Hi, and welcome to the Open Licensed Music Podcast, the show where we highlight music from artists who let you share their music. I'm Ralph Wacksworth, and today's episode is featuring music from The Funny Music Project.
Eatin' Paste (2:28)
Les's Morgue (squeaky clean edit) (2:28)
Operation: Desert Storm (squeaky clean edit) (3:59)
Dragon With ADHD (0:12)
That was Eatin' Paste by TV's Kyle, slightly edited versions of Les's Morgue by Steve Goodie and Operation: Desert Storm by Tom Smith, and finishing up was Dragon With ADHD by Rhubarb. All four of them are available from The Funny Music Project at thefump.com and are licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.
This episode is about music from The Funny Music Project. Why? Because I've subscribed to their podcast of songs for years now and it occurred to me the other day that, oh yeah, it's all open-licensed! And on top of it, it's awesome music. They have a combination of parodies and original music, the latter of which we'll be listening to today, though the former is usually just as hilarious. Their website is at thefump.com, and they have a few different ways you can get their music. You can subscribe to their song podcast (and the Sideshow podcast, which is also very good), buy individual songs, donate, sign up for a subscription where you can listen to and download any song in their archive, sign up for a better subscription where you also get CDs sent to you...they give you lots of ways to get their music. The neat thing is their licensing policy at the bottom of their site, which is why I'm able to build this podcast - it's all open-licensed.
And just so you know, I have no affiliation with them. I just think they're awesome.
So, anyway, let's listen to some more of their music.
I Have a Tuba (squeaky clean edit) (4:04)
Multi-Tasking (2:24)
There's a Llama Inside My Fridge (2:53)
Not Dead (edited) (3:02)
That was I Have a Tuba by Kobi LaCroix, Multi-Tasking by Drew Jacobs, There's a Llama Inside My Fridge by TV's Kyle, and finishing up was a slightly edited version of Not Dead by Tony Goldmark. All four of them are available from The Funny Music Project at thefump.com and are licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.
A quick reminder: how long has it been since you've backed up your computer? I run backups of my stuff to other computers and to drives which I make sure are disconnected from power in case of power surges. Having an off-site backup in case of a major disaster like a fire, flood, or tornado is a good idea as well. Fortunately I haven't had any major problems recently where I've needed my backups, but I read an article recently about the lengths someone had to go to to get their data back, and although it was interesting, it's a little saddenning to think that their backup strategy (or rather lack of one) failed so badly. So remember: back up your files.
Enough of serious. Let's get back to silly:
The Happy Song (4:32)
307 Ale (squeaky clean edit) (3:35)
Grumbledy (2:30)
A Song For Worm Quartet To Sing With TV's Kyle (2:17)
That was The Happy Song by Fox Amoore and Rhubarb, a slightly edited version of 307 Ale by Tom Smith, Grumbledy by TV's Kyle which he decided to do because we was sick at the time, and finishing up was A Song For Worm Quartet To Sing With TV's Kyle by Worm Quartet and featuring TV's Kyle. All four of them are available from The Funny Music Project at thefump.com and are licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.
There are a number of songs from The Funny Music Project like that last one that kind of poke fun at themselves. Kyle, Are You Ian? and was a very good one, and then Devo Spice and Worm Quartet parodied it as Devo, Are You Shoebox? which was hilarious. How To Speak ShoEboX was another of my favorites, but I like to try to keep this podcast clean enough for work environments and it has a few swear words in it where it would lose part of its comedic value if I edited them out. So I'm not playing it here. But it is on The Funny Music Project's website if you want to check it out, and it is very worth listening to if you get a chance.
Another thing to check out this week: The Humble Music Bundle from the same people as the Humble Indie Bundle for games. They have five albums for purchase for a price of your choosing. If you pay more than the average price, you get a sixth album. And you can choose how much of your payment goes to different places, with two of the choices being charities. The downloads are available as either MP3 or FLAC, and there's some awesome music in there. It's only up for a few more days at this point, so check it out today at humblebundle.com. And, as usual, I have no affiliation with them - it's just a cool concept with good music.
Today's app-of-the-day is FreeCAD. FreeCAD is a very cool parametric CAD program that allows you to construct parts and assemblies in 3D. Basically, you draw your blueprints for various things in 2D using the geometry and constraint tools it has, then you take those and extrude or lathe them into a 3D part. After you turn it into a 3D part, you can then go back and change your drawing and the model will recalculate. It's pretty cool, and with the latest few versions they've really come a long way toward making it usable and stable. It's available for Linux, I think BSD, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. Download it today at
free-cad.sourceforge.net
Now for a short noncommercial break for a couple of our nonsponsors followed by more music.
ccMixter Rap (with Music) (1:54)
Renaissance Fair (1:35)
Turtle Riding a Dog (3:26)
The Twelve Signs Of Swine Flu (2:03)
Pirate Song (2:17)
We Are the Vikings (3:27)
That was ccMixter Rap (with Music) by Togora, available from ccMixter and licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license. After that was Renaissance Fair by Morning Sidekick, Turtle Riding a Dog by TV's Kyle, The Twelve Signs Of Swine Flu by Steve Goodie, Pirate Song by Jonah Knight, and finishing up was We Are the Vikings by Kobi LaCroix. The five of them are available from The Funny Music Project at thefump.com and are licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.
So, that's all for today. Remember - piracy of commercial music only proves your dependence on that model and justifies further censorship and restriction. So don't pirate it - replace it with something better. Listen to open licensed music, donate to the artists behind it, go to concerts, and buy music from artists whose record labels don't see you as their enemies. Support artists where your support actually counts.
This episode was made using Xubuntu Linux, Gentoo Linux, Audacity, Audacious for organizing playlists, and Leafpad for notes, and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. Feel free to give it to your friends, or if you didn't like it, your enemies. Links to the songs in this podcast are available on the website. Listen in next time for various styles of music with a bit of a western feel. See 'ya!
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Monday, July 30, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012
Episode 10: Japanese
Hi, and welcome to the Open Licensed Music Podcast, the show where we highlight music from artists who let you share their music. I'm Ralph Wacksworth, and today's episode is featuring music in Japanese. And to preface this for any of you who speak Japanese, this episode does have vocals, and my Japanese is not good enough to know what all of them say. So consider yourself warned if you're listening in an environment where vocals are offensive.
MICROCOSMOS (6:00)
Sunday Morning (3:29)
REDSHiFT ft. Megurine Luka - Lucid Dream (4:03)
#006 Nanairo Kimiiro Atashiiro TechnoDanceVersion featVOCALOID / vocal: VOCALOID (4:11)
That was MICROCOSMOS by NoMode and Sunday Morning by Naivepop or petitfool, which are both available from Jamendo and are licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. After that was REDSHiFT ft. Megurine Luka - Lucid Dream by REDHiFT Vocaloid Works, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution license. Finishing up was #006 Nanairo Kimiiro Atashiiro TechnoDanceVersion featVOCALOID / vocal: VOCALOID by Songs to Save You. That's got to be about the longest named song I've played on here. Anyway, it's available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.
I love the sound of the Japanese language. The grammatical structure has got to be about the coolest I've seen in any human language I've studied. I've only really studied it enough that I can catch a few words here and there but not well enough to fully grasp the meanings of what they're singing. I also very much like the synthetic quality of music sung by a voice synthesizer, which works out well, since the latter often appears in the category of the former. I've run across a bit of voice synth music in other languages, but by and large it's mostly in Japanese.
But, my love for the language extends just as much to humans' use of it, so without further ado, let's continue with more music.
kibako (4:23)
I ♥ JAPAN！ウクレレで弾き語ってみた…【遠い世界に】 (1:09)
Perfect Daydream (Japanese Version) (1:53)
That was kibako by higashi-tonden-street FACTORY, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. After that was I ♥ JAPAN！ウクレレで弾き語ってみた…【遠い世界に】 by hiikotori, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution license. Finishing up was Perfect Daydream (Japanese Version) by Oblivious, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.
A side note if you're looking for open licensed music in Japanese - it's hard. As often happens, I had to drop a bunch of my normal Japanese music for license incompatibilities to the point where I had about a half hour of music, so as usual I went looking for more music to fill out the playlist. There seemed to be very little music out there that was in Japanese. Many of the ones with Japanese titles were either in English or instrumental, which I'm not opposed to but would be filed into another episode. I was also very unpleasantly surprised by how many of the songs I found were labelled as covers, and since they're most likely based on some commercial music I don't know, I can't very well include them in this podcast. But yet they were still labelled as open licensed. Made things quite difficult and time-consuming, since I had to go research whether or not songs *were* in fact based on something else and filter them out.
So, with that, let's continue with more music:
Vacation (5:12)
SLKP by Grünemusik (3:25)
Round & Round, Merry-Go-Round of Hate (reprise, a lullaby) by To-Den (4:14)
That was Vacation by NoMode, SLKP by Grünemusik by Grünemusik, and Round & Round, Merry-Go-Round of Hate (reprise, a lullaby) by To-Den by Grünemusik. All three of them are available from Jamendo and are licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.
Today's app-of-the-day is Mozilla Thunderbird, an e-mail client program. It has functionality for checking, organizing, and sending e-mail from multiple providers and has a ton of plugins available which allow you to add even more functionality to it. One plugin in particular I like is called Lightning, which adds calendar
functionality. It's very easy to use, easy to install, and is free and open source. It's available for Linux, OS/2, OpenSolaris and OpenIndiana, BSD, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. Download it today from mozilla.org/thunderbird
Now for a short noncommercial break from one of our nonsponsors followed by more music.
The FuMP
ハッピィケンキュウジョ (5:16)
[Vocaloid3 Megpoid]Hikari (1:02)
That was a slightly edited version of Podcast Promo by The FuMP, which is available from thefump.com and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. After that was ハッピィケンキュウジョ by MenT@i, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. Finishing up was [Vocaloid3 Megpoid]Hikari by Chino Yoshio, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution license.
So, that's all for today. Remember - piracy of commercial music only proves your dependence on that model and justifies further censorship and restriction. So don't pirate it - replace it with something better. Listen to open licensed music, donate to the artists behind it, go to concerts, and buy music from artists whose record labels don't see you as their enemies. Support artists where your support actually counts.
This episode was made using Xubuntu Linux, Gentoo Linux, Audacity, Audacious for organizing playlists, and Leafpad for notes, and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. Feel free to give it to your friends, or if you didn't like it, your enemies. Links to the songs in this podcast are available on the website. Listen in next time for some music from The Funny Music Project! See 'ya!
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MICROCOSMOS (6:00)
Sunday Morning (3:29)
REDSHiFT ft. Megurine Luka - Lucid Dream (4:03)
#006 Nanairo Kimiiro Atashiiro TechnoDanceVersion featVOCALOID / vocal: VOCALOID (4:11)
That was MICROCOSMOS by NoMode and Sunday Morning by Naivepop or petitfool, which are both available from Jamendo and are licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. After that was REDSHiFT ft. Megurine Luka - Lucid Dream by REDHiFT Vocaloid Works, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution license. Finishing up was #006 Nanairo Kimiiro Atashiiro TechnoDanceVersion featVOCALOID / vocal: VOCALOID by Songs to Save You. That's got to be about the longest named song I've played on here. Anyway, it's available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.
I love the sound of the Japanese language. The grammatical structure has got to be about the coolest I've seen in any human language I've studied. I've only really studied it enough that I can catch a few words here and there but not well enough to fully grasp the meanings of what they're singing. I also very much like the synthetic quality of music sung by a voice synthesizer, which works out well, since the latter often appears in the category of the former. I've run across a bit of voice synth music in other languages, but by and large it's mostly in Japanese.
But, my love for the language extends just as much to humans' use of it, so without further ado, let's continue with more music.
kibako (4:23)
I ♥ JAPAN！ウクレレで弾き語ってみた…【遠い世界に】 (1:09)
Perfect Daydream (Japanese Version) (1:53)
That was kibako by higashi-tonden-street FACTORY, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. After that was I ♥ JAPAN！ウクレレで弾き語ってみた…【遠い世界に】 by hiikotori, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution license. Finishing up was Perfect Daydream (Japanese Version) by Oblivious, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.
A side note if you're looking for open licensed music in Japanese - it's hard. As often happens, I had to drop a bunch of my normal Japanese music for license incompatibilities to the point where I had about a half hour of music, so as usual I went looking for more music to fill out the playlist. There seemed to be very little music out there that was in Japanese. Many of the ones with Japanese titles were either in English or instrumental, which I'm not opposed to but would be filed into another episode. I was also very unpleasantly surprised by how many of the songs I found were labelled as covers, and since they're most likely based on some commercial music I don't know, I can't very well include them in this podcast. But yet they were still labelled as open licensed. Made things quite difficult and time-consuming, since I had to go research whether or not songs *were* in fact based on something else and filter them out.
So, with that, let's continue with more music:
Vacation (5:12)
SLKP by Grünemusik (3:25)
Round & Round, Merry-Go-Round of Hate (reprise, a lullaby) by To-Den (4:14)
That was Vacation by NoMode, SLKP by Grünemusik by Grünemusik, and Round & Round, Merry-Go-Round of Hate (reprise, a lullaby) by To-Den by Grünemusik. All three of them are available from Jamendo and are licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.
Today's app-of-the-day is Mozilla Thunderbird, an e-mail client program. It has functionality for checking, organizing, and sending e-mail from multiple providers and has a ton of plugins available which allow you to add even more functionality to it. One plugin in particular I like is called Lightning, which adds calendar
functionality. It's very easy to use, easy to install, and is free and open source. It's available for Linux, OS/2, OpenSolaris and OpenIndiana, BSD, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. Download it today from mozilla.org/thunderbird
Now for a short noncommercial break from one of our nonsponsors followed by more music.
The FuMP
ハッピィケンキュウジョ (5:16)
[Vocaloid3 Megpoid]Hikari (1:02)
That was a slightly edited version of Podcast Promo by The FuMP, which is available from thefump.com and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. After that was ハッピィケンキュウジョ by MenT@i, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. Finishing up was [Vocaloid3 Megpoid]Hikari by Chino Yoshio, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution license.
So, that's all for today. Remember - piracy of commercial music only proves your dependence on that model and justifies further censorship and restriction. So don't pirate it - replace it with something better. Listen to open licensed music, donate to the artists behind it, go to concerts, and buy music from artists whose record labels don't see you as their enemies. Support artists where your support actually counts.
This episode was made using Xubuntu Linux, Gentoo Linux, Audacity, Audacious for organizing playlists, and Leafpad for notes, and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. Feel free to give it to your friends, or if you didn't like it, your enemies. Links to the songs in this podcast are available on the website. Listen in next time for some music from The Funny Music Project! See 'ya!
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Monday, July 16, 2012
Episode 9: Cartoon Music
Hi, and welcome to the Open Licensed Music Podcast, the show where we highlight music from artists who let you share their music. I'm Ralph Wacksworth, and today's episode is featuring cartoon music.
Washington Post (2:39)
Flight Of The Bumblebee (1:19)
Hungarian Dance No. 5 (0:45)
Overture to The Marriage of Figaro (4:42)
That was Washington Post by John Phillip Sousa and performed by the the United States Marine Band. It's available from Wikipedia or from the US Marine Band's website at marineband.usmc.mil. After that was Flight of the Bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Johannes Brahms, both performed by the US Army Band and available from musopen.org. Finishing up was Overture to The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and performed by the NTNU Chamber Philharmonic. It's available from Wikipedia by permission from the orchestra. All four of them are licensed as Public Domain.
Just like the last Cartoon Music episode, each of the artists in this episode have graciously dropped just about any kind of restriction from this music and released their recordings to the public domain. I still want to make sure they're credited - I feel they deserve it even more for not forcing people to do so. For many years now the public domain has not grown like it used to due to the ways the copyright laws changed near the end of the 20th century, so it's nice to see some new stuff entering it. It's a pretty awesome thing for them to do. I really think that a lot of the reason so much of this is so recognizable is that, since the original
music for these is now public domain, they're used more, and I'm very much looking forward to the future where some of the currently-copyrighted music's copyrights will expire so it'll be reusable the same way.
This is a pretty good long episode, so let's listen to some more music.
Overture to William Tell (11:01)
Night on Bald Mountain (12:13)
That was Overture to William Tell by Gioacchino Rossini and performed by the United States Marine Band. Finishing up was Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky and performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra. Both of them are available from musopen.org and are licensed as Public Domain.
Today's app-of-the-day is Synergy. Synergy is a neat little system to let you use one keyboard and mouse to run multiple computers. So, for example, in my normal computer setup I have my desktop running Xubuntu Linux with its two monitors set up with the keyboard and mouse, and I have Synergy set up on my Gentoo Linux laptop so the cursor and keyboard smoothly move right over to it without having to plug in or unplug anything. Basically when my mouse hits the edge of the desktop's screen, it pops over onto the laptop's. And the great thing is that the computers involved don't have to run the same operating system. They have downloads for Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and iOS for iPad and iPhone devices, though I have little doubt there's a port available for BSD, OpenIndiana, etc. It's available from synergy-foss.org and is very simple to set up.
Now for a short noncommercial break from one of our non-sponsors.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Grand Fantasie from Die Walkure (14:59)
Overture to the Light Cavalry (6:59)
That was Grand Fantasy from Die Walkure by Richard Wagner and performed by the United States Marine Band. It's available from musopen.org. Finishing up was Overture to the Light Cavalry by Franz von Suppé and also performed by the United States Marine Band. It's available from Wikipedia. Both are licensed as Public Domain.
So, that's all for today. I still have more cartoon music lined up for another episode. Remember - piracy of commercial music only proves your dependence on that model and justifies further censorship and restriction. So don't pirate it - replace it with something better.
This episode was made using Xubuntu Linux, Gentoo Linux, Audacity, Audacious for organizing playlists, and Leafpad for notes, and is licensed under the Creative Commons Public Domain license, thanks to all of the music being available as Public Domain from musopen.org and Wikipedia. I would much rather distribute these episodes under more permissive licenses and will be doing so when I can. At any rate, feel free to give it to your friends, or if you didn't like it, your enemies. Links to the songs in this podcast are available on the website. Listen in next time for some music in Japanese! See 'ya!
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Monday, July 9, 2012
Episode 8: Electronic
Hi, and welcome to the Open Licensed Music Podcast, the show where we highlight music from artists who let you share their music. I'm Ralph Wacksworth, and today's episode is featuring electronic music.
dreamer (3:51)
Cosmic Cafe (3:24)
Arp-Ego 1 (8:16)
That was dreamer by Sekula Wieslaw, Cosmic Cafe by Fortadelis, and Arp-Ego 1 by Loomeer, which are available from Jamendo and are licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.
Again, this week's episode is very long, so in the interest of brevity, let's get right back to music.
Vocoda Evening (8:17)
Galaxie (4:10)
New Trance (inc stems) (ft. mind map that) (5:56) (edited)
That was Vocoda Evening by Loomeer, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. After that was Galaxie by SIRIUS, which is also available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution license. Finishing up was an instrumental-edited version of New Trance (inc stems) (ft. mind map that) by stellarartwars, which is available from ccMixter and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license.
There are a couple other songs I've got that feature mind map that (also known as Kara Square), one of which in particular probably is one of my most played songs in the last few months, but vocals just don't quite fit this episode. That song will certainly feature in a future episode, though, once I find a coherent category it
fits into. Right now it's kind of in my Misc. Cool Stuff, Head Sticker, and ccMixter lists. May even just do an episode with some of those in the future since a lot of the stuff that's on them is unique enough to kind of fall into a category of its own.
So, with that, back to electronic music.
Aksjomat przemijania (Axiom of going by) (9:05)
Another Moment Beside Reality (7:59)
The lovers (6:13) (appears to have since been removed from Jamendo - also available from archive.org)
That was Aksjomat przemijania (Axiom of going by) by Dieter Werner, followed by Another Moment Beside Reality by EXperience... and The lovers by Wojciech Wszelaki. All three of them are available from Jamendo and are licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.
Today's app-of-the-day is Pidgin, a multiprotocol chat client. By my count, it supports at least 17 different protocols and/or providers, including AIM, Google Talk, IRC, and XMPP. It's a well-built program, there are all kinds of plugins available for it, and it runs on Linux, BSD, AmigaOS, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. Download it today at pidgin.im
Now for a short noncommercial break from one of our nonsponsors.
Librivox
Looking Forward (Radio edit) (6:44)
synthetic (3:55)
Smoke & Lights (8:30)
That was Looking Forward (Radio edit) by ED3-STUDIO and synthetic by _voice, both of which are available from Jamendo and are licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. Finishing up was Smoke & Lights by boomaga, which is available from ccMixter and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license.
So, that's all for today. Remember - piracy of commercial music only proves your dependence on that model and justifies further censorship and restriction. So don't pirate it - replace it with something better. Listen to open licensed music, donate to the artists behind it, go to concerts, and buy music from artists whose record labels don't see you as their enemies. Support artists where your support actually counts.
This episode was made using Xubuntu Linux, Gentoo Linux, Audacity, Audacious for organizing playlists, and Leafpad for notes, and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. Feel free to give it to your friends, or if you didn't like it, your enemies. Links to the songs in this podcast are available on the website. Listen in next time for some more cartoon music! See 'ya!
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Monday, July 2, 2012
Episode 7: Mystery and Spy Music
Hi, and welcome to the Open Licensed Music Podcast, the show where we highlight music from artists who let you share their music. I'm Ralph Wacksworth, and today's episode is featuring mystery and spy music.
Sneaky Snitch (2:16)
Gloomy (1:45)
The Snow Queen (3:40)
That was Sneaky Snitch by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license. After that was Gloomy by J.C.Vogt, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. Finishing up was The Snow Queen by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license.
This is a long episode, so I'm going to just continue on with some more music.
Déjà tout bu (1:51)
Inspector Thenard (1:49)
Intro (0:29)
Constancy Part Two (1:04)
Conspirando (0:25)
Matar al Detective (0:27)
That was Déjà tout bu by Löhstana David, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution license. After that was Inspector Thenard by Butterfly Tea, and Intro by Balkan Balagan, which are both available from Jamendo and are licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. Following that was Constancy Part Two by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license. Finishing up were Conspirando and Matar al Detective, both by Pedro Amoros, which are available from Jamendo and are licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.
I know a good portion of my current listeners are from my local Linux Users' Group. I don't have a whole lot of listeners right now. But in case you've stumbled across this podcast from outside of me telling you about it, have you looked into joining any specialized local groups? We have quite a number of them in my town, to the point that one of our Linux group members put together a website to aggregate a bunch of the similar groups' schedules together into one nice handy little calendar. There are almost certainly some groups in your area for things you're interested in. We even discovered the other day that there's a regularly meeting FoxPro group in town. So get out there and socialize - there's lots of cool stuff to learn.
And now for you spies and just generally cool detectives, here's some more music.
03-Hassan's Dream (5:41)
Peninsule (11:24)
That was 03-Hassan's Dream by Luc Bartoli and Peninsule by AdHoc, which are both available from Jamendo and are licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.
Now, how about some actual real-life spy stuff?
Numbers Station--6949 kHz
That was a chunk of a track called Numbers Station--6949 kHz by SWLing.com, which is available from archive.org and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. It's a recording of something called a "numbers station", which are a type of shortwave radio station that started popping up around the world sometime in the early to mid 1900's. At least a few of them have definitely been used by actual spies, so what you're hearing is probably an encoded message being transmitted to an undercover spy somewhere in the world. Pretty cool if you ask me.
So, let's continue with some more music.
Umbrella Pants (1:10)
Detective entra a la casa (1:49)
Sneaky Adventure (1:13)
A Dwarf's Tale (4:31)
Our Story Begins (1:24)
That was Umbrella Pants by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license. Then we had Detective entra a la casa by Pedro Amoros, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. After that was Sneaky Adventure by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license. Then we had A Dwarf's Tale by Marc Teichert, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license. And finishing up was Our Story Begins by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license.
Today's app-of-the-day is Dia, a very nice little diagram drawing and editing program. Basically, you draw in shapes and connect them with lines or arrows. It works great for flowcharts and wiring diagrams. And if you want to change something, you can just drag the shape and the lines connecting it to the other shapes move right along with it. It's available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. Download it today at http://live.gnome.org/Dia (with a capital D).
Now for a short noncommercial break from one of our nonsponsors followed by more music. And although I mention Librivox books on here quite a bit because of the fact that they have audio versions of books, many of the books they record come from a website called Project Gutenberg. If you have an ebook reader, you really need to go check out their site right away. They have thousands of books and periodicals, almost all of which are in the public domain. And to go a bit further, a lot of the material on Project Gutenberg comes from a site called Distributed Proofreaders. They take scanned books and convert them from image formats to text, and it's set up so you can very easily hop on there and help them out by proofreading and correcting their progress. The whole system is pretty cool, but these audio books are the result of many hours of volunteer time, and if you get a chance, I'm sure any of the projects in the chain would be happy to have another volunteer to help out.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Inspector Thenard Returns (0:54)
Investigations (1:33)
Infiltration-Spy Edit (5:17)
A Moment Of Twilight (1:05)
A por las Armas (0:37)
Remanence Halo (4:50)
Vals de los Sonámbulos (1:45)
That was Inspector Thenard Returns by Butterfly Tea, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. Then we had Investigations by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license. After that was Infiltration-Spy Edit by DJ Psyonik, which is available from ccMixter and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license. Next up was A Moment of Twilight by Marc Teichert, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license. The fifth song in the set was A por las Armas by Pedro Amoros, which is available from Jamendo under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. Next up was Remamnence Halo by Julien Boulier, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. And finishing up was Vals de los Sonámbulos by Andrés P. Estrada, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.
So, that's all for today. Remember - piracy of commercial music only proves your dependence on that model and justifies further censorship and restriction. So don't pirate it - replace it with something better. Listen to open licensed music, donate to the artists behind it, go to concerts, and buy music from artists whose record labels don't see you as their enemies. Support artists where your support actually counts.
This episode was made using Xubuntu Linux, Gentoo Linux, Audacity, Audacious for organizing playlists, and Leafpad for notes, and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. Feel free to give it to your friends, or if you didn't like it, your enemies. Links to the songs in this podcast are available on the website. Listen in next time for some more electronic music! See 'ya!
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Monday, June 25, 2012
Episode 6: Gypsy Jazz
Hi, and welcome to the Open Licensed Music Podcast, the show where we highlight music from artists who let you share their music. I'm Ralph Wacksworth, and today's episode is featuring gypsy jazz and a few other songs I think go really well with it.
Gypsy Queen (4:23)
Avalon (2:10)
Demain je change dchangee vie (4:06)
That was a shortened version of Gypsy Queen by Avi Rosenfeld, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. After that was a slightly edited version of Avalon by pantoum, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license. Finishing up was Demain je change de vie by Löhstana David, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution license.
You may have noticed as you've listened to this podcast that I usually refer to music in "categories" rather than "genres". That's because I don't always listen to them by any recognized genre per se. I like to listen to them by what I think fits together well. Take, for example, this next track. It's probably not exactly classifiable as gypsy jazz, but to me it has about the same feel, so it's in the same playlist as the gypsy jazz stuff. I don't like to dilute the term "genre" with my non-deterministic categorization, therefor I call them "categories" unless it's a truly strict enough categorization for them all to fit in one normal "genre". So, with that quirk aside, let's listen to some gypsy jazz and similar.
Mad Squirrel March (4:25)
La Minor Improv (3:21)
Bearded_Gypsy_Band__Bearded_Gypsy_Band (4:25)
Madame Haricots Takes Afternoon Tea (1:10)
That was Mad Squirrel March by ARTSomerville. ARTSomerville seems to record a bunch of bands, and the two this week are from Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band at The Nave. From what I hear, Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band is quite a hoot to listen to live and with all of them together are very loud in a "Boy, that's kind of cool. I can still hear them through multiple walls." kind of way. Anyway, after that was La Minor Improv by Balkan Balagan and Bearded_Gypsy_Band__Bearded_Gypsy_Band by Kiah. All three of them are available from Jamendo and are licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. Finishing up was Madame Haricots Takes Afternoon Tea by P4-810 and Dixie McBass, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license.
SoundCloud, by the way, is awesome. More really good music to be found there, and they make it incredibly easy to filter by license so I don't run into so many license incompatibility problems when I put together an episode. A bunch of this week's music is from there. And there's enough of it, I'm going to continue, because otherwise this episode's going to get quite long.
Bella Ciao (5:19)
Troublant Bolero (4:26)
Drunkard's Blues (3:25)
The More it Changes (2:23)
That was Bella Ciao by ARTSomerville again, followed by Troublant Bolero by ALÓ DJANGO, both of which are available from Jamendo and are licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. After that was Drunkard's Blues by tje[amacjeprcjestra. My goodness that's an odd one to read off. It's available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution license. Finishing up was The More it Changes by P4-810 and Dixie McBass, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license.
Today's app-of-the-day is LibreOffice. It's not so much a single app as a full office suite. It has a word processor, spreadsheet app, slideshow app, a database app, and a couple others. Often times I've found it's an easier upgrade path for users than to try to migrate to newer versions of commercial competitors since the interface, with its menus and toolbars, is closer to what people are used to than all the fancy new-style rearranging that everybody seems to like to do nowadays. At any rate, it's free, it opens and saves to a ton of different formats, and it runs on at least Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. Download it today at libreoffice.org
Now for a short noncommercial from one of our nonsponsors followed by more music. As with many if not most old books, it has a few morally grating spots, but the story is one of the better books I've read and was the basis for a bunch of stories and even recent movies and TV shows. Although it rarely gets credited, if you read it you'll recognize the story very very quickly. In fact, the book even shares its name with a few of its derivatives. But I won't give away which one it is just yet. Anyway, after the noncommercial will be more music.
The Lost World
Les Deux Guitares (2:32)
Take Me Back To Tesla (3:45) (Edit 2015-03-08: previous address)
Baila con rita (3:50)
That was Les Deux Guitares by Hedgehog Swing, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution license. After that was Take Me Back To Tesla by Nick Gerow, which is also available from SoundCloud but is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. Finishing up was Baila con rita by Pepe Frías, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.
So, that's all for today. Remember - piracy of commercial music only proves your dependence on that model and justifies further censorship and restriction. So don't pirate it - replace it with something better. Listen to open licensed music, donate to the artists behind it, go to concerts, and buy music from artists whose record labels don't see you as their enemies. Support artists where your support actually counts.
This episode was made using Xubuntu Linux, Gentoo Linux, Audacity, Audacious for organizing playlists, and Leafpad for notes, and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. Feel free to give it to your friends, or if you didn't like it, your enemies. Links to the songs in this podcast are available on the website. Listen in next time for some mystery and spy music! See 'ya!
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Edits:
2015-03-08: Updated link.
Monday, June 18, 2012
Episode 5: Action/Adventure Music
Hi, and welcome to the Open Licensed Music Podcast, the show where we highlight music from artists who let you share their music. I'm Ralph Wacksworth, and today's episode is featuring action/adventure music.
RISING LEGENDS (1:51)
ACTION - Human vs Machines (3:12)
Prelude and Action (1:38)
That was RISING LEGENDS by Epic Soul Factory, followed by ACTION - Human vs Machines by Gregoire Lourme, which are both available from Jamendo and are licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. After that was Prelude and Action by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license.
So, action/adventure music this time. Sadly, as much as I've been successful in switching over to open licensed music, I have not been able to do the same for movies and TV shows. There doesn't seem to be nearly as big of a push for open licensed movies and shows as there is for music. But, that doesn't mean there aren't any out there. I have very little time for watching movies and TV shows anyway, and spend even less checking out new ones, but I've run across a few open licensed videos that are actually quite good. Big Buck Bunny's a good one that really could use a few sequels. Classic cartoon sort of humor. I used to work as an animator, so I very much like good animated films. Sintel, another animated one from the same people, is also quite good. In the TV show department, check out Pioneer One. The quality's about on-par if not better than most recent primetime TV shows I've seen. All three of these are open licensed. I'm sure I'll discover more as time goes on, and I plan on doing a few more soundtrack episodes in various genres, so I'll try and let you know if I find something good. If you have any other recommendations, let me know in the comments for this episode.
So, let's get back to music.
TITAN (2:31)
Epic Unease (0:39)
AMAZONA (1:43)
Five Armies (2:35)
EPIC - Crusaders (2:24)
That was TITAN by Epic Soul Factory, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. After that was Epic Unease by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license. Next up was AMAZONA, again by Epic Soul Factory, available from Jamendo, and licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. The fourth song in the set was Five Armies by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license. Finishing up was EPIC - Crusaders by Gregoire Lourme, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.
Another thing I should mention that you could and should go watch is some of the old stuff that's fallen into the public domain and has been added to archive.org. Classic cartoons, classic silent films, old TV shows, you name it. I would not be at all surprised if a lot of the budget DVDs by checkout counters at grocery
stores are getting their original footage from the archive.org website now instead of copying old films or video tapes. Wikimedia Commons also has some very good old video as well as open-licensed newer stuff. They have a lot of other open licensed media as well, such as pictures and sounds, so it's generally just kind of a neat thing to check out.
Anyway, to get back to the audio category, here's some more music.
Asian Dream (3:36)
Asian Wonders (5:15)
La búsqueda de Ianna (2:39)
The Night of The Faeries (4:50)
That was Asian Dream and Asian Wonders, both by Butteryfly Tea, followed by La búsqueda de Ianna by Epic Soul Factory, and finally The Night of The Faeries by Butteryfly Tea. All four of them are available from Jamendo and licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.
Today's app-of-the-day is Blender. Blender is a 3D modelling, animation, rendering, compositing, and editing suite that does actually get used for big-budget movies. Believe it or not, it very much rivals commercial programs and in many cases surpasses them. Organic modelling functionality is top-of-the-line, and it has long been one of the better fluid simulators on the market. The main downside is that the learning curve on it is incredibly steep, and you'd better be good with the keyboard if you want to work in it efficiently. Version 2.5 really helped the ease of use quite a bit, but despite gracefully handling all kinds of cool advanced functionality, I still struggle to do some simple tasks in it. Once you figure it out, working in it can be incredibly fast and easy, but it's not at all intuitive. The great thing is that it's free, and it runs on Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. Download it today at blender.org
Now for a short noncommercial break from one of our nonsponsors followed by more music.
Librivox
Movement Proposition (2:21)
Before the Battle (1:22)
The Chase (1:38)
That was Movement Proposition by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license. After that was Before the Battle by Mattias Westlund, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution license. Finally, we had The Chase by Marc Teichert, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license.
So, that's all for today. Remember - piracy of commercial music only proves your dependence on that model and justifies further censorship and restriction. So don't pirate it - replace it with something better. Listen to open licensed music, donate to the artists behind it, go to concerts, and buy music from artists whose record labels don't see you as their enemies. Support artists where your support actually counts.
This episode was made using Xubuntu Linux, Gentoo Linux, Audacity, Audacious for organizing playlists, and Leafpad for notes, and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. The other episodes' playlists were also put together in Audacious, and although it wasn't directly involved in the construction of the episode, I figure it's a cool enough program to mention. Anyway, feel free to give this episode to your friends, or if you didn't like it, your enemies. Links to the songs in this podcast are available on the website. Listen in next time for some gypsy jazz! See 'ya!
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Monday, June 11, 2012
Episode 4: Xylophone and Marimba Music
Hi, and welcome to the Open Licensed Music Podcast, the show where we highlight music from artists who let you share their music. I'm Ralph Wacksworth, and today's episode is featuring xylophone and marimba music.
The Annual New England Xylophone Symposium (ft. spinning merkaba) (3:18)
Mushroom Dance (1:22)
Dubakupado (3:32)
That was The Annual New England Xylophone Symposium (ft. spinning merkaba) by DoKashiteru, which is available from ccMixter and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license. After that, we had Mushroom Dance by bart, which is available from OpenGameArt.org and is licensed under an Attribution license. And finishing up was Dubakupado by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from his website incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license.
Which brings me to an interesting thing I found in the process of rounding out this episode. To back up, most of these episodes are based on playlists I've put together for my own listening enjoyment, which I end up organizing and publishing as this podcast. The problem I've run into is that I've discovered that a bunch of the music I've got is under either an Attribution Share-Alike license or some form of a No Derivatives license, neither of which combine nicely with other licenses. If you remember, I ran into that quite badly with the chiptune episode. Well, this one was another one. But I found a new site that is quite awesome for just general instrumental music - the aforementioned incompetech.com from Kevin MacLeod. A bunch of the songs this week are from his site. In fact, I dropped a few other songs I had on the list because his just generally fit the feel really well. Basically, he's got it set up where the songs on the site are, by default, under an Attribution license unless specified differently, and I have yet to see *any* that are specified differently. So, you'll probably hear more of his stuff played on here in the coming weeks.
Also, fair warning: this episode has a couple songs with lyrics. If that bothers you, feel free to download the alternate all-instrumental version available on the website. That'll be after this next set, though.
So, with that said, let's continue:
The Long Goodbye (2:14)
Night Cave (1:53)
gentle marimba (1:44)
Invariance (3:36)
That was The Long Goodbye by John Pazdan, which is available from ccMixter. After that was Night Cave by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com, then gentle marimba by Alastair Cameron which is available from Free Music Archive, and finally Invariance by Kevin MacLeod, which is again available from incompetech.com. All four of them are licensed under an Attribution license.
Did you know you can build a marimba yourself with scrounged parts? That's what an Instructables user named RocketScientist did. He built his because he wanted to be able to practice at home without spending multiple thousands of dollars to purchase one, so he built one using largely scrounged materials including a bunch of wood from a tree that was struck by lightning. It looks and sounds awesome. His instructions are available at http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-Your-Own-Marimba/
Now for the two songs that have vocals but are cool enough I figured I'd include them anyway:
And Broken Again (5:27)
Straight To The Light (ft. Snowflake) (4:58)
That was And Broken Again by Psychotropic Circle and Straight To The Light (ft. Snowflake) by Zep Hurme. Both are available from ccMixter and are licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license.
You want to hear something cool? This is a neat little instrument a picked up a while back. I'm not exactly sure what it's called, but it's essentially a resonant
wooden box with panels on the top you can hit with mallets to play different tones. I figured it fits this episode pretty well. Take a listen.
(Recording of wood box instrument)
Isn't that cool?
Now for a bit more music:
Infados (3:46)
Kalimba experience (2:40)
Constance (2:20)
Yusupov (8:49)
Marimba interlude II (1:02)
That was Infados by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license. After that, we had Kalimba experience by mmb digidesigns, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. Following that was Constance by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license. The long song after that was Yusupov by Zimbalista, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. The last song, which was very much freeform, was Marimba interlude II by Hammer of Hathor, which is available from Free Music Archive and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license.
Yusupov and Kalimba experience are the only two songs in this episode with the Share-Alike term, and as such, they're the only reason this episode isn't just Attribution Noncommercial. If you'd like a version of this episode that's just Attribution Noncommercial, let me know, and I'd be happy to put one together. Don't know if anyone else finds that important - I'd be happy to hear your thoughts on the subject in the comments section on the website.
Today's app-of-the-day is Battle for Wesnoth, a turn-based strategy game for just about every platform you can think of. Travel to a fantasy world, recruit, forge alliances, and battle shared enemies while taking into account terrain and the speed, strengths, and weaknesses of your troops. It has both single-player, network, and single-computer multiplayer modes, with both competitive and coop. The included campaigns provide hours upon hours of gameplay, with tunable difficulty, and if you beat
all of them, they have many more available on the website. As is, it's a fun game to play with friends with laptops for a couple hours. And to give you an idea of the platform compatibility, and having done programming for years I find this admirable mixed with a bit of insanity, but it's available for Linux, BSD, OpenPandora, Solaris and OpenIndiana, AmigaOS and MorphOS, Syllable, BeOS and Haiku, RISC OS, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and it's been ported to and is available for purchase in the HP webOS, Android, and Apple app stores. There are probably more platforms than that, but that's just a quick run-down. Anyway, since basically if you're listening to this, your device is probably capable of running it, you should download it and try it out from wesnoth.org.
Now for a short noncommercial break from one of our non-sponsors. And for anyone listening to this - please consider putting together a commercial for something you like. There are not nearly enough commercials for open content or open source projects out there, and there are even fewer which are licensed under an open license that I can legally include in this podcast. I'm sure a number of you can think of something cool that you use that could use some recognition. Send it in to them, post it online, or just send them to me at openlicensedmusic (take out all of this and put an @ in instead) gmail.com. There are lots of good open music podcasts and open source review and info podcasts out there, and I'm sure a number of them would love to help you promote your project.
Anyway, after the noncommercial, we'll have a couple more songs.
Nonsense Novels
Feel good island (1:52)
Chee Zee Beach (3:23)
That was Feel good island by Brandon75689, which is available from OpenGameArt.org. After that was Chee Zee Beach by Kevin Macleod, which is available from incompetech.com. Both of them are licensed under an Attribution license.
So, that's all for today. Remember - piracy of commercial music only proves your dependence on that model and justifies further censorship and restriction. So don't pirate it - replace it with something better. Listen to open licensed music, donate to the artists behind it, go to concerts, and buy music from artists whose record labels don't see you as their enemies. Support artists where your support actually counts.
This episode was made using Xubuntu Linux, Gentoo Linux, Audacity, and Leafpad for notes, and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. Feel free to give it to your friends, or if you didn't like it, your enemies. Links to the songs in this podcast are available on the website. Listen in next time for some action/adventure music! See 'ya!
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(Instrumental version coming soon)
The Annual New England Xylophone Symposium (ft. spinning merkaba) (3:18)
Mushroom Dance (1:22)
Dubakupado (3:32)
That was The Annual New England Xylophone Symposium (ft. spinning merkaba) by DoKashiteru, which is available from ccMixter and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license. After that, we had Mushroom Dance by bart, which is available from OpenGameArt.org and is licensed under an Attribution license. And finishing up was Dubakupado by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from his website incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license.
Which brings me to an interesting thing I found in the process of rounding out this episode. To back up, most of these episodes are based on playlists I've put together for my own listening enjoyment, which I end up organizing and publishing as this podcast. The problem I've run into is that I've discovered that a bunch of the music I've got is under either an Attribution Share-Alike license or some form of a No Derivatives license, neither of which combine nicely with other licenses. If you remember, I ran into that quite badly with the chiptune episode. Well, this one was another one. But I found a new site that is quite awesome for just general instrumental music - the aforementioned incompetech.com from Kevin MacLeod. A bunch of the songs this week are from his site. In fact, I dropped a few other songs I had on the list because his just generally fit the feel really well. Basically, he's got it set up where the songs on the site are, by default, under an Attribution license unless specified differently, and I have yet to see *any* that are specified differently. So, you'll probably hear more of his stuff played on here in the coming weeks.
Also, fair warning: this episode has a couple songs with lyrics. If that bothers you, feel free to download the alternate all-instrumental version available on the website. That'll be after this next set, though.
So, with that said, let's continue:
The Long Goodbye (2:14)
Night Cave (1:53)
gentle marimba (1:44)
Invariance (3:36)
That was The Long Goodbye by John Pazdan, which is available from ccMixter. After that was Night Cave by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com, then gentle marimba by Alastair Cameron which is available from Free Music Archive, and finally Invariance by Kevin MacLeod, which is again available from incompetech.com. All four of them are licensed under an Attribution license.
Did you know you can build a marimba yourself with scrounged parts? That's what an Instructables user named RocketScientist did. He built his because he wanted to be able to practice at home without spending multiple thousands of dollars to purchase one, so he built one using largely scrounged materials including a bunch of wood from a tree that was struck by lightning. It looks and sounds awesome. His instructions are available at http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-Your-Own-Marimba/
Now for the two songs that have vocals but are cool enough I figured I'd include them anyway:
And Broken Again (5:27)
Straight To The Light (ft. Snowflake) (4:58)
That was And Broken Again by Psychotropic Circle and Straight To The Light (ft. Snowflake) by Zep Hurme. Both are available from ccMixter and are licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license.
You want to hear something cool? This is a neat little instrument a picked up a while back. I'm not exactly sure what it's called, but it's essentially a resonant
wooden box with panels on the top you can hit with mallets to play different tones. I figured it fits this episode pretty well. Take a listen.
(Recording of wood box instrument)
Isn't that cool?
Now for a bit more music:
Infados (3:46)
Kalimba experience (2:40)
Constance (2:20)
Yusupov (8:49)
Marimba interlude II (1:02)
That was Infados by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license. After that, we had Kalimba experience by mmb digidesigns, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. Following that was Constance by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license. The long song after that was Yusupov by Zimbalista, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. The last song, which was very much freeform, was Marimba interlude II by Hammer of Hathor, which is available from Free Music Archive and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license.
Yusupov and Kalimba experience are the only two songs in this episode with the Share-Alike term, and as such, they're the only reason this episode isn't just Attribution Noncommercial. If you'd like a version of this episode that's just Attribution Noncommercial, let me know, and I'd be happy to put one together. Don't know if anyone else finds that important - I'd be happy to hear your thoughts on the subject in the comments section on the website.
Today's app-of-the-day is Battle for Wesnoth, a turn-based strategy game for just about every platform you can think of. Travel to a fantasy world, recruit, forge alliances, and battle shared enemies while taking into account terrain and the speed, strengths, and weaknesses of your troops. It has both single-player, network, and single-computer multiplayer modes, with both competitive and coop. The included campaigns provide hours upon hours of gameplay, with tunable difficulty, and if you beat
all of them, they have many more available on the website. As is, it's a fun game to play with friends with laptops for a couple hours. And to give you an idea of the platform compatibility, and having done programming for years I find this admirable mixed with a bit of insanity, but it's available for Linux, BSD, OpenPandora, Solaris and OpenIndiana, AmigaOS and MorphOS, Syllable, BeOS and Haiku, RISC OS, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and it's been ported to and is available for purchase in the HP webOS, Android, and Apple app stores. There are probably more platforms than that, but that's just a quick run-down. Anyway, since basically if you're listening to this, your device is probably capable of running it, you should download it and try it out from wesnoth.org.
Now for a short noncommercial break from one of our non-sponsors. And for anyone listening to this - please consider putting together a commercial for something you like. There are not nearly enough commercials for open content or open source projects out there, and there are even fewer which are licensed under an open license that I can legally include in this podcast. I'm sure a number of you can think of something cool that you use that could use some recognition. Send it in to them, post it online, or just send them to me at openlicensedmusic (take out all of this and put an @ in instead) gmail.com. There are lots of good open music podcasts and open source review and info podcasts out there, and I'm sure a number of them would love to help you promote your project.
Anyway, after the noncommercial, we'll have a couple more songs.
Nonsense Novels
Feel good island (1:52)
Chee Zee Beach (3:23)
That was Feel good island by Brandon75689, which is available from OpenGameArt.org. After that was Chee Zee Beach by Kevin Macleod, which is available from incompetech.com. Both of them are licensed under an Attribution license.
So, that's all for today. Remember - piracy of commercial music only proves your dependence on that model and justifies further censorship and restriction. So don't pirate it - replace it with something better. Listen to open licensed music, donate to the artists behind it, go to concerts, and buy music from artists whose record labels don't see you as their enemies. Support artists where your support actually counts.
This episode was made using Xubuntu Linux, Gentoo Linux, Audacity, and Leafpad for notes, and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. Feel free to give it to your friends, or if you didn't like it, your enemies. Links to the songs in this podcast are available on the website. Listen in next time for some action/adventure music! See 'ya!
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Monday, June 4, 2012
Episode 3: Cartoon music
Hi, and welcome to the Open Licensed Music Podcast, the show where we highlight music from artists who let you share their music. I'm Ralph Wacksworth, and today's episode is featuring cartoon music.
The Barber of Seville Overture (7:49)
Strauss Waltz Medley (4:55)
That was The Barber of Seville Overture by Gioacchino Rossini and performed by the Davis High School Symphony Orchestra, and after that we had Strauss Waltz Medley by Johann Strauss Sr. and performed by the US Air Force Band, so it's not exactly just one song but a number of recognizable parts of Strauss songs. Both of them are available from musopen.org and are licensed under a Public Domain license.
So, with that said, from a license compliance standpoint, I didn't need to say it. Why? Because each of the artists in this episode have graciously dropped just about any kind of restriction from this music. I still want to make sure they're credited though - I feel they deserve it even more for not forcing people to do so. It's a pretty awesome thing to do, and a lot of the music from musopen.org is licensed that way. As always, it's a good idea to check the license before redistributing them, but the music on musopen.org has on average the least amount of restrictions of any of the sites I get music from.
So, is it classical music? Of course not! It's cartoon music. And for those of you who watched cartoons as much as I did when I was little, you're probably seeing characters hitting each other over the head with giant hammers, running over each other with steam rollers, or falling off cliffs while listening to this. Many of these will be different cartoons to different listeners due to the number of different cartoons that used a number of these songs. The nice thing is that you can listen to this and actually know what the songs you know so well are really called and/or who they were composed by. You, too, can learn to be a classical music fan through watching cartoons from the comfort of your own living room!
There will not be nearly as many songs in this episode as there usually are due to how long some of these are. So, to get back to things, here are a few more of them.
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 - I. Allegro con brio (7:54)
Minuet in G (2:23)
Fur Elise (2:50)
That was Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Opus 67, First Movement performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra followed by Minuet in G performed by Peter J. And finally we had Fur Elise, also performed by Peter J. All of them are by Ludwig van Beethoven and are available from musopen.org under a Public Domain license.
Today's app-of-the-day is Linux MultiMedia Studio, which contrary to its name is also available for Microsoft Windows and from what I can tell BSD as well. It's a music-making program, and supports piano roll style sequencer editing as well as loop-based editing. It comes with a few loops, but it's also compatible with many commercially-available loop libraries as well as many free ones. They have a bunch of demos on their site if you want to hear what it's capable of. I've only used this program a little to try it out, but it seemed like a very capable program. As powerful or moreso than commercial loop-based editing software I've bought, though with that power comes a slight drop in simplicity, in my opinion. Couple it with some sounds and loops from freesound.org and a bit of creativity, and you could easily put together a cool song in an hour. All in all, definitely worth trying out. You can download it from their website at lmms.sourceforge.net. Now get out there and make
some cool music!
Now for a short noncommercial break from one of our non-sponsors. And to be perfectly honest, this is mainly due to my fandom of the original Sherlock Holmes stories. The pre-Moriarty ones are really, really great. After the noncommercial, we'll have some more music.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Liberty Bell (3:41)
Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 (9:04)
That was The Liberty Bell by John Phillip Sousa and performed by the United States Marine Band. After that was Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Franz Liszt which was performed by the National Military Band. Both are available from musopen.org and are licensed under a Public Domain license.
So, that's all for today. I fully intend to do another cartoon music episode in the future - I do have more music lined up for it. Remember - piracy of commercial music only proves your dependence on that model and justifies further censorship and restriction. So don't pirate it - replace it with something better.
This episode was made using Xubuntu Linux, Gentoo Linux, Audacity, and gedit for notes, and is licensed under the Creative Commons Public Domain license, thanks to all of the music being available under Public Domain licenses from musopen.org. I would much rather distribute these episodes under more permissive licenses and will be doing so when I can. At any rate, feel free to give it to your friends, or if you didn't like it, your enemies. Listen in next time for some xylophone and marimba music! See 'ya!
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Monday, May 28, 2012
Episode 2: Chiptunes
Hi, and welcome to the Open Licensed Music Podcast, the show where we highlight music from artists who let you share their music. I'm Ralph Wacksworth, and today's episode is featuring chiptunes.
Chiptune 02 - Spacechip (3:07)
Asbestos Factory (2:18)
Through Pixelated Clouds (8-bit airship remix) (0:49)
Pair Of Minutes Before Reboot (3:20)
That was Chiptune 02 - Spacechip by Chawrafa then Asbestos Factory by Jakim, both of them available from Jamendo and licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license, followed by Through Pixelated Clouds (8-bit airship remix) by bart, which is available from OpenGameArt.org and is licensed under an Attribution license, and finishing up we had Pair Of Minutes Before Reboot by 2NRO8OT, which is available from Free Music Archive and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.
So, what is a chiptune? Well, as you've probably guessed, it's pretty much a song that sounds like 80s-era video games. Often times artists will use actual video game hardware to build and play their music. The Nintendo Gameboy is a fairly popular platform for it. Chiptunes can also be put together on a regular ol' computer. One program I've seen used before is MilkyTracker, and although I haven't used it, the guy who was showing me made it look quite powerful and fun. It's open source and runs on Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and even AmigaOS. You can get it from milkytracker.org.
A quick note about this episode - this was a difficult episode to put together, mainly because about half of the songs I wanted to include were under licenses that are incompatible with the others. There's a lot more really awesome chiptune music out there than what I was able to include in this episode, and as a result, I'll probably end up doing another chiptune episode in the future with mostly songs that I couldn't include in this episode.
So, without further ado, here's some more music:
The Adventure Begins 8-bit Remix (1:28)
Poppies (2:22)
Sting Operation (2:40)
Epileptic (3:35)
Jump and Run (8-bit) (0:42)
That was The Adventure Begins 8-bit Remix by bart, which is available from OpenGameArt.org and licensed under an Attribution license, followed by Poppies by Rolemusic and Sting Operation by Anamanaguchi, both of which are available from Free Music Archive and are licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. After that was Epileptic by Spintronic, which is available from Jamendo and is also licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license, and finishing up was Jump and Run, also by bart, also available from OpenGameArt.org, and also licensed under an Attribution license.
Today's app-of-the-day is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. The features of this unfortunately-named program rival commercial image processing programs with few exceptions. It's very much comparable to a very popular needlessly-often-pirated photo processing program that many graphics shops use, though I've found if you've used said commercial program enough to develop muscle memory, you may have a little bit of a hard time adjusting to some of the quirky interface differences, though the same doesn't seem to be true for people learning it fresh. It's very capable, and it's my tool of choice for making wallpapers for my computer. It's availble for Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. I've even been able to successfully run it on my cell phone. Download it today at gimp.org.
Now for a short noncommercial break from one of our non-sponsors, followed by more music.
ccMixter Rap (with Music) (1:54)
Dark 8bit Song (1:16)
chessboss (0:39)
Troubled Dreams (2:02)
NoNoNo (1:19)
That was ccMixter Rap (with Music) by Togora, available from ccMixter and licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license. I find it kind of funny that I have to attribute them for what is essentially a commercial, but hey, that's how it's licensed. After that was Dark 8bit Song by sauer2, which is available from OpenGameArt.org and is licensed under the CC0 license, which in my opinion is a pretty awesome license. After that was chessboss by Bert Fisk, Troubled Dreams by Rushjet1, and NoNoNo by Comptroller, all of which are available from Free Music Archive and are licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.
As you've probably noticed, a bunch of the music for this episode came from OpenGameArt.org. They have not only music, but also graphics, 3D models, and sound effects. It pretty well puts "make a game" back on the "weekend projects" list for me, like it used to be back in the days when BASIC dialects were popular. Between that and languages like Python and C#, you could easily build a complete game in a matter of a few hours of free time, and many of the licenses are incredibly permissive, giving you a wide range of compatible open-source software licenses under which you can publish your game.
Another neat site that the previously-mentioned license incompatibility kind of forced me to discover is Free Music Archive. That's one I will be perusing in earnest in the upcoming weeks. There is a ton of music on there, and somehow I don't think I'd ever heard about it until recently.
And just as a reminder, this podcast is not particularly endorsed by any of the non-sponsors I'm mentioning. I just find them quite cool, support what they do, and would love to see them become a bit more popular.
So, now that promoting cool stuff is done, more music!
Play (Intro) (1:49)
Twinkle (3:47)
Spell (2:16)
80sDancePopClarinet (0:59)
Procrastination Polka (0:47)
That was Play (Intro) by 2NRO8OT, Twinkle by Lo-Bat, and Spell by Rolemusic, all of which are available from Free Music Archive and are licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. After that, we had 80sDancePopClarinet by nickleus, which is available from ccMixter and is licensed under an Attribution license. That one was mainly added because it reminds me of happy times zoning squares as Light Residential and engineering power and water systems. Finally, the goofy little
song that capped off that set was Procrastination Polka by Dragan Espenschied, which is available from Free Music Archive and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license. That one just makes me smile, and with playing it last, hopefully it will become obnoxiously lodged in your head.
So, that's all for today. Remember - piracy of commercial music only proves your dependence on that model and justifies further censorship and restriction. So don't pirate it - replace it with something better.
This episode was made using Xubuntu Linux, Gentoo Linux, Audacity, and gedit for notes, and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license. Feel free to give it to your friends, or if you didn't like it, your enemies. Links to the songs in this podcast are available on the website. Listen in next time for some cartoon music! See 'ya!
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