Fun Friday Resources

Not all of us are composers. I mean, I barely am, and I write music. So what do you do if you need music for your video, your podcast, your upcoming production of As You Like It, auditioning this Sunday and Monday?

Have some resources:

The Free Music Archive (“powered by Tribe of Noise) is known for free-to-download music licensed under Creative Commons. You can limit the search by genre, length, rights, and instrumental-only. It only searches for words in artist names, tracks, and albums: there do not seem to be descriptors or tags to work with. Still, the stuff I found while playing with it was perfectly cromulent.

Free Production Music features the music of Jason Shaw — in other words, he wrote all the free music on the site, which is pretty impressive. There you can search for mood, genre, title, and tempo. Everything I found was solid.

Finally, should you choose to ignore most international copyright laws, he joked nervously, head over to Conv.youtube, where you can convert the sound of any YouTube video to an .mp3 file. I hasten to add that there are videos out there who provide exactly the kind of free music you’re looking for, in which case rip away!

If you use any of these resources in a project — or even just think of a project that you might do some day (as one does) — drop us a link in the comments!

Now, back to converting Lichtenbergianism: procrastination as a creative strategy to ebook format! SO CLOSE…