Category: Music

You can listen to ambient and space music free at the Earth Mantra website. Here’s a link to the latest collaborative release of a few friends of ours, and longtime fellow travellers, Jim Combs, Jez Creek, and Kevin Haller. It’s interesting and evocative music. Good for late evening reading and such, where the music finds focus in some other region of the brain. There is much other free music to be found at Earth Mantra. All worth exploring.

The Earth Mantra label was started by our friend Darrell Burghan a few years back, mainly to offer an outlet for space-ambient works that would probably not find a home elsewhere. We remember Darrell as the artist Palancar, from the old MP3.com days. A thoroughly decent chap, whom we hold in high regard. We applaud his work to keep this small but interesting genre of music vigorous and growing. The music is free, and can be used non-commercially under the Creative Commons license, which on a website looks like this:
So you can listen to this music, and share it, but not, oh say, use it for background music for your cool online photo slideshow, which you then post on a commercial, revenue generating website. Well, maybe you could use it that way, but you really should ask the artist for permission first. It’s just common courtesy, even if they work cheap, or even free. If you are interested in licensing the work of local starving ambient artists, or any of these unpaid Earth Mantra artists I’ve mentioned here for your local new media project, I can help put you in touch with them. It’s Really Redding.
PS Don’t miss listening to Silvercord – Symphony of Sighs. Perfect for writing.

Craig Padilla put up a video we made while recording some music in the studio a while back, and it’s been viewed 11,800 times since he put it up. That’s kind of fun to think about.

But there’s an oddity about the viewership. Craig divided the whole video piece into 4 parts. The first segment has garnered over 11,000 views, but the second part drops to 7,159 views. Okay, it’s not your thing, so about 4600 people chose not to watch the second segment, which had only 7159 views. But then about 3400 people skip over the the 3rd segment for total views of 10,615. Huh? Then it drops down to 8283 for the 4th and final segment. Just odd. So maybe 7,159 people watched all 4 segments? Who knows. Anyway interesting to think about our many viewers. Although not exactly viral, we had no idea it would reach so many. What would life be like without YouTube? Thanks to all viewers!