chunter music collection

Copyrights & Licensing page added

I thought that it would be a good idea for me to explain the legal issues of how my music is protected and how I hope my music will be used by listeners. Naturally, just knowing that people are listening makes me very happy. If you have larger ideas for using my music, thank you, I simply ask that you please familiarize yourself with the Creative Commons license and the appropriate copyright law. If anyone ever wants to use my work for a project that is not commercial, simply use it. If you want to let me know about the project, it would certainly make me happy. If you want to use my music in something commercial, please contact me so that a proper licensing arrangement can be made. In the near future, I hope to make this sort of licensing easy. Please read this for more details: http://chunter.info/copyrights-licensing/

I am a supporter of the global reform of copyright law. It should not be difficult to share work on a worldwide scale. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

2010: 02/04
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SambaNES (or FamiSamba)

Download courtesy of 8bitcollective.com

I didn’t expect to come in 9th in FamiCompo Mini 6, but that’s what this track did, in the Originals section, created in spare time through December. My goal was simply to finish in the upper third.

I look forward to FamiCompo Mini because it carries a large and global scale. It’s an honor to have placed well in it.

2010: 01/13
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Away In a Manger

Download courtesy of loopproject.com

According to Wikipedia, this song has origins in American hymnals from the late 1800’s. Though those hymnals tried to attribute the song to Martin Luther, it appears to be a lyric composed by an American and set to a Scottish melody. I know of at least three melodies for this song, so in my piece I have attempted to include them all. Notice how they all have waltz time, and all sound like they could easily be played as bagpipe marches; perhaps one could argue that this is a medley of unknown Scottish folk songs.

2009: 12/25
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Darkest Night of the Year

Download courtesy of loopproject.com

In a global culture that gradually moves itself toward 24-hour days that are, on a vast majority, spent indoors, the aspect that maintains our agricultural sense of the harvest is the collection of holidays celebrated around the world between October and January. It is no coincidence that Christmas is four days after Winter Solstice, and that we celebrate the beginnings of hope for a better life and a better world on the darkest night of the year.
An interpretation of Stille Nacht by Josef Moht and Franz Xaver Gruber.

I made this for SounDevotion’s holiday-themed round 34 last year. There’ll be another for this year too.

2009: 12/24
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Broken Machine

Download from battleofthebits.org

A garbled wall of happy ambience, made for the Battle of the Bits’ Ann Arbor 8 mix contest. The samples for this mix were very lush and large. The lesson I take from this round is that the lush samples can do a lot of work if you leave a lot of space in the mix for them, otherwise, they have to be filtered, thinned, and chopped down so that the big sounds don’t beat each other up. Just as a composer should work with a variety of sounds and styles, a good mix should have a good range of sounds- small. medium, and large.

Congratulations to µB who won the contest by creating a very fun song from the same pallette of sounds.