I don't know how many of you are familiar with the brilliant site Musopen, but let me take a couple minutes to detail it for you. This site is so amazing that I can almost guarantee that everyone trying to achieve a degree in new media will use it at least some point or another. It's purpose is to basically provide music as public domain to the world. If you are wondering, the way they go about this is since the music itself is public domain but the performance is not, they hire people to play all this music in which they subsequently sign off on all the rights to make it public domain to everyone. While it is mostly just classical music, it is still extremely useful for those looking for free music for their projects. I have used this on several occasions for my projects, and I couldn't have been happier with its existence. It has greatly expanded its music reach since it launched and I can see them even expanding beyond the single genre of classical music in the next couple years. That's the brilliant thing, it is an idea that will always have a place of validity and will never cease to be useful as long as there is music to be made.
12.02.2009
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