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Royalty Free Music: The Complete Collection (30% Discount)

Royalty Free Music: The Complete Collection by Simon Wilkinson

My royalty free music collections are a series of atmospheric music albums which include a royalty free license allowing you to use the music in all your film and video productions with no further fees. I currently have 8 volumes which are available here as a complete collection with a 30% discount off the total (saving £96). Click below to hear short preview clips from all 8 collections (if you want to hear full length previews of every single track you can do so on each individual album page here):

This full bundled collection of all 8 Volumes includes a total of 111 tracks (over 6 and a half hours) of royalty free atmospheric and dramatic music and is available in either mp3 or wav format by selecting from the options above. Styles range from gentle cinematic piano (similar to composers like Thomas Newman, Philip Glass etc.) to dark, dramatic and organic evolving soundscapes, ethereal ambient space music, lush underscores and background music, twisted nightmarish horror music and drones, dark electronica and lively plucked orchestral pieces.

All the music is pre-licensed for unlimited lifetime use and ready to use in your films, documentaries, trailers, mobile apps, video games and monetised videos on sites like YouTube, Vimeo or Facebook with no further license fees or costs (full licensing info here).

Full price for the complete collection of all 8 volumes would normally be £319.92 but the total you pay with the 30% discount is just £223.92 – a total saving of £96. Or you can also buy each collection individually for just £39.99 each here.

Playlist: Royalty Free Music for documentary and film from composer Simon Wilkinson

The music collections are ideal for use in all of the following:

feature films
documentaries
student films
trailers & commercials
time lapse & art films
mobile games
thrillers & dramas
horror movies
science/nature/travel
human interest
sci-fi & crime

Full length previews of every individual track can be heard on each album page here:

http://www.thebluemask.com/music/all-tracks/royalty-free-music

If you have any questions about my music licensing, please either check the FAQs and Licensing Info or feel free to contact me here if you can’t find the information you need.

* Please note: The one thing I do not allow is for any of my royalty free music to be used to create new music tracks that you intend to distribute, whether for free or commercially. For example, sampling a section of a track (even 1 second) and using that sample in a new music track that you intend to create is strictly forbidden. This specifically includes any music you intend to submit to YouTube’s Content ID system.

Perpetual Dimensions

Perpetual Dimensions is an album of atmospheric ambient space music and evolving soundscapes from Simon Wilkinson. The album contains 7 tracks of long ethereal cinematic music with a total running time of 87 minutes. The album is sold for personal listening only but please contact me if you’d like to discuss licensing this music for your videos, films, games or apps.

A collection of ethereal panoramic musical soundscapes, slowly shifting deep drones and long shimmering ambient textures. The music is floating, expansive, spacious and non-obtrusive with no drums or percussion to distract your attention from the hypnotic moods.

Perpetual Dimensions by Simon Wilkinson (ambient space music album sampler)

Introspective voyages of sound with warm lows, glistening highs and evolving amorphous structures.

With most of the track lengths exceeding 10 minutes (with the longest at just under 17 minutes) the music is ideal for drifting, relaxation, meditation, and sleep.

As well as being an album designed for personal and immersive listening, it also works well as atmospheric background music for gaming, sci-fi reading/writing and any other creative work. With a focus on detailed and hypnotic sonic textures and with the use of spatial positioning, the album is best listened to on headphones for maximum enjoyment and a mesmerizing audio experience.

Reviews of Perpetual Dimensions:

“The wait has an end! After Cryosleep Dreams Simon finally did it again with a polished and absorbing masterpiece. Evolving and panoramic.”

In.Visible.Generator

“Perpetual Dimensions is a deep space journey of ultra pleasant soundscapes that could easily top the playlist of the Hearts Of Space radio show. Between this new release and the previous Cryosleep Dreams, Simon has secured a respectful place in this genre.”

Brian Bourassa

“These long (10-16 minutes) compositions of atmospheric ambient music will certainly take you to new dimensions of space and time.”

Yogabasics.com

The full album will be immediately available to download after purchase as a zip file containing all tracks as highest CD-quality 320kbps mp3s.

PLEASE NOTE: this album is sold for personal listening only and does not include a license to use the music in films or videos. If you’re interested in using any of the music from this album in a video or film please contact me to discuss licensing costs with as much info about your project as possible.

This mp3 album is also available from these websites and online stores (including Bandcamp). If you want to use the music in your video please contact me to discuss licensing which is only available here at thebluemask.com:

Posted on 22nd August 20156th November 2017 by Simon Wilkinson

All Music Licenses Now Cover Mobile Apps & Games

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To simplify my licensing terms for apps & games developers, all my music licenses have now been updated to cover use in mobile apps & games (e.g. for Android or iOS developers).

So if you need some music for your game or mobile app you can now choose from any of my music licenses with prices starting at £9.99 for non-commercial use, £29.99 for commercial use or £39.99 for one of my multiple-use royalty free music collections. All of these will cover use of my music in your game or app, depending on your app and what type of license you need.

To sum it up briefly, my non-royalty free individual tracks (one-off use) are £9.99 if the app is free or £29.99 if the app is a commercial (paid) release. Then I also have royalty free album collections where you can use the music repeatedly in unlimited games, apps and any other audio visual productions commercially for £39.99.

And to simplify other parts of my licensing terms, I’ve also removed all terms that previously limited you to only being able to sell up to 1,000 copies of physical units of your productions (e.g. DVDs or Blu Rays of your films). When you now buy a commercial license or a royalty free collection, there are no longer any limits to the amount of physical releases of your films and productions you can sell! Unlimited!

If you have any questions about my licensing terms or using the music, take a look at the FAQs or licensing info, or please feel free to get in touch if you have any other questions.

Cryosleep Dreams

Cryosleep Dreams is an album of atmospheric and cinematic ambient space music from Simon Wilkinson. With a total running time of 101 minutes, these 10 instrumental tracks of ethereal space soundscapes will take you on a dreamlike musical journey to the far side of your imagination.

From richly textured deep and dark evolving drones to long shimmering dreamscapes and glistening worlds of abstract sound, this is a highly atmospheric and dreamlike musical experience.

Ambient Space Music: Cryosleep Dreams (album sampler) by Simon Wilkinson

The music is floating, expansive, spacious and non-obtrusive with no drums or percussion to distract your attention from the hypnotic moods.

Deep bass drones flow beneath sparkling atmospheric textures. Cinematic background music that’s full of slow moving ethereal pads and airy washes of sound.

The album is ideal listening for encouraging relaxation, meditation, triggering ASMR, sleep and lucid dreaming, or as immersive background music for gaming, sci-fi reading/writing and any other creative work. Also great as mood-setting music for space engine simulators. Let the rich atmospheric musical spacescapes and celestial ambience wash over you and take your mind to a deep place of focused contemplation and dreamlike visual states.

The music on this album took around 6 months to create and the track titles add a sense of narrative in describing a journey through rich worlds of sound. There are abstract themes of space travel, the evolution of humanity through technology and the psychological effects of biological preservation on subconscious dreamstates.

The full album plus bonus 12 page PDF booklet of accompanying images and artwork will be immediately available to download after purchase as a zip file containing all tracks as highest CD-quality 320kbps mp3s. The beautiful cover image is by photographer and artist Sarah Fenwick at sjfbetty.deviantart.com where you can find lots more examples of Sarah’s atmospheric photography work.

Some reviews of Cryosleep Dreams:

“One of the best ambient albums in my collection -- Instant classic.”

Judd Stephens (Bandcamp review)

“I listen to this record every time I fly. Everywhere I go, I listen to this I just associate this sound with space and flight. It just captures the atmosphere of unknown that is yet to be seen.”

One Minute Video (Bandcamp recommendation)

“Sitting in your cockpit alone as the planet before you makes way for you to see directly the light of the sun in the sector…slowly descending between the rings of a mystical planet…thinking on your loved ones in a red glowing system far away…seeing the birth and the dramatic death of a star…looking in the eyes of your handsome first officer as he/she brings you your morning coffee…it’s all on this timeless masterpiece of an album. And so much more…”

Rindenberg (Bandcamp review)

“I just love flying and flying with this soundtrack…dreaming about future.”

Andreas Ullrich (Bandcamp review)

“I stumbled, upon Simon Wilkinson, after hearing ‘Cold Methuselah‘ on the Digitally Imported stream. The depth of the music intrigued me, and I sampled the entire album for effect. ‘Cryosleep Dreams‘ in short, is a bold soundtrack for those on a pilgrimage to astonishment! The CD cover-art depicts a hapless interstellar-traveler in suspended-animation, on an automated-journey, dreaming across all those long-years of deep space. Many feelings, are imparted through the sound that Simon conveys, and it’s easy to transpose yourself into the musical narrative he creates here. Everything is strange, beautiful, and intensely, epic all-at-once. ‘Binary Storm‘ was another exceptional track for me, and I immediately added-it to my ambient playlist. How I missed Simon Wilkinson, through my celestial navigations is still a mystery, that will remain unknown to me. Very few ambient artists attain this level of sophisticated production-level. But I must rank him up there with eminent superstars like: Jonn Serrie, Telomere, Thom Brennan, Dave Luxton, Meg Bowles, Chronotope Project, Jon Jenkins, and Csillagkod. This one, is a ‘must purchase’ for true fans of the space-music medium. Highly Recommended.”

eTripper (Amazon review)

“A wonderfully celestial and dreamy journey into unknown spaces (SpaceScapes). Simon allows us to drift away deep into his cosmic worlds with a delightful sense of awe. These works can lull you to sleep, calm your spirit, or fill a room with intense yet delicate beauty.”

Brian Bourassa

“A gorgeous deep album of electronic space music.”

Mike G (Ultima Thule radio)

“I really love space ambient with huge configurated textures and uplifting pads and drones. And this piece gives me food for the inner eye. A wonderfully easy and floating journey.”

In.Visible.Generator

“Cryosleep Dreams was incredibly mesmerizing, soothing and thought provoking to me. I work a stressful job and it was a perfect way to wind down my Friday night. I’ve searched for this type of music and it can be difficult to find. I suppose there is some stuff out there but nothing at the level of quality that Simon Wilkinson offers. It’s hard to describe music in words but there is just something about the artist’s style and the sounds he orchestrates with that I really like. I will buy the next album immediately!!”

Amazon Customer Review

“An absolutely beautiful album. A peaceful sonic world in every track. Highly recommended!”

Jesse Carmona

“Very rich and evolving soundscapes, mostly pad-based. I personally have never felt such a calming effect from his long-form ambient music.”

Joel Remiel

“Meditative, covert ambient. Barely present, meditative ambient; sounds to take with you into dreams.”

RCRD List

“Great sleep music for mystic dreams -- 5 Stars”

William Sikora Moonville (Google Play review)

“Being an avid fan of the genre for many years, I’ve been accustomed to some high and essential criteria to make this type of music stand out and shine the most. The ten tracks of slow transforming, drifting, peaceful and deep drone textures feature no rhythm or structure and are aptly composed.”

Sonic Immersion Review

This mp3 album (minus the PDF booklet) is also available from these websites and online stores (including Bandcamp). If you want to use the music in your video please contact me for a license which is only available here at thebluemask.com:

Merging The Infinite

Merging The Infinite is a new album of atmospheric ambient deep space music and textural soundscapes from composer and ambient musician Simon Wilkinson. The album includes 10 instrumental tracks (over 102 minutes) of ethereal space soundscapes and longform ambient music for deep listening.

Deep drifting drones are layered with lush atmospheric immersive spacescapes and subtly swirling synth lines to create richly textured and dark evolving worlds of sound.

Simon Wilkinson: Spindrift [Ambient space music]

The 10 tracks are longform and expansive with lots of sonic detail and character, best experienced on headphones for full immersive effect.

The music ranges from calm, ethereal and airy to dark and edgy tracks with an ominous feel. Some of the tracks have a subtle Berlin-school feel (a la Tangerine Dream) with fluttering stereo arpeggios and sequences. Influenced as always by dark atmospheric sci-fi from Blade Runner to 2001.

The album follows on stylistically from my previous ambient releases Cryosleep Dreams and Perpetual Dimensions and makes immersive background music for relaxation, meditation, sleep and lucid dreaming, gaming, sci-fi reading/writing and any other creative work.

Some reviews of Merging The Infinite:

“Merging the Infinite is a very calming drifting space ambient work that holds you in suspension in the cosmic universe. It may very well be Simon’s best of his three atmospheric cinematic space music and deep listening soundscapes.”

Brian Bourassa

“I’ve been listening to Merging the Infinite for a few weeks now. Complete bliss. I am lost for words.”

Steve Glossop

“Another superb album from Simon. Each track is different -- to suit the mood you’re in. My fav is Black Prism giving the artists on Cryo Chamber a run for the money.”

Tim Britton

This mp3 album is also available from these websites and online stores (including Bandcamp). If you want to use the music in your video please contact me for a license which is only available here at thebluemask.com:

Stateless

Stateless is the fourth album of atmospheric space music from ambient musician and composer Simon Wilkinson. With a total running time of nearly 80 minutes, the album is an ethereal collection of slowly shifting textures, evolving monolithic soundscapes and widescreen sci-fi panoramas designed for immersive deep listening.

From abstract but highly detailed soundscapes to low pulsing bass drones, Stateless is a musical journey through deep space worlds of sound.

Simon Wilkinson: Stateless [Ambient album sampler]

Music to immerse you in imaginary landscapes, ideal for focused deep listening or as background atmospheres for gaming, coding, reading, writing and other creative pursuits.

From calm and airy drones to dark and dramatic cinematic tracks, this is a collection of highly visual longform music with a sci-fi theme. An album of immersive music that can also aid meditation, relaxation and sleep.

I also created and designed the complete artwork for the album cover from my days in a previous life as a graphic designer…

Reviews of Stateless:

“I would love to give a poetic description about space and the self at this point, but I just cannot. The beauty and serene calmness of this album is simply beyond words. It resonates with the deepest part of your soul, the one which is still united with the galactic wholeness. Please try for yourself, and hear why Simon Wilkinson has earned his place at the pole position of space ambient. His music does not just drone along, but translates the unfathomable into sound. Ambient masterclass!”

Rindenberg (Bandcamp review)

“A stunning album, and all tracks are superb. For those that like relaxing with dreamy music this album is a must have. Favorite track: Descent In Amber.”

Surrealistic H. Sapiens (Bandcamp review)

“The master of space drone is back and what a beauty this one is! All 4 Albums = 1 Superb playlist, it’s a must have.”

Tim Britton (Bandcamp review)

“Another excellent cinematic/dark synth album from Simon. And I really like the album cover!”

Gideon Morley (Bandcamp review)

Posted on 21st May 201421st September 2015 by Simon Wilkinson

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.

Hegira

Hegira follows on from 2018’s ambient release Stateless as the fifth album of ambient space music from musician and composer Simon Wilkinson. The 3 longform tracks form an 80 minute collection of deep space drones and atmospheric soundscapes.

A Softer Indication [Space Ambient Music] by Simon Wilkinson

An immersive and absorbing journey of atmospheric drones and detailed worlds of sound.

Deep atmospheric soundscapes that work both for focused listening or simply as background atmospheres for creating a calm and meditative listening environment.

This 3 track album is an 80 minute journey into deep space atmospheric zones. Watch the video above for the track ‘A Softer Indication’.

Tracklisting: Parallel Ascent (33:08) | Hegira (The Crossing) (33:12) | A Softer Indication (14:33)

Posted on 4th October 20146th November 2017 by Simon Wilkinson

Using My Music Without Permission On YouTube

Copyright symbol I know people don’t always have the budget to spend much on licensing music for videos but unfortunately I can’t afford to give my music away for free.

I don’t feel I ask a huge amount but I do ask that you don’t use my music without paying. Unfortunately over the past few weeks I’ve once again found more and more people using my music in their YouTube videos without paying, asking or even looking at my basic terms. I can’t really make it any more clearer than I do but if in doubt you can always ask. I’m at the stage now where I feel I’ve made it clear enough here on my website and in my YouTube videos that if you want to use my music in your own videos, it requires payment (either for a single use license or for repeat use with my royalty free music collections).

So after I’ve double checked any instances where my music genuinely hasn’t been licensed legally (and I always make sure it’s a genuine situation), I simply submit a copyright complaint to YouTube and move on. I don’t have the time or karmic/physical energy to manually negotiate every single unauthorised use (there’s hundreds). In both recent instances, YouTube chose to simply terminate the accounts of the uploaders which left them with their accounts closed and all their videos, comments and play-counts (some in the millions) gone. It’s unfortunate if you’ve lost your work but that’s how the process goes and when you’re using other people’s work without permission, you should be aware of the consequences.

In both cases the uploaders (who admitted not licensing my music or even asking permission) emailed me afterwards and basically said, “Thanks to you my account is now closed and I can no longer earn from my videos”. As much as I’d like to be sympathetic, I’m tired of being blamed when I’m not the one doing anything wrong. It’s not my fault if you only saw the word “free” in “royalty free” and just assumed you could go ahead and use my music without even acknowledging a few basic terms that I always explain in plain English; that’s like putting your fingers in your ears and hearing only what you want to hear.

In both these cases, the uploaders had completely ignored my terms about paying for licensing and just ripped the music from my promo videos – if that’s the only way you’re able to get hold of the music files, it should probably give you some idea that I haven’t made the music publicly and freely available for a reason and you should check whether you’re allowed to do that (hint: you’re not).

I’ve explained it before, but “Royalty Free Music” doesn’t mean “no charge”, in the same way that “Fat Free Yoghurt” obviously can’t be eaten in the store without paying for it. Just send me a quick email if you’re unsure about anything and I’ll happily clarify it (unless it’s about yoghurt). If you rely on YouTube revenue for your income and you’re earning money using other people’s content, you really need to be aware of the basic conditions and whether your videos are even eligible for revenue, so please don’t complain to me if I file a copyright dispute for use without permission.

I’m not out to be overly protective or make anyone’s life difficult. But when I spend hours, days and weeks writing music, learning production techniques, recording performances, building complex layers of sound, mixing and mastering, (not to mention all the money I spend on buying instruments, hardware, software, sequencers, sample libraries, artwork, web hosting etc.) I’m not earning a penny. It’s only when the music is finished and put out there that I might be lucky enough to find a few genuine customers who like the music enough to pay so that I can even start to recoup all the time, money and effort that’s gone into creating these tracks.

If you’re not willing to pay for the work I’ve created, perhaps you’d like to spend a few years learning the techniques and paying for the hardware and software and then try creating your own music? Sorry for the rant – to those who do genuinely buy and license my music and are willing to pay for music resources that they can use to create their own videos, documentaries and other works, my sincere thanks and appreciation. To those who don’t: you get what you (don’t) pay for…

Royalty Free Music For Film & Documentary Vol. 1: Piano & Atmospheric Beds

Volume 1 of my royalty free music contains 15 individual tracks (over 45 minutes in total) of dark, dramatic and atmospheric solo piano music and ambient soundscapes for use in your documentaries, films, trailers and YouTube videos.

Specially composed as atmospheric background music for filmmakers by composer Simon Wilkinson, the music focuses on dramatic piano tracks and darkly textured atmospheres. You can listen to full previews of all the tracks below or watch the promo video further down.

My royalty free music collections are bought as a one-time payment that lets you keep using the music in all your videos and films without needing to pay recurring license fees (or ‘royalties’) each time you want to release a new film or project using the music. Read more about licensing info here.

Royalty Free Music for Documentary & Film Vol.1

From gentle sparse piano music similar to Erik Satie or Thomas Newman (e.g. American Beauty) to dark evolving atmospheric ambient soundscapes and hypnotising background atmospheres.

Cinematic music that’s ideal for dramas, thrillers, promotional films, video games, student films, documentaries or any visuals that require a dark, serious, suspenseful or melancholic atmosphere.

Whether it’s for worldwide TV broadcast, movies, documentaries, personal websites, mobile and video games, YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook etc. The royalty free license gives you lifetime rights to use the music in all your videos and productions with nothing further to pay. Click here for full license details or feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

The ideal audio resource to add to all documentary and filmmakers’ libraries for when you’re looking for the right atmospheric or dramatic music cue to complete your scene.

The album contains the 15 full tracks which will be automatically available to download after purchase. You can select from mp3 or wav from the dropdown option above and if you’re buying from a country outside of the UK, PayPal will automatically convert the amount from your currency to British Pounds so you can buy from anywhere in the world.