thing AI Music Can’t Do

AI is helping us reconnect with music, though not in the way you might think. It’s not the speed or pristine songwriting, composition, and production that’s redefining our relationship with it. It’s what AI can’t offer that’s reminding listeners of what they truly love about music – and perhaps what will ultimately keep the technology from replacing musicians altogether. AI & Artistry For the past few years, SAM has been […]

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Shhh: How Noise Pollution Affects Sonic Brand

From city traffic to airplanes to handheld devices, the world today makes a lot of noise, and it’s not all good. In urban environments, people often experience extended periods of excessive noise levels – above 90 dB – which can lead to serious health risks. Noise reduction efforts are underway in many of the world’s most populated cities, and as a sound creation agency, we at SAM felt it important […]

The Sound of Nostalgia

What sounds take you back? Is it the whimsical music of an ice cream truck, a commercial jingle from Saturday morning cartoons, the ‘one-up’ chime from a video game, or maybe a hit song from a summer road trip? Our senses are really good at triggering past experiences, and sound is one of the most powerful. Examining how we process the audible world can shed light on why sound is […]

Sonic Branding Ranked #1 for Brand Awareness

Wow, this is really powerful! A recent post by our sonic research partners over at SoundOut has revealed that sonic branding is the most effective brand asset when it comes to maximizing brand awareness. The article references research completed by System1 and TikTok [Source: The Long & Short (Form) of It] which analyzed nearly 900 short-form ads and 92,000 consumers. Among the findings, sonic assets (e.g. sonic logos, brand mnemonics, […]

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Most Annoying Sounds In the World

What are the sounds that drive you nuts – the ones you hear and immediately think, “nope”? This is one of those topics that for those sensitive to sound (like us) presents a real challenge to research and write about. However, with grit and determination, we’ve forged through the shrieks, shrills, and scrapes to uncover not only the most annoying sounds in the world, but why they affect us so, and […]

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