Native Tongue is an independent music publisher, with offices in Australia and New Zealand.
Besides acquiring rights to local writers, we also administer the works of overseas writers and catalogues for Australia and New Zealand.
Established in 2003, Native Tongue has built a respected catalogue of local writers. We set out to provide writers with a publishing company dedicated to assisting with the development of their skills as songwriters and composers throughout their careers.

Although we are a small company, we see this is one of our major advantages. It enables us to be far more proactive than our competitors and react quickly to the needs of our clients, whether they be film and television companies, commercial advertisers or the bands of which our writers are members.

We see our role as getting out there and getting things done, working with the band, the management, the record label and the distributor to make things happen.
Our job is to work with you to help you achieve your goals, as a songwriter and in many cases; an artist. We have a broad network of contacts we can utilise in all areas of the business – record companies, distributors, booking agents, promoters, publicists, radio, etc.

We will work with you, your management and record distributor to maximise sales of your record. You probably have most bases covered but there will always be something we can do to help squeeze those extra sales. It may be that we help a band get on a festival bill, provide advice on obtaining touring grants or come up with that song opportunity in a film that breaks through at the box office – who knows – it's an ephemeral business and its not always easy pinning down where things will come from.

If you are looking to place songs with other artists we have a worldwide network of contacts who work songs on that basis. If you want to co-write we will work with you to develop connections with writers you want to work with. If you want to compose film or television scores we are ideally placed to help you realise these ambitions.
We get out there and do the hard yards wherever it is required.
We have over the years developed publishing relationships internationally and through our music supervision business have come to know those companies who work particularly hard gaining sync licenses and pursuing the ancillary income that is available around the world. We have also established a network of international sub-publishers to administer our works around the world. In each case our sub-publishers are established independents with a long term track record of working within their own territory.

Native Tongue also enjoys strong relationships with all the major US, UK, Canadian and European music supervisors and can submit clients works for use in a wide range of projects around the world.

We are also the only publisher with offices and staff on the ground in Australia and New Zealand enabling us to fully represent your copyrights in the key markets in our home territory.
Native Tongue is closely associated with Mana Music, which is the major music supervisor for feature films, television series, and documentaries in Australia and New Zealand. As a result Native Tongue is in a strong position to place its writer's songs in the wide range of projects.

A similar situation applies in respect to television commercials where once again Mana Music is the major provider of licensing services to the advertising agencies.

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AUSTRALIA

Ph +61 3 9445 0500

PO Box 1570
Collingwood, VIC 3066
Australia

Chris Gough - Managing Director
chris@nativetongue.com.au

Jaime Gough - International Manager
jaime@nativetongue.com.au

Matt Tanner - A&R / Creative Manager
matt@nativetongue.com.au

David Nash - Copyright & Royalties Manager
david@nativetongue.com.au

Kate Mills - Licensing & Admin Assistant
kate@nativetongue.com.au

NEW ZEALAND

Ph +64 9 378 9667

PO Box 8926
Symonds Street, Auckland 1150
New Zealand

Jan Hellriegel - General Manager
jan@nativetongue.co.nz

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Dale Cornelius BIOGRAPHY

Dale Cornelius has been writing scores and songs for feature films, television series, documentaries, television commercials and major events and launches for the last 16 years. He has won the Australian Guild of Screen Composers award for ‘Best Music' twice and been nominated several more times. In 2002 his score for 'Till Human Voices Wake Us' was given The Age's ‘Critic's Choice' for Best Australian Film Score.

Dale was chosen to be the head composer for Australia's pavilion at World Expo in Japan 2005 writing a variety of music compositions from a choreographed drum'n'bass piece using ‘found' instruments to an emotive ballad sung by Tjimba Possum Burns about our country's landscape and what it is to ‘be home'. He also composed the orchestral soundtrack for the AFL World Museum cinema experience using the M.S.O. and an emsemble of Taiko drummers, and scored the two part documentary series Revealing Gallipoli, which screened across five countries on ANZAC eve in 2005. Dale is also actively involved in writing chamber music. This May, '100 Voices' is having it's World Premiere at The Fantadia Multimedia Festival in Italy, with images provided by Lonely Planet. Dale is still working on his solo album, featuring string quartet, piano and atmospheric grooves due to be released later this year....fingers crossed!

DISCOGRAPHY & CREDITS

  • Mary and Max OST (2009, Mana Music)
    Mary and Max OST (2009, Mana Music)
    The original soundtrack featuring music by Dale Cornelius.
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  • Torn (2008)
    Torn (2008)

    In 2008, Dale scored the soundtrack to this psychological thriller.

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  • Family Footsteps (2006)
    Family Footsteps (2006)

    In 2006 Dale scored the highly rated ABC doco/reality series "Family Footsteps" which is about to commence a second series later in the year.

  • Footy Legends (2006)
    Footy Legends (2006)

    In 2005, Dale scored the feature film "Footy Legends", written and directed by Khoa Do and produced by Megan McCurchy.

  • Strange Bedfellows (2004)
    Strange Bedfellows (2004)

    In 2004, Dale scored the feature comedy, "Strange Bedfellows", starring Paul Hogan and Michael Caton which was the highest grossing Australian film of that year.

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  • Till Human Voices Wake Us (2002)
    Till Human Voices Wake Us (2002)

    Dale's score for acclaimed feature film "Till Human Voices Wake Us", starring Guy Pearce and Helena Bonham Carter, was given The Age's ‘Critic's Choice' for Best Australian Film Score.

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  • Saddle Club (2001, ABC)
    Saddle Club (2001, ABC)

    Dale scored the ABC-TV children's series "The Saddle Club", and wrote several songs for the soundtrack album and single which acheived ‘gold' sales in Australia.