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New Royalty Free Ambient Space Music Collection: Deep Space Ambient

Royalty Free Ambient Space Music (promo video) For Documentary & Film by Simon Wilkinson

Here’s the promo video for my latest royalty free music collection called Deep Space Ambient. In the 8th of my royalty free music series I’ve focused on ambient space music to give 10 tracks (75 minutes) of atmospheric and ethereal interstellar instrumental music for film and documentary makers.

The collection is intended to be ideal background music for documentaries, feature films, galleries, YouTube videos and other visual projects which need a deep immersive soundtrack. You’ll find shimmering ambient soundscapes, floating piano, dark sound design and epic layers of textural audio with no distracting drums or percussion. Ideal to add atmosphere and ambience to your documentaries and videos, whether the subject is outer space or not.

You can watch the promo video above featuring short clips from all 10 tracks on the album to get an idea of the sound or hear full length previews of all the tracks in the shop:

http://www.thebluemask.com/royalty-free-music-for-film-documentary-vol-8-deep-space-ambient/

Full licensing details are in the Licensing Info section or contact me if you have any questions.

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Spain Time Lapse Video From Martien Janssen Featuring Tempest

Following on from Martien Janssen‘s last time lapse video The Weather which featured some of my royalty free piano music, here’s another really nice atmospheric video filmed in southeast Spain and featuring my orchestral track Tempest.

“This trip was all about getting up before sunrise, catching every sunset and traveling or relaxing during daytime. Land- and seascapes were beautiful and I’ve really come to love the wild coast and wild west country, where Sergio Leone once filmed the legendary westerns.”

Martien Janssen

I particularly like the igloo-style accomodation! See more of Martien’s photography and design at www.zy-co.com

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Time Lapse Stars, Auroras And Supercells From Dean Gill Featuring My Music

Here’s some stunning time lapse video clips of supercell storms, stars and auroras from Dean Gill and featuring my music tracks Tempest and Falling Down. The videos come from various locations around the world including Italy, France and the US.

Check out more of Dean’s great photography here:

http://www.deanostorm.com

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Weather Time Lapse Film From Martien Janssen Featuring My Piano Music

Here’s a really nice new moody time lapse short film from Martien Janssen featuring lots of atmospheric cloud shots and weather, all shot in The Netherlands. The accompanying music is my track The Waiting from volume 1 of my royalty free music collections.

“The forecast was ‘good’, so me and my buddy Pyropix headed out and captured some wild footage during the day when 2 storms passed right over us. I shot almost 5000 shots in 24 scenes from 2pm to 11 pm, at several locations, using a D700 and D800 with a Emotimo TB3 dolly for movement.”

Martien Janssen

Martien Janssen photographer and designerMartien is a talented freelance photographer and graphic designer from Utrecht in The Netherlands.

See more of his graphic design and photography work over at his website Zy-Co Design & Photo:

http://www.zy-co.com

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Trailer For Documentary Film Exuma Featuring My Music

Here’s a trailer for a new documentary film by Colin Ruggiero called Exuma which features some of my music. As you can see from the trailer, the film features some beautiful underwater photography and time lapse footage all shot in HD:

“Prepare to hold your breath and dive into a thousand shades of blue on an exploration of the Exuma Cays – a tiny string of pearls tucked away in the middle of the 3,000 other islands that make up the Bahamas.  Shot entirely in HD, the film uses innovative underwater and time-lapse photography to capture the surreal beauty of the Exumas through the eyes of a young woman who lives there. Through Susanna’s eyes, we are given a window into a world few people have ever seen. Welcome to Exuma.”

Colin Ruggiero

Find out more about the film at www.exumafilm.com

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Some Of My Music Featured In New Financial Documentary: End Of The Road

End of the Road: How Money Became Worthless - Official Trailer (High Quality)

Some of my music is featured in a new financial documentary called End Of The Road: How Money Became Worthless, by filmmaker Tim Delmastro. The documentary takes a look at some of the issues leading to the recent global financial collapse and the future of the global economy.

You can watch the trailer for the movie above, which features my music track Kaleidoscope. The film is available on Netflix, Amazon or online at the official website for the film:

http://100thmonkeyfilms.com/endoftheroad/

Buy or stream End Of The Road on Amazon.com

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Books For Film Music Composers

I’ve found the following books for film music composers to be very useful when working with writing music to picture and generally getting set up for working with production music. They also serve as good tutorials for general music production & theory and offer advice about promoting and selling your music to film producers and getting your music placed in film & TV productions:

This Is Your Brain On Music
This Is Your Brain On Music
Daniel J. Levitin
A fascinating book that looks into the science of how we’re emotionally affected by music. The author is an experienced sound engineer, music and neuroscientist and brings his experience to rationalise and explain some of the mechanics of why we love to hear certain songs. Excellent reading for anyone with a love of music.

 

Music for New Media: Composing for Videogames, Web Sites, Presentations and Other Interactive Media
Music For New Media: Composing For Videogames, Web Sites, Presentations And Other Interactive Media
Paul Hoffert
Learn to: score videogames, develop music for different characters, address the standard types of scenes and cues and formats required by game publishers; develop music for web sites, use sound technologies with mobile devices to create ringtones and other sounds; create demos and portfolios for getting clients.

 

Cash Tracks: Compose, Produce, and Sell Your Original Soundtrack Music and Jingles
Cash Tracks: Compose, Produce, And Sell Your Original Soundtrack Music And Jingles
Jeffrey P. Fisher
Learn everything you need to know to make jingles and score video productions with this new, updated second edition of this popular book. Prepare and present your demo recordings, work with clients, craft profit-producing copy, promote your work, protect yourself legally, get the money you deserve and more.

 

How to Get Your Music in Film & TV
How To Get Your Music In Film & TV
Richard Jay
Tips and advice on getting your music placed in film soundtracks and on TV shows from independent musician and composer Richard Jay. A detailed look at how musicians, songwriters, publishers, and indie labels—producing every kind of music—can earn good money from placing their music into film and TV in the United States and beyond.

 

The Score: Interviews with Film Composers
The Score: Interviews With Film Composers
Michael Schelle
A collection of in-depth conversations with contemporary film composers of every style, background, and position in Hollywood’s hierarchy, offering a cross-section of current thoughts about the process of film composing, styles of film music, and working within today’s entertainment industry. Great interviews from film composers including Thomas Newman, James Newton Howard, Howard Shore, John Barry and many more.

 

From Score to Screen: Sequencers, Scores & Second Thoughts-The New Film Scoring Process
From Score To Screen: Sequencers, Scores & Second Thoughts – The New Film Scoring Process
Sonny Kompanek
With the advent of MIDI sequencers, high quality sample libraries and low-cost recording gear, just about any composer anywhere can score a film. Well-known composer Sonny Kompanek teaches this new film scoring process at the prestigious New York University and now he shares his secrets with the pages of From Score to Screen.

 

The Guide to MIDI Orchestration 4e
The Guide To MIDI Orchestration 4e
Paul Gilreath
An essential book for anyone working with MIDI orchestration. With detailed methods of scoring for all sections from strings through to percussion. Aimed directly at users of libraries such as East West/GPO/Vienna and other major packages but also wide enough to cover all approaches to orchestral MIDI arrangement. Essential for beginners through to pros.

 

Complete Guide to Film Scoring: The Art and Business of Writing Music for Movies and TV
Complete Guide To Film Scoring: The Art And Business Of Writing Music For Movies And TV
Richard Davis
I’ve found this to be a useful guide for any composer interested in learning the standard requirements for scoring to picture, eg basic film history, spotting, preparation etc (although quite US-centric). Also includes interviews with composers Danny Elfman, Elliot Goldenthal, Mark Isham, Alan Silvestri and many more.

 

Orchestration by Cecil Forsyth
Orchestration
Cecil Forsyth
Originally written in 1913, the book focuses on traditional approaches to writing for orchestra. Although not perhaps as relevant to more contemporary approaches to scoring, there is a huge amount of useful information on the different orchestral sections and is an extremely useful text for film scorers.

 

The Study of Orchestration (Third Edition)
The Study Of Orchestration (Third Edition)
Samuel Adler
Offers a wealth of material for music students to create a full orchestral score by choosing the appropriate instruments, instrumental combinations and instrumental techniques.

 

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New Compilation Featuring My Ambient Space Music

Ambient SkylineOne of my atmospheric ambient space music tracks is featured on a new compilation album from the Galileo Dreams record label called Ambient Skyline.

My 10 minute instrumental track Birth Of A Distant Star is part of a 14 track collection of atmospheric and relaxing music featuring artists such as Echo-ES, Piotr Janeczek, Hollan Holmes and others.

The full compilation album is available to buy as an instant mp3 download from the following music stores or you can also buy and license just my track Birth Of A Distant Star directly from me at thebluemask.com here.

Buy Ambient Skyline at iTunes
Buy Ambient Skyline at Beatport
Buy Ambient Skyline at Juno Download

Ambient Skyline is a music compilation for relaxation, meditation and dreams. Spatial soundscapes, dreamy choirs and distant voices. This relaxing and dreamy music will immerse you in a dream and carry you far away into a world of bliss, relaxation, meditation and sleep.”

Galileo Dreams

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Promo Video For Royalty Free Music Collection Vol.5 Cinematic Piano

Royalty Free Music For Documentary & Film Vol.5 (promo video) by Simon Wilkinson

Here’s the promo video for my latest royalty free music collection: Royalty Free Film & Documentary Music Vol. 5: Cinematic Piano. The music collection contains 13 tracks (48 minutes) of dark cinematic and atmospheric royalty free piano music ideal for film and documentary makers.

The music styles range from gentle and melancholy to dark, eerie and dramatic along with some moments of light and reflection. You can buy the music collection as an instant wav or mp3 download from the shop here:

Royalty-Free Film & Documentary Music Vol. 5: Cinematic Piano

Once you’ve purchased the album, you also receive a royalty free license which allows you to use the music in all your films, documentaries, monetised YouTube videos etc. with no further licensing fees (or ‘royalties’) to pay. So you get a lifetime license to keep using the music in unlimited videos.

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New Time Lapse Video Featuring My Royalty Free Music Atlantis

The Milky Way - Time Lapse Montage (HD)

Another talented photographer has created a new time lapse video featuring more of my music. This time Harley Grady has created a piece called The Milky Way which uses my track Atlantis as the soundtrack (Atlantis can be found on my Royalty Free Music Collection Volume 2).

Harley’s Milky Way video consists of a series of time lapse videos shot between October 2010 and July 2011. You can read details of the equipment he used in the Youtube video description here.

Check out Harley’s Youtube channel for lots more time lapse videos and you can also see still photos from his work on Flickr.

If you’d like to license any of my music for your own videos, films or documentaries, I have a library of music in a range of styles from dark atmospheric ambient soundscapes to dramatic orchestral action tracks and many more, all available from my music download shop here.