Antoine Portes

Virtuel Audio

Most of my works are published by Virtuel Audio, which is also a recording/mixing studio (located in the 5^th arrondissement of Paris) and a welcoming team whose members are all whether sound engineer, composer or both. They record sound (on shootings or in studio), compose soundtracks, make sound design and proceed to final mixes, mostly in the field of documentaries. Moreover, they were among the first people to dig into VR 360, and thus enjoy a state-of-the-art knowledge of this technology.

catalogue VAM: va-musique.com

official website: www.virtuel-audio.com

Author's rights

As a member of the Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Éditeurs de Musique (Sacem), I ought to declare every one of my works to the aforementioned society. The Sacem handles my author's rights and protects my compositions' intellectual property. Besides, by virtue of an agreement between the Sacem and the association Creative Commons (CC), my scores are available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC-BY-NC-SA).

the Sacem: www.sacem.fr

Creative Commons: www.creativecommons.org

N.B.: For audio files, however, all rights are reserved to the composer (Antoine Portes) and the publisher (if any).

Webmaster

I wanted to create this website by myself, from scratch, eventhough I've never recieved any IT training. The purpose being to ensure complete control over its functioning and aesthetics; but also to make sure that users' privacy doesn't get threatened (no ad, no cookie, no tracker, etc.).
I made it thanks to the valuable tutorials by W3schools which allow noobs like me to make a proper use of HTML, CSS and javascript — I stuck to these three, but W3schools' website offers to get a lot further — requiring nothing more than a simple text editor (I've personally chosen Visual Studio Code, but there are many out there, all equally good and, most often, available for free).

W3schools: www.w3schools.com

Visual Studio Code: code.visualstudio.com

other text editors: Wikipedia.org

Amongst the various free hosting solutions, I chose GitHub Pages, for it is the only one, that I know of, which simply hosts web pages whithout interfering with their code, full responsability of the latter thus being left to the uploader. Nevertheless, eventhough this solution fits my particular needs, most people would rather appreciate services that come with extra features like creation tools or domain names.

GitHub Pages: pages.github.com

Miscellaneous

People learning music on their own, like I do, will understand better than anyone else how useful it can be to deeply analyse a fugue by Bach, a quartet by Bartók or some variations by Webern; to read treatises on harmony by Rameau, Reicha, Koechlin, Schönberg... treatises on counterpoint and fugue by Fux, Gédalge, Koechlin... the treatise on orchestration by Berlioz...
They will therefore be glad to find all this, plus infinitely more, for free, at the Internet Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), whose debt I am forever in.

IMSLP: imslp.org

Lastly, I can be followed on several social networks. They are listed below:

SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/user-628573978

Musescore: musescore.com/antoineportes

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/antoineportes

Facebook: www.facebook.com/Antoine-Portes-101072901461802

YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC2aYhPPGMsBFx4ovKbMonSQ