“Video” (Used 23 times)

Tracks to Sync is a monthly mix of music curated with the online video producer in mind.

As more and more people turn to video in the digital era, they are faced with the music licensing hurdles that have hindered many a film. At the same time, the increase in video production offers new opportunities for multimedia collaboration. This series aims to unite producers with musicians who have music to share for these purposes.

The tracks is this mix are available under Creative Commons licenses that allow for "derivative works," like a video (some CC licenses specify "NoDerivatives"), while retaining the parts of copyright that the rightsholders wish to keep. Creative Commons offers a few custom license combinations, and each is hyperlinked to a human-readable license + legal code, i.e. Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike, aka "BY-NC-SA". You can read more about the various CC combos here, and check out FMA's HELP & FAQ for more resources.

Before using any Creative Commons music for a project, you need to make sure you follow the track's license in order to avoid copyright infringement. If you're not sure whether your use is pre-cleared by a particular license, it's always a good idea to reach out to the artist directly. Click the "i" button below to view the license along with a URL or email address where you can secure 'more permissions.'

We always love to hear about collaborations inspired by FMA music, so if you use one of these tracks, please post a link to the track page as well as to our Video Showcase. We'll feature our favorite video made using this month's tracks in the next Tracks to Sync!

5. Denmark's Quantum Jazz [quantumjazz.net] released End of Line, their second and final album, via Jamendo under a CC Attribution-ShareAlike license. Jamendo PRO offers a cool way to secure more permissions directly from the group.

6. GaBlé's 2003 netaudio release le sac de l enfer 1 is a recent add from France's Los Emes De Oso netlabel. It's chock full of intriguing lofi folk-hop beats. More music available at gableboulga.com. "humm ok" is CC BY-NC-SA.

7. CBC Radio's technology program Spark first introduced us to Bulgaria's Antony Raijekov (tony.cult.bg). "By the Coast" can be found on Jazz U, a 2003-2006 retrospective [CC BY-NC]

I used a lot of songs for videos about Berlin and more. I do a walk through the city and the parks. In this case i was looking for music and often the music fits to the pictures. i will go on and shoot more videos and will use more music. But forgive my english, I am not a mothertongue ;-p

So you can read my german Blog at: Berlin Bei Fuss - Wordpress

Join the pictures and the music:

A. Berlin Bei Fuss

Videos on YouTube               -      Links for FMA-Song

1. Neukölln & Tempelhof       - MGee - Days of the Forgotten Flair

2. Kreuzberg                        - The New Mystikal Troubadours - Art's Holy Shrine

3. Mitte & Tiergarten            - Global Goon - Kefweth

4. Reichstag & Plötzensee     - Johnny Ripper - Journeyman

5. Rehberge & Wedding        - Chris Zabriskie - Prelude No. 20 & Scrabble Daddy - Tune

6. Humboldthain                  - Computer Magic - Electronic Fences

8. Prenzlauer Berg               - My Bubba & Me - I will never love a young boy again

9. Friedrichshain                  - Photophob - The Fragmentary i

11. Görlitzer Park                - Billy Murray - At the mermaids' fancy ball

B. Other Cities

Dresden                - Evgeny Grinko - Winter Sunshine EP

Frankfurt (Oder)    - Manuele Atzeni - Sleepwalkers Walk Alone

C. Other Projects - Website justfolded

Foldcorpus Kerze (Candle)           - My Bubba & Me - Good Night Heart

Foldcorpus Tutorial A Basic Case  - Jovanko

Foldcorpus Klassenkeil                - Aestrid Byrne - The End: I am not here ...

My sincere thanks to Lee Rosevere for lending me his track The Machine that Won the War for the video version of my short (photo)graphic novel, Story X: Win Lose or Draw.

As tonight's Oscars ceremony longs for Hollywood's heyday with a conservative parade of nostalgia films, I've been watching some online videos and thinking about the future.

More and more independent filmmakers are raising funds and distributing their work outside of the traditional studio model. The bottlenecks for film have been shattered in the same way that they have for music, and there is much to be gained through collaborations. We've already seen some inspiring examples of independent producers and musicians joining forces. Since many FMA artists use video-friendly Creative Commons licenses, we started the Music for Video Portal to help build these connections and provide important resources.

The tracks below were all found in one of our featured videos, Retour aux Sources - Fontainebleau 2012. Check out these incredible shots of bouldering in Fontainebleau, France:

The CC BY-NC-SA tracks by Learning Music and Blue Ducks were already on the FMA.

The johnny_ripper album has just been added, and I love the title: "Soundtrack For a Film that Doesn't Exist." It's the third album by one man named Jean from Lille, France (pictured at right). His other albums are available at his site, and he describes this one as "audio content for visualizing scenes in your head," using a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license to help those ideas come into existence (contact him if you'd like to use his music in a commercial project, or in a project that is not also Creative Commons licensed!)

My Bubba & Mi is the duo of Gudbjörg Tomasdottir and My Larsdotter. Originally from Iceland and Sweden, they are now based in Copenhagen. They've been playing music together since the late oughts, but theirs is a timeless sound: two acoustic stringed instruments (guitar, banjo, bass) + two sweet harmonized vocals. Occasionally sprinkled with organ, harmonica, a scraped washboard or train rumble:

"Steamengeene" is a track off of How It’s Done In Italy, a Creative Commons full-length from Utrecht's great label/netlabel Beep! Beep! Back Up The Truck. Last year, they followed it up with two EPs: BOB (in tribute to Bob Dylan?) and Wild & You, which are also available on very vinyl looking CDs from Beep Beep.

My Bubba & Mi recently founded the Hello Jingle Factory. They exhibited the project at the Reykjavik Art Museum, but it's not just art -- they've got a real jingles and an application form if you'd like to put your own message to song. Here's the entertaining infomercial: