Hi! Today my group continued working toward our music needs. Throughout the past couple of weeks, we’ve been on the search for the perfect tracks to accompany our thriller film. Our intention was to create an eerie and tense atmosphere through our chosen music, primarily pounding, memorable tracks. The search was first set out on Spotify, where one of my group members found a promising number of songs to be used, later compiling a playlist to be shared among the group. The only problem was, many of the songs we had garnered were from late artists. This posed a drawback in trying to receive a correspondence to gain the permissions to utilize the selected songs. In an attempt for permission, one of my groupmates reached out a couple of weeks ago to both Universal Music Group and billy joel through instagram to get a temporary license for part of Billy Joel's song “the stranger.” Other than Instagram DM, we continued with other means of communication like emailing, but got no response with either. We didn’t want to dish the idea of using that entirely, but it was time for a different course of action. Furthering our range of resources, royalty free music websites were the next step. I heard a wide variety of sounds using domains like Premiumbeat and Mixkit, including surf rock, pulsating heartbeats, cultish chanting, and everything in between. The websites offered hundreds of options, including songs like "Global Warming" by Glasgow, "Vertigo" by Eugenia Mininni, and "The Black Lake" by Geoffrey Burch. However, most of these options involved paying for copyright claims, and that wasn't an option for us. YouTube was also an option, but I didn't find anything worth using for our movie. I continued combing the web for music ideas in class, and I came across something very promising. Music published before 1923 is public domain music, which does not have copyright restrictions and is free to use. Meaning, any tracks we found dated earlier than 1923 were free game! This was perfect for our cause because older songs check every box for the type of vibe needed. Using the “Public Domain Information Project,” we cherry-picked songs that fit our quota like “House of The Rising Sun” by Tom Clarence Ashley and Gwen Foster and “I Ain’t Got Nobody(And Nobody Cares for Me)” by Spencer Williams and Dave Peyton. I also found that the song “Rockin’ Robin” by Bobby Day was open for free public usage, this being one of the songs we were considering from the beginning, this was great news! Another option we’re nearing if we get more troubles with our music is creating our own music. Using a program like Audacity or GarageBand, we could have a fun time making something scary. This concludes our current research, but then again, changes are constantly being made. Who knows, soon we could be oo-ing and aa-ing into a distorted mic for this!
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