Q Music Collective

Q Music Collective (also known as “Q”) is a music production company/music library, founded in Hollywood, CA in 2002. Q Music services television and film editors, music supervisors and media professionals. Music can be found by searching the Q Finder online search engine (available to those with a Q Finder account). Q has some 4,000 online tracks and another several thousand offline.

History

Originally called MusicDelux, the company was founded by Craig Harris and Campbell Collins. Harris is a composer and sound design who often collaborated with Soundelux while Collins is a musician and award-winning marketing director. Collins was V.P. Marketing at Hollywood based television company Associated Television International and was co-founder of San Diego recording/production company Soundtrax (with engineer/producer Jim Papageorge) and Magnum (a composesr rep firm) at the Village Recorder.

When Q Music was MusicDelux it was a nascent division of the Ascent Media Company, Soundelux. The company became Q Music Collective after the original arrangement with Soundelux dissolved. Soundelux made space at Todd-AO Vine Street Studios available where the newly independent company, now under sole management of Collins could finish its market roll out.

Q Music Search process

The company was an early adapter of Soundminer (asset management software) embedding its audio files with extensive metadata so 'cues' could be searched by a variety of methods much like Google. Q Music represents the compositions of 65+ composers including Grammy Award winner, Chauncey Mahan and John Swihart (Napoleon Dynamite) contribute music to Q's body of work. Most have Film/TV credits.

Q Music Collective uses the prefix “QMIX” before track titles as a way of marking its tracks for general royalty and other identification. QMIX tracks can be heard on Film, DVD and television programming from network, syndication, cable and the Internet.

The company frequently issues music from its contributing composers and also hosts Camjams, which are experimental “sessions” at its studio in Beachwood Canyon, a hillside enclave just up from “Hollywood” in the hills. Collins conducts “lab” music sessions to deconstruct the current zeitgeist of popular music and songs analyzing for the presence of trends in the industry.

Credits/placements

Q Music places music both in-show and promos including music for: Brothers and Sisters and Desperate Housewives on Touchstone/ABC, Bones on FOX, Kid Nation and Moonlight on CBS, Celebrity Expose on My Network TV, TV One Access on TV One, and Hollywood Green on Discovery’s Planet Green.

Access Hollywood (syndicated)
Access Hollywood Live (syndicated)
Brothers And Sisters (ABC)
Desperate Housewives (ABC)
Dancing With The Stars (ABC)
The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
True Blood (HBO)
The Tonight Show (NBC)
Southland (TNT)
Billionaire Crime Scenes (E!)
Chelsea Lately Show (E!)
Daily 10 (E!)
E! News (E!)
E! After Party Academy Awards (E!)
Soup (E!)
Dish (Style)
How Do I Look (Style)
Kimora Life In The Fab Lane (Style)
Tacky House (Style)
Countdown Academy Awards (TV Guide)
[...] & The City 2 (HBO Films)
Cop Out (Warner Bros)
Bones (ABC)
Celebrity Expose (Syndicated)
Hollywood Green (Planet Green: Discovery)
TV One Access (TV One)
CSI (CBS)
Dish (Style)
Drumline (20th Century Fox)
The Simpson’s Movie (20th Century Fox)
National Treasure 2 (Disney)
The Sword And The Stone (Disney)
I Think I Love My Wife (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
The Architect (HD.net)
Rambo (Lionsgate)
Saw III (Lionsgate)
George Lopez (ABC)
October Road (ABC)
The Practice (ABC)
What About Brian (ABC)
Kid Nation (CBS)
Moonlight (CBS)
The Riches (FX)
The OC (Fox)
Third Watch (NBC)
Corey in the House (Disney)
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs (Sony-DVD)
Capital One (commercial)
Campbell Soup (commercial)
Honey Baked Ham (commercial)
Ping (commercial)
Yoplait (commercial)

First indie release

For Campbell Collins (AKA Duner) years of dedication to the creation of original music (as opposed to getting others music into TV/Film for his day job) has culminated in the release of Duner, an original Electro Rock five-track EP set to debut throughout Late 2011, early 2012. Collins sourced his travels and experiences to create the Indiana Jones meets Howard (or Grace) Jones alter ego, Duner.

His musical character mixes political awareness with edgy kitsch to lighten the sometimes dark undertones of his musical muse. The first single to drop, "Istanbul Moon", is a deeply layered journey to where East meets West and political tensions are reflected in exotic tones of the Duduk – a hypnotic double reeded instrument native to the region.

Taking 5+ years to complete, the Duner EP is a transportive experience featuring some highly credentialed producers and musicians. The production is reminiscent of that of a movie replete with soundesign and FX. As in one of his song introductions at a recent Hard Rock-Hollywood gig “This song teases elements from film into the production flipping the usual relationship of Soundtrack Music on its head. As Collins said “We supply the soundtrack and story, you supply the pictures…in your head…that is our space.”

The first track from Duner, “Ghost in the Belfry” opens the EP with the sound of a wood wheeled cart (circa 100 years ago) on a cobblestone road. The album ends in a vamp of Turkish- tinged Electronica mashed into a Turkish Kasbah. The other three releases don’t let up much either as they deal with politics, necrophilia, and the flash point of the last bomb. Duners’ creative Muse and Motto: Music Meets Movies in the Sand …for now.