[ale] "podsafe" and free music

[Larry Johnson]

I noticed that myself  (I'm a Baroque enthusiast, for mathematical as
well as aesthetic reasons).  I actually think that underfunded forms
of music (and art music certainly fits that category) could really
benefit by the success of this approach.  The symphony orchestras,
chamber ensembles, etc, can't possibly absorb the number of competent
musicians produced by the music departments of colleges and
universities around the country.  This would (to put it in somewhat
crass form) create a direct marketing opportunity for good classically
trained musicians.

Larry

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/04/2010 09:47 PM, Larry Johnson wrote:
>> I don't know how many of you are already aware of this (I really
>> wasn't) but while scrounging around for music for my podcasts I
>> stumbled into the world of "podsafe" music.  The licensing is all over
>> the map, from GPL inspired licenses, to Creative Commons, to public
>> domain.  But there's a lot of excellent stuff out there in every
>> imaginable genre.  The first site I've fully explored is the Free
>> Music Archive at http://freemusicarchive.org/     Among other things I
>> found 1930s Samba, 87 fantastic folk songs performed by Roger McGuinn
>> as part of the Folk Den project (his rendition of "Follow the Drinking
>> Gourd" sends chills up my spine), ideologically committed free music
>> rock musicians like The Taxpayers, lots of electronic music, etc.
>>
>> If any of you haven't explored this resource (which is directly
>> related to the Free Software philosophy) you should.
>>
>> Larry
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> Thanks for the tip, looks like a pretty good Jazz & Blues collection but
> a little short on the Classical genre. That's just an initial browse, I
> do plan to return for a more in-depth look and sampling.
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