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Per-project licensing.
Every deal is written for a single project, a single window, a single medium. No blanket rights, no surprise renewals.
Original jazz cues from a working horn player.
For music supervisors, creative directors, producers, and brand teams scoring television · film · advertising · trailers · corporate storytelling.
The Catalog
Six moods, written like a set.
Each cue is a complete composition — not a loop, not a fingerprinted library cut. They share a single composer and a single room, so a supervisor can build a ten-track underscore from one voice across one project without the catalog shifting underneath them.
- 01
Late-Night Brass
Slow · minorMuted horns, brushed kit, a single bass figure holding the room. The cue supervisors reach for when the scene needs a man alone with a drink.
- 02
Honey and Smoke
Medium · balladishWarm tenor register over a soft Rhodes, the conversational feel that defines the mid-century after-hours set.
- 03
Swing Set, Five-Piece
Up · brightA real rhythm section, a real shout chorus. Cut to length with a clean fade, ready for a title card or a confident montage.
- 04
Underscore / Pressure Cooker
Any · restrainedLower-third, behind-the-voice bed. Holds a mood without competing with dialogue or a presenter.
- 05
Cinematic Balladry
AndanteTrombone lead, written for camera. The arc resolves on screen, then closes cleanly at the cut.
- 06
Confident Corporate
Walking · majorA swing pulse without aggression. The cue brand teams return to for keynote opens and product launches that want to feel established, not loud.
Stems & Mixes
What you actually receive.
The boutique difference isn't only the catalog — it's the deliverables. Every cue ships with the layers, lengths, and metadata a supervisor needs to land it on picture without a second round of redelivery.
01Full mix
Broadcast-safe, mastered for TV / radio / web. Layered stems available on request.
02Alternate mixes
15s, 30s, 60s cuts · stinger · underscore · alt outro. Sized to picture from the first pass.
03Instrumental stems
Rhythm section, harmony, lead voice — split clean, no phasing, no half-finished layers.
04Trackout (when needed)
Fully isolated elements for ad placement and re-arrangement downstream.
05Cue metadata
BPM · key · writer splits · publisher info · ISRC and ISWC on delivery · descriptive tags.
06Signed paperwork
Per-project license, signed and filed before the cue ships. Standard terms same-day, custom terms within a week.
Licensing
The deal in plain English.
Standard terms issued the same day the request lands. Custom terms — territories, media splits, perpetuity — returned within a week, in writing.
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Plain-English paperwork.
The license sits on a single page. Splits, territories, term, and media are spelled out before the cue ships.
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Pricing that respects both sides.
Inducive for independent film. Matched for advertising. Always a quoted number on the first reply, never a quote-to-quote-or-bid spiral.
Pricing is per-project, scoped to medium, term, and territory. Independent film receives the lightest quote; advertising scales with media weight and duration. Quotes are always in writing, always before the cue ships.
About the Catalog
A single composer. A real horn.
A story behind every track.
Sliphorn is built by Noel Freeman — a trombonist, composer, and arranger based in Houston, Texas. Every cue in the catalog is written and performed by him, captured with real players in a real room, with the conversational feel that defines the tradition.
Outside the bandstand, Noel has spent two decades in municipal administration, grants, and organizational development. Sliphorn brings that operational rigor to music licensing — fast responses, clean paperwork, pricing that respects both the artist and the producer.
Get in Touch
Tell me what you’re scoring.
Send a brief, a timeline, or a single reference cue. Same-day reply on standard terms; one week on custom. No gates, no intake form — straight to a working musician’s inbox.