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Completion of the creepy Shadowland Series!

Shadowlands 5 – Antechamber


Part five of seven. Airy, but not in the “I’m outdoors, and everything is great ‘airy'” way. More like the “the alien machine that sustains our life is slowly breaking down and poison is beginning to seep from its core” way. Whatever is happening… it isn’t fast, and it isn’t good.

Shadowlands 6 – The Pit


Part alien cacophony, part organic awfulness, part six of seven. If you set this piece as music you wake up to in the morning, you’re going to have a bad, bad day. There will be half remembered monsters from the times of not-asleep, not-awake… whose only jobs are to induce unexpected nausea inside government buildings.

Shadowlands 7 – Codex


Part seven of seven. A real mind bender. This one is all acoustic, and no artificial synths, so it has an organic feel. Not Certified Organic, just normal organic. So, that means it looks better, requires less fertilizer, has fewer pests and a higher yield.

You can download the full uncompressed files here!

Sick of Fake News? Try some Fake Music!

Last time on Twitch (follow me there!), I nabbed a bunch of computer generated MIDI files from the FakeMusicGenerator.com.

You can hear the final productions over at freePD.com!

Some toe-tappin’! … Just kidding. They’re all creepy.

Shadowlands 1 – Horizon


Part one of seven. Sort of an edgy-underwater feel… which isn’t common. You can feel the struggle just trying to get the sounds out. Imagine a small rhinoceros at a tea party. The image you have in your head has nothing to do with this piece; But it is quite amusing.

Shadowlands 2 – Bridge


Part two of seven. Very close clusters of tones bring the tension! And that tension wanes and waxes without notice. If you want your audience to be concerned, this is how you do it.

Shadowlands 3 – Machine


Part three of seven. Part pipe organ, part broken pipe organ, this isn’t just spooky, it is crazy spooky. It also has a musical theme, which not all of this horror moody stuff has. Consider it the jelly filling in your horror doughnut.

Shadowlands 4 – Breath


Part four of seven. This is the pizza cutter of this series, round and edgy. It has a little bit of melodic complexity, but mostly it just sits around being creepy. Should work well under dialog.

You can download the full uncompressed files here!

The average composer makes $4,800 per year

There is a lot of music out there. And the value of new works is going down. New pieces have an average commission of $1,800, and despite people looking for new commissions, there are less of them to be had.

According to the published results, the top 1% of composers are doing fine. Which makes sense, because the top 1% of everything is fine… because Zipf’s Law.

Interesting bit… the people who got the best commissions were not considered “established”. It could be that clients are looking for “new” sounds, or new composers can spend more time marketing themselves. (It could be half a hundred other things, but as a preliminary finding it is worth noting!)

The study doesn’t really apply to me or most people I know… we’re a part of a different kind of world of “Composing/Producing”. If you like a composer – please support them!

If you are a composer, and found an interesting way to make a living with your music, let me know. Most composers don’t have merch tables… maybe they should!

Check out the summary PDF here for more.

DistroKid

Setting up with a new Distributor, DistroKid. I’ve heard good things!

SUPERCALM!!!!11!!!111!1!!!!!

Ever Mindful


A different kind of relaxing piece with long but detailed harmonic complexity. I personally have a hard time with the drone-type of relaxing music. It doesn’t work for me. This one gives your mind something to think about… very very slowly.
You can download the full uncompressed files here!