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Jacquie Lawson e-card music
THE MUSIC BEHIND THE E-CARDS
MIKE HUGHES-CHAMBERLAIN AND JACQUIE LAWSON E-CARDS
by Christopher Morley
It's always a joy when an e-greetings card plops into your inbox, not least at festive times of the year. It's easy to understand why the sending of these cyber-messages has become so popular, given the huge cost of postage nowadays
At the forefront of this trend are the e-cards produced by Jacquie Lawson, and in addition to the attractive artwork, witty and sensitive storylines, and interactive opportunities offered by these little gems, comes the input of music, atmospheric and appropriate.
Whether specially composed or arranged from other sources, these sound-pictures are masterminded by Mike Hughes-Chamberlain, who has made the seamless connection between a musical education and Information Technology in order to create scores for these scores of delightful little gems.
He was brought up in Hindhead in Surrey, where his mother founded a music school in 1975.