Tracks to Sync, Sept 2011
Fanas comes to the FMA from Romania's Local Records, with a distinct electronic sound of contemporary Bucharest
Broke For Free is the beatmaking alias of Santa Cruz CA's Tom Casino, and "Something Elated" has been climbing up the FMA charts propelled largely by his progressive approach to licensing (Creative Commons BY).
Chris Zabriskie recently joined the FMA with 50 Creative Commons BY-NC tracks, and his music has been included in films showcased at festivals such as Art Basel Miami 2011 and in New York, Los Angeles, Singapore, and Costa Rica.
Jenifer Avila's music has been curated by Breitband, a program of Deutschlandradio Kultur, and released by the first Portugese netlabel Enough Records. (Creative Commons BY-NC-SA)
The Netherlands' Tony Dubshot is well known for his research in transgenic higher dub organisms. He also runs the Dubbhism label (Creative Commons BY-NC-SA)
Sunsearcher's cinematic rhythms include Dance, Latin, Flamenco, Brazilian, and Big Beat, and with titles like "Movie Rhythm2" he's clearly got filmmakers on the mind (Creative Commons BY-SA)
Cranston hails from Wisconsin and was introduced to the FMA by John Badger Farms (Creative Commons BY-NC-SA)
James Beaudreau is proprietor of Workbench Recordings, a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA netlabel.
Tracks to Sync 2012
Tracks to Sync is series of mixes curated with the online video producer in mind. Along with a few new faces, this playlist features updates from artists who'll already be familar to FMA regulars. License and artist info, and if you're new to Creative Commons, we've gathered links to great resources in our Music for Video portal.
You might recognize that Windom Earle track if you're one of the 5 million people who watched Fight for the Future's "PIPA/SOPA Break the Internet" video. [Creative Commons BY-NC-SA]
We discovered Immortal Beats on the Frostwire Creative Commons mixtape. [Creative Commons BY-SA]
Grass Hop is the latest release by Broke For Free aka Tom Cascino from Santa Cruz CA. His "Something Elated," as featured in Sept's Tracks to Sync, went on to top the charts at FMA and has been featured in countless videos throughout the web including this really cool timelapse of a 134 hour journey through Norway's "Hurtigruten". [Creative Commons BY-NC]
Bethlehem PA's Jared C. Balogh is a Classwar Karaoke participant who joined forces with Lee Rosevere's Happy Puppy Records for the new album Rhythms of Life. [Creative Commons BY-NC-SA]
Lloyd Rodgers is a contemporary experimental composer who makes his works dating back to the 1970s available through his website with "No Copyright / No Rights Reserved." This recording of his Cartesian Reunion Memorial Orchestra was originally composed to accompany a ballet.
The Freak Fandango Orchestra is a multi-ethnic band from Barcelona who recently performed at Barbés Brooklyn and release music under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.
Oddio Overplay first introduced the FMA to Lee Rosevere, a Canadian composer who approaches music informed by his professional broadcast experience. His latest album was imagined as a soundtrack to Isaac Asimov's science fiction stories (link). [CC BY-NC-SA]
Ending Satellites from Bayonne France mix music with photography in a journey between pictures and melodies. Be sure to get the free deluxe version of their new album for its accompanying artworks! [Creative Commons BY-NC-SA]
The OO-Ray took part in disquiet's Instagr/am/bient: 25 Sonic Postcards in which artists composed music to accompany each other's insagram photos, using sonic and visual filters to explore the intersection of technology, aesthetics, and artistic process.
Blear Moon also inspired a Danny Cooke film, as featured in April's Tracks to Sync. Now based in Prague, the Russia-born artist returns with another fantastic ambient release, Town of Two Houses.
Chris Zabriskie recently removed the NonCommercial clause from his work in favor of Attribution-only, and wrote an article, "Why I Went CC-BY," explaining his reasoning. His latest release, Undercover Vampire Policeman, is beautifully minimal and darkly cinematic, with excellent song titles to boot. [CC-BY]
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CC-BY Music Featured in the Web Series '8 for Vegas'
In September of 2011, I started editing the first season of my web series "8 for Vegas," a mockumetary about the NYC pool team Show Your Balls. I had a ton of footage, enough for 9 episodes... but was missing one crucial element: Music.
Earlier in the year, I shot video for a fundraising campaign and came across Kevin MacLeod's site of royalty-free music that is free to use commercially.
It was enormously helpful, and added a dimension to the series that only music can bring.
But I knew I was going to need a ton more music for the remaining episodes, and found myself at Soundcloud.com. Using their fantastic search feature, I was able to find a TON of music that was free to use commercially under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution license (the same license used by Kevin MacLeod).
We share all of our musical discoveries through a dedicated music page on our website. At the invitation of Jason from the FMA, we've also curated a mix of some selections for the Free Music Archive. I hope you enjoy it. There is not only fantastic music out there to use for your film and video projects, but also a bunch of great music to download and enjoy personally.
You can check out the first season of "8 for Vegas" here, and if you end up enjoying it, help us spread the word about season 2!
Thank you for reading!
John Painz
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all tracks licensed Creative Commons Attribution