Hold Music

[cheddatom]

I bet there's at least one bass chatter who writes hold music? I'm on hold to Eon now. There's a fairly nice piece that starts with what sounds like harmonic diads played on bass. It then layers up with some guitar and a bit of percussion. It sounds like something someone would do at an open mic with a looper, except it just goes round and round and there's no vocal.

 

One section in particular had me thinking - do these companies ask the composer to deliberately attempt to get the caller to put the phone down? I'd be interested to know what sort of brief you get

 

There's a slightly out of tune guitar just running down the major scale, over and over again and it feels like it's screaming at me JUST HANG UP

[WinterMute]

Most of it is just library music from one or other of the standing collections, you can license it fairly cheaply.

 

I've always liked KMR's hold music which is the little Jazzy piece from the Vision On Gallery sequences.

[musicbassman]

Here's the Jacob Mann Big band with Sam Wilkes on bass and Louis Cole on drums. I'd be happy staying on the line if I was hearing this.

 

 

[cheddatom]

1 hour ago, musicbassman said:

Here's the Jacob Mann Big band with Sam Wilkes on bass and Louis Cole on drums. I'd be happy staying on the line if I was hearing this.

 

 

Fantastic! I'm a big Louis Cole fan but hadn't seen this before, thanks!

[MacDaddy]

IIRC research shows that people are likely to stay on hold longer, if music they do not know is playing.

 

[Happy Jack]

7 minutes ago, MacDaddy said:

IIRC research shows that people are likely to stay on hold longer, if music they do not know is playing.

 

[Citation missing.]

[MacDaddy]

14 minutes ago, MacDaddy said:

IIRC research shows that people are likely to stay on hold longer, if music they do not know is playing.

 

 

6 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

[Citation missing.]

 

North, A., Hargreaves, D. and Mckendrick, J., 1999. Music and on-hold waiting time. British Journal of Psychology, 90(1), pp.161-164.

 

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[Downunderwonder]

The ones that bug the poopie out of me loop back out of time on repeat.

[OliverBlackman]

I did apply to be an on hold composer for a company in Manchester. Don’t know what the requirements are because I didn’t get a response.

[cheddatom]

3 minutes ago, OliverBlackman said:

I did apply to be an on hold composer for a company in Manchester. Don’t know what the requirements are because I didn’t get a response.

Did you try calling them?

[Graham]

I've got very familiar with Wren Kitchens and DFS's hold music and if I were to hear them now would probably trigger Pavlovian rage.

 

There was supplier I used to call quite regularly in my supply chain days in Essex who had a pub-rock CD as their hold music, Judas Priest and similar. When I complimented them on this they said it had been set by a previous employee and they didn't know how to change it

[cheddatom]

The vets we use have a pretty cool chilled out trip-hop style instrumental thing, which would be great, except for some reason it's so loud it's constantly clipping. I have to turn the phone right down, and then back up again when they answer