Barry Cole

Barry Cole and Sweet Spot Music (est. 2001), stand at the threshold of where music meets media and technology. Spot Music is an independent consultation, licensing and music supervision firm with more than 100 credits (Film.TV, Video Games), including The Chi, Who Killed Malcolm X, Living With Yourself, Songs That Shook America, The New Edition Story, Mind Of A Chef, The Daily Show, Sling Blade, American Psycho, Super Troopers, Talk To Me, Belly, Brown Sugar, Our Family Wedding, Roll Bounce, Beautyshop and Notorious. In addition to music supervision for films, Cole has a proven track record in Media Production, Soundtrack A&R, Music Publishing and Music Licensing. Cole is a Producer of the soundtrack for the film "Brown Sugar" from which the single "Love Of My Life" performed by Erykah Badu and Common won the Grammy for R&B Single Of The Year.     Barry Cole's exceptional talent as a Music Supervisor caught the attention of Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records. Blackwell tapped Cole to manage his Blue Mountain Music publishing catalog of over 15,000 songs including the catalogs of such luminaries as Bob Marley. Cole and Blackwell were Grammy nominees for their work on the documentary “Marley” in the category of Best Compilation for Visual Media.   Cole is Co-Producer of the documentary “Alive Inside” which won the coveted audience award at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.  The film explores the strong link that is made between music and memory.    Cole is Producer of "The Art Of Dying Young" with Director Shawn Peters. The project is a mixed reality project promoting hyper local tours based around memorial murals. The project is the recipient of a grants from Creative Capitol, Verizon's 5G Lab and was invited to the Sundance New Frontier Lab. Cole has presented at Film Music workshops (IFP, NYU), Augmented Reality and Technology events including ARNY (Augmented Realty NY) and AWE (The Augmented Reality World Expo).   Cole has pioneered a method that he calls "augmation" that brings public art, murals and graffiti to life through the use of smartphones.     In 2014 Cole created multisfalcon.com to deliver high quality audio multitracks and stems for sale to the Production Audio and Pro Audio markets. Multisfalcon also helps artists an writers prepare their music for monetization.  Cole and Sweet SPOT Music provide music supervision, lcensing, publishing and music tech services for all media. Current clients include Netflix, MACRO, Jigsaw Productions, AMC and Amazon Studios. email [email protected].   film and tv credits can be found at this link: http://www.imdb.me/barrycole   music credits can be found at this link: http://www.allmusic.com/artist/barry-cole-mn0000144405/credits        

Music, Media, Licensing, Gaming, Publishing, Development, Mixed Reality, Arts Education, Wellness