I did the scoring for “Bite-Sized Minecraft 2″, and a few people have asked for bits to be released on my site.
The problem is, they are really really short.

I took one of the longer ones and made it much much longer.

Hitman

There is just something about this kind of music that screams “weather forecast” to me.
Luckily, changing the tempo changes the character, so you can enjoy three different feelings for the price of one!

Local Forecast (93 bpm)
Local Forecast – Slower (77 bpm)
Local Forecast – Elevator (for when you need some music in a lift)

Happy February, all!

“Will you score this incredibly complicated action movie I’m filming for my 6th grade film class? It’ll be great publicity for you because my whole class will see it – and you’ll be in the credits!”

That’s what I deal with all the time. Great publicity and $10 will get me lunch*.

If you are a content producer, please do not try to sell “publicity” to anyone. I get the “publicity” sell continuously – and what it generally means is that the product is abysmal.

Professionals understand which projects will increase their profile and which ones will not. No need to mention explicitly.

Now that I’ve annoyed everyone who has ever sold “publicity”, I’m going to go back to my music-hole and work a bit. I’ll probably not get much publicity by doing that, though. hmm…

*Please donate $10 for Kevin’s lunch.

This is a piece for dramatic use when someone is dying or crying or both.
The high strained-sounding basson brings a calm tension, and the harp smooths it out a bit while giving some grounding.

Plaint

There is also a zip file of sheet musics available (all with accompaniment in C):
– Bass Clef in C (One octave off)
– Tenor Clef in C (Bassoon)
– Alto Clef in C (Viol de Gamba – playable as a duet with 2 viols)
– Treble Clef in C (Whatever)
– Treble Clef in Bb (Clarinet)
– Treble Clef in F (English Horn)

Go Cart
Go Cart – Drop Mix
Go Cart – Loop Mix

A beautifully clean piece with a nasty edge.
Thanks to everyone who donated for this piece!

Cheers.

– km

“Gorilla Trekking in Rwanda”

For some reason, I freaking love gorillas. These are some unsettlingly up-close ones… with a cool soundtrack. :-)

A week ago, I posted about a new piece of music that I was going to release, “Go Cart”.
I think it is one of the best pieces I’ve done in a while, and it was a direct response to a lot of requests I’ve been getting.

Turns out, the people who were asking for this don’t donate* – quite a surprise, actually!

*The few who did donate are the obvious exception.

Why I’m pushing donations

A few weeks ago, donations hit a low. A major low. A one-donation-per-50,000-people low. That’s terrible, and a bit demoralizing.

So, I figured I’d give donors a premium, and see how popular each piece of music – is all at the same time!

If you don’t like “Go Cart”, you can still donate. Just put in the note that it is not your thing, and I’ll probably not
produce much like this (which is fine by me, because Go Cart was SUPER time consuming!).

I’ve not done anything on Craigslist for a long time.
Within minutes of my first posting in a while… a scammer shows up.

The Craigslist Scammer

This is a brief preview of an upcoming release, “Go Cart”.
If you donate $8 or more online, I’ll send you the entire piece today in mp3 and wav format.
I’ll also send you 2 other arrangements… Drop Mix, and Loop Mix.
I’ll also send you a pile of loops that you can arrange in your DAW to make your own mixes.

UPDATE! Donation goal met for this piece!

Donate $8 or more:

An orchestral piece with a crap-pile of percussion because I was trying new mixing techniques.

Get it here: Full On

Enjoy!

Thanks to everyone who helped donate to make this piece happen.
Cheers, all!

String Impromptu Number 1

Bass busting techo remix? Oh yeah!
Super thanks to The Gothsicles for cranking this piece out.

Download from here: www.thegothsicles.com/
Follow them here: @thegothsicles
and while you’re at it…
Follow me here: @kmacleod

Donation drive for String Impromptu Number 1 is closed.

Thanks to everyone who participated!

It was here, then it was gone, and now it is back!
It is better organized, and has a new lower price for January!

Download all of the music on this site at once!
Complete incompetech mp3 files – $78

I got an email from Italy asking me to do music from Italy. So, sure, why not.
Also – Italian musicians – why are you not writing this stuff? I don’t mean to push into your territory… but there is very little available in the Creative Commons Tarantella area.
So now you all get a Tarantella named for a Brooklyn neighborhood.

Bushwick Tarantella

UPDATE
Looped version now available!

Cheers, all!