Biography
For a commercial license visit soundofpicture.com.
A mysterious bear named Podington took the Internet by storm in 2007, releasing three beautifully crafted songs a week. Podington's podcast rubbed shoulders with KEXP's Song of the Day and NPR's All Songs Considered atop the the iTunes charts, while his story captivated Morning Edition, The Globe and Mail, Wired.com's Listening Post, and and dozens of influential music blogs. The experiment inspired countless new works of art, and translated into commercial success.
The true identity of Podington Bear remained a mystery throughout the entire project. Then, upon the release of a retrospective box set in July 2008 his identity was revealed. Chad Crouch, proprietor of Portland Oregon's influential HUSH Records, and former bandleader for the group Blanket Music was the big-eared culprit.
Since then, Crouch has continued to record instrumental music as Chad Crouch, Listening Spot, Sleeping Animal, Mello C, & A. A. Aalto, while significantly broadening his ouevre to include minimalism, neoclassical, ambient, soul, and simply more of what people were attracted to in the first place: Music that surprises and delights, regardless of genre.
Crouch has complied his catalog in an extensive music library entitled The Sound Of Picture Production Library. Designd for both creative pros and amateurs, tracks are free to download and free to use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License. For a commercial license, or clarification of terms please visit soundofpicture.com.
A mysterious bear named Podington took the Internet by storm in 2007, releasing three beautifully crafted songs a week. Podington's podcast rubbed shoulders with KEXP's Song of the Day and NPR's All Songs Considered atop the the iTunes charts, while his story captivated Morning Edition, The Globe and Mail, Wired.com's Listening Post, and and dozens of influential music blogs. The experiment inspired countless new works of art, and translated into commercial success.
The true identity of Podington Bear remained a mystery throughout the entire project. Then, upon the release of a retrospective box set in July 2008 his identity was revealed. Chad Crouch, proprietor of Portland Oregon's influential HUSH Records, and former bandleader for the group Blanket Music was the big-eared culprit.
Since then, Crouch has continued to record instrumental music as Chad Crouch, Listening Spot, Sleeping Animal, Mello C, & A. A. Aalto, while significantly broadening his ouevre to include minimalism, neoclassical, ambient, soul, and simply more of what people were attracted to in the first place: Music that surprises and delights, regardless of genre.
Crouch has complied his catalog in an extensive music library entitled The Sound Of Picture Production Library. Designd for both creative pros and amateurs, tracks are free to download and free to use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License. For a commercial license, or clarification of terms please visit soundofpicture.com.
