Circles on G+ with Musicians Open To CC Collaboration?

Circles on G+ with Musicians Open To CC Collaboration?
A lot of the photographers on G+ also produce timelapse movies, which are best set to music. Music can make our visual work more compelling, stunning visuals can make your music more compelling. Rather than go the common online route of simply using whatever's convenient, it would be great to use the community and features of G+ to introduce visual and musical artists willing to collaborate, and help them come together. I've searched collections of Creative Commons work, but it's really difficult to find quality instrumental tracks (I can't set all my videos to techno). Perhaps we can start by creating a circle of musicians who already have trailer or soundtrack-compatible cc music, or who at least would like to receive and consider specific collaboration opportunities?

Some of the folks on G+ producing timelapse videos are pros, some are wrapping up feature films, many have large followings to give some nice visibility to musicians interested in greater marketing reach (or in adding some visual punch to their music demos).

Here are a few sample clips from my timelapses: http://vimeo.com/jeffsullivan/videos
One was picked up by the Discover blog: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/08/25/perseids-writ-large/
They're mostly older work; I haven't put together a demo reel yet while I lack suitable music and I've largely stopped uploading silent clips, but that's what I'd like to address.

There's an interesting discussion I'm forwarding below, including the reference to a potential source for commercial projects (directory: http://audiojungle.net/category/music/cinematic/dramatic-action-adventure). But I invest a lot of time and money in my creative work too, and promotion to my thousands of contacts isn't worthless either (my visual works have in the vicinity of 10 million view online), so I'm specifically looking for people interested in co-marketing. Any commercial use which comes up as a result would of course involve a different license.

So if you're a musician who would like to entertain collaboration proposals, respond here, perhaps with a link to tracks you'd like considered. If there's enough interest, perhaps we'll start a circle and come up with hashtags so we can easily find the latest music and video clips from people open for collaboration.

Note on shares: If I'm not mistaken, if you share this post from your incoming stream it'll delete my commentary here (an odd and unfortunate quirk of G+). Perhaps if you go directly to the link for this post and share that, it'll work: https://plus.google.com/107459220492917008623/posts/fP4AWytNAJx

Here's a direct link to the similar discussion by Ben Canales as well:
https://plus.google.com/107328949221172543768/posts/3fizsg4tFCq

Originally shared by Ben Canales

I HATE searching for royalty free soundtracks. It drives me nuts. Anyone know some sound artists here on G+ that may have work suitable to a night timelapse piece?

Comments

  1. I am doing both time lapse and music composition. Thanks for this timely post. I'll give it some thought.

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  2. I'm guessing that Daria Musk will be first into the fray. ;)

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  3. I'm always down for a cool collab. See my profile for more music than you can probably use.

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  4. Chris Pirillo I'm hoping "fray" is a synonym for "spectacular meeting of creative minds"...

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  5. Annnd as always Chris Pirillo is right! ;-) Thanks for the shout out!
    Great to "meet" you Jeffrey Sullivan I would love to be in this conversation! My producer RAM Rich, who most people know from his bass playing and standing behind me while I sing in Hangout Concerts, is actually a real and brilliant film scorer and composer! He's written for HBO, Cinemax, Ralph Lauren, etc etc. And he is sitting on a giant mountain of material in nearly every genre. ;-)

    Here's his soundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/ramusic
    It has a little sampling of his vast catalogue

    And here's my site: www.dariamusk.com too. :-)
    Would love to chat! Maybe we could even talk video work - for music? :-)
    We disliked submitting music to those giant online music libraries and middlemen as much as Ben Canales hated searching for music with them! Excited to work directly and creatively!

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  6. I bet Rob Michael will be... oh, nevermind.

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  7. I'm running out to go work in Yosemite for a couple of days (tough job, but someone's got to do it), but keep 'em coming, and I'll explore the suggestions as I dig out when I get back. Thanks!!

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  8. If you need some classical mood, my works are open for collaborations!
    My youtube (only the Andrea Rossi's ones!): www.youtube.com/simandr
    My album on Jamendo: http://www.jamendo.com/it/album/88009

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  9. Thank you Ben Canales! I'm going to write you back anyway! ;)

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  10. I saw Vimeo was already linked in the article, but they have a music store for this since a short while. It's full of music for video production and the best is the integration of the Free Music Archive #ccmusic

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  11. Jeffrey Sullivan I'm down to collaborate. I can place new music analog style. Can also provide instrumentals for any of these tracks: http://sodacon.bandcamp.com

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  12. Count me in! I produce CC-licensed electronic and rock music under the Rigel 7 monicker, all free to download and share at http://rigel7.com. Most has vox, but latest just happens to be instrumental: http://rigel7.com/track/procession/.

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  13. I'd be into collaborating on a piece by piece basis ... I'd rather see the visuals first and then submit a composition that's inspired by what I see. If anyone's into that, give me a shout.

    If a circle's being created for these audio-visual collaborations, count me in.

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  14. I'm wrapping up a book project this month, so I'll be uploading more timelapse videos while I produce fewer stills. Here's a sample clip (silent, unscored) I added to G+ this morning.
    https://plus.google.com/107459220492917008623/posts/42yKhHoFQpk

    It was uploaded as 720P HD video, so you need to click on the "480" below the clip to upgrade to its native resolution. Then click the "full screen" icon.

    I should start a separate video album, or maybe that should wait for the finished portfolio-quality productions with sound.

    I produced this sample from 1,200 individual 21-megapixel still images, downsized it to 1080P HD, then again to 720P HD MP4 for a more reasonable file size, yet still reasonable quality full screen.

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