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jason on 01/30/2012 at 02:30PM
Tracks to Sync: Twelve for 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 below, and if you're new to the Creative Commons licenses that facilitate online sharing, we've gathered links to great resources in our Music for Video portal.
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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. |
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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. [Creative Commons BY-NC-SA]
junior85 aka Tony Higgins has struck up a very cool collaboration with filmmaker Danny Cooke, which began here at the FMA and we wrote about last year. Danny commissioned a new soundtrack for his latest film about letterpress and movable type. Junior85's soundtrack to Upside Down, Left To Right - A Letterpress Film is now available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license to inspire new works.
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. [Creative Commons BY-NC-SA]
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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Most of these artists provide contact info if you'd like to reach out for more permissions than the CC license grants -- they'll be happy to hear from you, and it can lead to cool collaborations like this one between Tony Higgins and Danny Cooke:
jason on 11/15/2011 at 07:45AM
Tracks to Sync, Nov 2011
Here's the latest volume of the FMA's Tracks to Sync series of Creative Commons music mixes curated with the online video producer in mind!
The FMA hosts music that wants to be shared under a range of licenses, and while some cannot be used in a video without permission from the artist because they have the "NoDerivatives" clause, the tracks in this mix can on terms that range from Attribution-only (CC BY) to the more popular Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA). If you're new to the site, you can read more in our FAQ and at Creative Commons' website.
Most of the artists in this mix offer more tracks on the FMA or beyond, so if you like what you hear you can dig deeper. You can also reach out to most artists directly via their homepage or FMA profile if you would like to license their music beyond the scope of the CC license, and whenever you use an artist's music we recommend sending them a link to the work they helped inspire by leaving a comment — they'll be happy to hear from you!
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Mark Neil has been creating music for over two decades, and describes his Black Lantern Music release Blue "as a soundtrack to a film never made" (Creative Commons BY-NC-SA) To the Dust: From Man You Came and To Man You Shall Return was recorded by the instrumental duo Charles Atlas and released for free by the essential Chicago-based online music resource Brainwashed (Creative Commons BY-NC-SA). Monster Rally is Ted Feighan from Columbus Ohio, and "Island on Fire" is his Bad Panda Records digi-single from earlier this year, composed during sessions for his Gold Robot debut LP Coral (Creative Commons BY-NC-SA). The Protagonist's "Punk Fuzz!" contains a NSFW sample, along with some sweet instrumental grooves; it kicked off WM Recordings' Wakka chikka wakka chikka: Porn music for the masses volume 2 (Creative Commons BY-NC-SA). The self-titled cassette by Chicago space/prog rock combo Ga'an was released digitally by Records on Ribs, and is now available on vinyl from Captcha Records (Creative Commons BY-NC-SA). Swedish post-rock project Our Last Hope Lost Hope was featured on Zeromoon Sampler III along with a range of experimental musics from around the globe, and "Godsstation" was released on vinyl by Future Recordings (Creative Commons BY-NC-SA). et_ hails from Bezhetsk, Russia, and "Kopeika" comes from the self-released The agency of missing hearts (Creative Commons BY-NC-SA). UK composer and sound designer Alastair Cameron shares a wide variety of film music and sound effects under a Creative Commons - Attribution license, meaning all you need to do is attribute him with a link to cameronmusic.co.uk. (Creative Commons BY) Italian pianist Fabrizio Paterlini's "Veloma" was originally released on the Viandanze EP (Clinical Archives) and can also be found on netBloc Vol. 30 (Creative Commons BY-NC-SA). This month's mix wraps up with two tracks by electronic keyboardist LJ Kruzer, whose work has been met with praise by the likes of Mary Anne Hobbs and Mixmaster Morries and for good reason! "Chantiers Navals 412" can be found on Dance Audit Hour, a compilation from the UK-based Uncharted Audio label, who also released Kruzer's Tam Variations (Creative Commons BY-NC-SA). |
video of the month:Daegu Notebook - vidblog #0003 from Bob R on Vimeo. Here's a quick vidblog/notebook from two weeks spent in Daegu, South Korea's fourth largest city (read more) |