Incompetech http://incompetech.com/static/ For Royalty-Free music, and whiz-bang documents. en Copyright 2009 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:52:48 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Giant Freaking Kaleidoscope

So... what happens if you make a kaleidoscope with three foot wheels and giant mirrors?
You film the thing for an hour and sell it on Etsy!

Have you seen high quality kaleidoscope footage before? Not synthesized filtered electronic things that look like kaleidoscopes... but real glass kaleidoscopes? This is freaking cool stuff... I'd like to see an excerpt, but the screenshots are amazing.

]]> http://incompetech.com/static/2009/11/giant_freaking_kaleidoscope.html http://incompetech.com/static/2009/11/giant_freaking_kaleidoscope.html Sightings Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:52:48 -0600 New Piece for guitars Clear Air. Wide variety of applications. Try it. Is nice. :-)

And as a public service, I'd like to highlight some very odd piano pieces that have been up for a while, but will be useful in the ever-popular Silent Film genre...
The Mad Pianist

Check out. Again. For the 1st time.

]]> http://incompetech.com/static/2009/11/new_piece_for_guitars.html http://incompetech.com/static/2009/11/new_piece_for_guitars.html Music Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:40:51 -0600 Flickitty There have been quite a few iPhone apps that are using my music. What makes this game special?
Well, the game developer gave me 5 promo codes so you can play too!
Update: All the promo codes are gone.

Offer will run out when the promo codes run out. Cheers, all! :-)
Only available for users of the US App Store.

]]> http://incompetech.com/static/2009/11/flickitty.html http://incompetech.com/static/2009/11/flickitty.html Sightings Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:22:30 -0600 Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Someone (I can't find who) requested a dark version of "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy".

I couldn't find the originals, but I did redo it this week, and made 3 versions. There is still the version I did in 2006 (and wow, you can hear the difference 3 years makes!).

Click here for all the Sugar Plum variants

Cheers all!

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]]> http://incompetech.com/static/2009/11/what_me_twitter.html http://incompetech.com/static/2009/11/what_me_twitter.html Sightings Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:26:35 -0600 Impact. This is a new style of working for me. It is almost a "mini-album". This comes in at about 15 minutes total for 6 pieces.
If you are putting together a short film and use one of these, it is very easy to use any of them and maintain the same music character.

Impact
- Prelude
- Andante
- Moderato
- Intermezzo
- Allegretto
- Lento

]]> http://incompetech.com/static/2009/11/impact.html http://incompetech.com/static/2009/11/impact.html Music Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:52:10 -0600 Easier to use Graph Paper Maker If the inverting absolute size into "Lines per inch" notation was driving you batty, I have a new generator which works in a different way!
Try it here.

]]> http://incompetech.com/static/2009/11/easier_to_use_graph_paper_make.html http://incompetech.com/static/2009/11/easier_to_use_graph_paper_make.html Documents Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:47:20 -0600 Fast Film

Here's a great little 72 hour film made by a team from Curtin University in Perth Australia last week.

]]> http://incompetech.com/static/2009/11/fast_film.html http://incompetech.com/static/2009/11/fast_film.html Sightings Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:13:54 -0600 Small Worlds Experience the wonder of discovery with the great little game "Small Worlds" by David Shute.

The soundtrack used in the game is (of course) available here!

]]> http://incompetech.com/static/2009/10/small_worlds.html http://incompetech.com/static/2009/10/small_worlds.html Sightings Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:47:32 -0600 Nice Exchange 2009, Volume Two! The first offer is over and done, but a new one is just begun, and chances are, you're already registered!
This one works like the last one... but easier.


  1. Go to Rhe's Mad Men entry here
  2. Register for the site, and Vote!
  3. Say something nice in the comments if you've enjoyed the clip.
  4. Send an email to nice.music.exchange@gmail.com, and tell us who you are!
  5. You will receive a download link within a day or so (we'll try to keep up!).
  6. Tada!

What's in the download: 9 Brand new pieces by me, and 12 fantastic guitar tracks by Byran Teoh. Same licensing as everything on this site.

]]> http://incompetech.com/static/2009/10/nice_exchange_2009_volume_two.html http://incompetech.com/static/2009/10/nice_exchange_2009_volume_two.html Music Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:23:13 -0600 Graph Paper Addition Inverted Graph Paper Preview

Inverted Graph Paper


Inverted (white-on-colour) PDF Generator


]]> http://incompetech.com/static/2009/10/graph_paper_addition.html http://incompetech.com/static/2009/10/graph_paper_addition.html Documents Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:28:22 -0600 Big drums and soundscapes First off is a giant drone piece (at about 18 minutes) for all of you out there looking for long pads for placing under things.

Tranquility Base

Next up, deep texture:

Mind Scrape

And finally - a piece where I was playing around with a new sample set "Evolve" from Heavyocity. After a few hours of playing with the giant percussion - I ended up with a piece that sounded like a Blue Man Group performance piece. Way too much like them, actually - I was a little scared that I had inadvertently covered one of their pieces... I did some research, and checked with my local experts. It is not a Blue Man piece. (whew!)

Neo Western

Cheers, all!

]]> http://incompetech.com/static/2009/09/big_drums_and_soundscapes.html http://incompetech.com/static/2009/09/big_drums_and_soundscapes.html Music Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:00:44 -0600 Nice Exchange 2009!

25 new pieces of music in one zip file

(sorry, this offer is expired)

]]> http://incompetech.com/static/2009/09/nice_exchange_2009.html http://incompetech.com/static/2009/09/nice_exchange_2009.html Music Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:15:55 -0600 Former Incompetech Intern runs for City Council For Immediate Release:

Former Incompetech intern Waleed Ovase is running for Rockville City Council, Maryland, USA.
If you're among the 200-ish people from Rockville who visit my site, consider lending your support and voting for him this upcoming election!

Waleed's campaign for Rockville City Council.

If you can't vote for him, you can still donate to him from anywhere!
He's also available on the Facebooks and the Twitters.

If I can't have him working for me, might as well get him working for the people. :-)

]]> http://incompetech.com/static/2009/09/former_incompetech_intern_runs.html http://incompetech.com/static/2009/09/former_incompetech_intern_runs.html General Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:54:04 -0600 For Composers! I have had plain staff paper available on my site for a while, but if you're looking to up your creativity, check out FreeStaves.com.

In particular, I like the study scores and "featured" papers. Yay! Crumply!

Seriously cool stuff.

]]> http://incompetech.com/static/2009/08/for_composers.html http://incompetech.com/static/2009/08/for_composers.html Documents Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:17:50 -0600