Here’s an article I wrote up at SoundOnSound which, by the way, is a great magazine.

There’s a lot going on with online libraries. Quite a bit of innovation that leaves the other guys behind. Sure there are some bad deals out there (one site just launched last week offering only a 25% of the music part of the deal). Another, Pump Audio dropped its commission rates to all artists by 30% a few weeks ago. However, on the whole, these guys tend to deal with a different market to the traditional libraries such as Extreme Audio for instance.

The other thing that a lot of artists are now doing is building up two music collections; one for the broadcast high end market where there will certainly be a return (eventually) via the performing rights collection agency. The second is royalty free. This means that the music is licensed for a specific use (most of the time) but there are no performing royalties that are due.

Although this is hard to accept for some of the guys who have been successful with broadcast royalties there is a different market out there which that type of music is both too expensive for, and also, is way too good for.

Royalty free music is music that costs less to produce and is based on fitting a genre for a specific business need. For instance there is demand from business for background music for presentations. Background music for websites is another. The cost of this, if licensed via a performing rights society puts many off, so going to an online supplier who can present a selection of pieces and make purchase and licensing easy is a reality today with the Internet.

This is a drop in the ocean of what markets there are out there for this second level of music and I think it is certainly worth investigating to see if you have the capacity to build a second catalogue for these markets. Given a good catalogue of reasonable size, and the ability to add to it regularly, you will be pretty assured of building up a regular income from this catalogue. Also, I would recommend picking a few of your favourites, don’t just pick one and sit back.

I would recommend going for online royalty free sites that offer non-exclusive agreements of 50% commission on the full sales price, has a good position in your genres on search engines, is easily reachable and good at communicating & even will call you to chat over details and plans.

Personally, the above is how I like to run AmbientMusicGarden.com (one of my sites) but rest assured there are other guys out there that you will find trustworthy and good to do business with as well.

Best of luck

Today (18th May 2009) Ambient Music Garden launches its first two collections of music under a new subscription service for use as background music for businesses.

Ambient Music Garden’s Background Music Service offers businesses a new affordable way to use music in their business environment.

The service offers a monthly subscription for the license to use music royalty free. This means that the cost of music runs with the earnings of a business thus helping with cash flow challenges and also enabling a ‘no risk’ approach to trying a new model for supply and licensing of music in a business environment. Businesses can now use this music within their business environments without needing to take out a license from a performing rights society (note: never mix performing rights society music with music licensed as royalty free as you will still have to pay for a performing rights license).

Traditionally businesses would need to source the music that they need by purchasing CDs at consumer prices (at least) plus then purchasing a license to be able to use this music in a business environment from a performing rights society. So not only great music that is targeted for relaxing and feeling good in business environments, this collection will reduce costs of operation for businesses as well as increase sales (see this article on the effect of music in retail environments).

With Ambient Music Garden’s Background Music Service both the license and the music are part of the package.

The music is offered on a monthly basis for licensing with each month providing refresh of the collection and a portion of the tracks are replaced with new tracks ensuring the collection continues to be fresh and never dull.

Ambient Music Garden’s Background Music Service can be found by clicking here.

More details on the music collections to come.

Pump Audio evolves from innovator to corporate dinosaur.

See: Pump Audio Reduces Music Royalties By 30%

Does Pump Audio not have access to cash to invest in growth? Its credit
crunch time, so where do you get money from to invest in new business if you
are a music licensor? Pay your workforce less of course! you don’t have to
pay them any interest or dividends either!

Music innovation at its worse.

This is another nail in the coffin of the performing royalty related music
licensing industry. More and more artists will look to new innovative ways
to sell their music and, with the growth of royalty free music rising they
will see that it is a real and attractive alternative to the costly
lisensing and royalty fee process that is more costly to license buyers.

With the credit crunch redefining the way businesses think about the costs
of their business there has never been a better time for artists to build a
catalogue of royalty free music and never been a better time for businesses
to strip a layer of cost from their businesses by purchasing quality royalty
free music.

Relaxing Music For Download and Licensing Today

Hi from Ambient Music Garden! Here’s some new music we have been collecting during late last year for Spring & Summer 2009. The music gets better and wider with more ambience & more chilled music from new artists. Royalty Free licenses for either therapy & home listening, or for background music use in business.
Calm Space by Uncarved Block: Continuous over one hour of ambient meditation music. One of our longest pieces, this relaxing ambient minimalist piece will never stop half way through your healing session !
Green Sun: Elements: A gorgeous piano based album of cheerful ‘feel good’ pieces. Excellent as already fed back for background music to yoga classes but also perfect for background music for dvd productions. I just can’t feel anything but happy when I listen to this album.
Proxima IV: Tantilisingly atmospheric. Where did this album come from? Suddenly out of the blue Proxima IV created a collection of pieces here that stands up with the best of nature inspired ambient. Loose yourself in this album for hours.
Kesseny Rain Rain: A m inimalist therapy & healing track, around 50 minutes long with chimes to mark keys points in the track. The piece starts with a warm soothling meolody, then moves to a meditative middle piece for the therapy work and builds up again in the last 10 minutes to assist in waking up your client. Also great for guided imagery CD productions.
Jeff Woodall. Jeff has offered up three long ambient relaxing pieces for meditation and relaxing at home. Additionally Jeff’s pieces will work well for licensing for background music for productions as there is a wealth of music to choose from from each long continuous play piece.
Dream Odyssey: a mix of natural sounds, accoustic plucking, mystic tones & subtle chior vocals create a perfect ambience for relaxation, meditation and healing.
Summer Tranquility: with deep warm tones backed with birds and crickets there is no doubt you are surrounded by nature in full swing and a warm summer breeze.
Emerald Trees: the sounds of water and leaves, shimmering cymbals and dreamy piano. Exactly the right piece for DVD background projects and guided imagery.
Thank you for subscribing to our news. We hope you have a great spring and summer. Peace Guy

Groove Armada have singed with a drinks manufacturer to jointly market and collaborate on product ideas. The full article hints at the “shift in the industry creates a maze of opportunities for selling music”.

The full music industry article at the bbc continues with Grove mentioning that, “In the 21st Century music scene, with music sales down and the internet transferring power to the artists, their options are wide open”.

Musicians need to become, and are becoming small business entrepreneurs. Keeping their options open by licensing the right to sell their music via multiple channels and multiple markets.

The day of signing your copyright ownership to a company who then (if you are lucky) pay you an advance whilst spending money on credit as they see fit with variable influence by you the artist has gone. Seeing a large organization spend your music’s earnings on large overheads rather than pay you is something I hope we never see again.

Uncarved Block’s latest relaxation and meditation journey is now available on Ambient Music Garden at:

Uncarved Block’s Calm Space album page.Great for meditation and deep therapy work, Calm Space works through four pieces of music that change in mood from mystical with warm deep notes to slightly industrial and drone.

Available for personal listening and for single therapy practices, and also available for business projects under our Royalty Free Production Music License.

Check out more of Uncarved Block’s catalogue at the Uncarved Block Artist Page.

Always ensure the license you purchase legally allows you to use this music for your purpose.

Jash has recently created a new 40 minute therapeutic piece called Music For Treatments. The piece provides a flow of constant tones with wispy bird-like calls floating over the top. From start to finish there is no surprise, no sudden change or alteration to the tone or introduction to melody.

The piece is designed specifically to connect with the unconscious and so nothing it put in the way of doing that. The tones help you move into a subconscious state and allow you to focus on relaxing images of glowing red suns with birds flying overhead.

Available today at Ambient Music Garden, under Jash’s artist page for all independent therapists or, using the royalty free license, available for therapy centres and other business projects.

When the guys at RoyaltyFreeMusic.com asked us at Ambient Music Garden to review their new relaxation collection we were honoured and pleased to do so. We at Ambient Music Garden know what makes music therapeutic, relaxing and for healing. We know what will soothe and what will awaken you. We know what will work in the conscious and what will work in the subconscious.

So enough of the trumpet blowing. Lets get on with the review. The collection is called Mystic Meditation and and is a part of RoyaltyFreeMusic.com’s collection of royalty free hypnosis music.

This collection is called Mystic Meditation and is a part of RoyaltyFreeMusic.com’s collection of royalty free hypnosis music

The collection starts off with Bisque Pimp, a warm and awakening ambient track with minimal melodic ingredient making it useful for therapies of the subconscious and meditation.

Drone Boy isn’t as you may think, a meditative drone ambient track. Instead there are gentle watery sounds flowing over acoustic plucks and ambient, reflective piano chords. Background nature sounds warm the soul and emphasise the feeling of safety and calmness within the piece.

Seeing the title, Greasy Drama and the Def Quiver made me wonder what to expect. Early in the listener is greeted with gentle whistles and spiralling sounds. A subtle tone lays a melody for those that want to listen hard, but if not, you can lay back and imagine yourself in the clouds.

Liquid Eye Full presents a gentle plucked melody from the east with whistle accompaniment and an ambience of a monastery high in misty mountains.

Meditate Grandpa returns us to ambient piano but with more ambient background sounds and light percussion giving a sense of space and warm afternoon sun.

My personal favourite track name from this collection, Millipede of the Mystic Bottle Full gives us tinkling sounds of thousands of little feet whilst a piano & electric piano provide ambient wanderings with the backing of padded synth lines and warm tones.

Pancake Brain offers us some sudden rushes and cymbals to warn us of perhaps a more mysterious ride that we have heard so far. With door like squeaks and low drone we are perhaps in a more natural urban ambient environment.

Peace Egplant tells us we are moving east again and are drawn in with a breathy subtle melody whilst chimes are blown by the wind in the background with the occasional flute note to add more the flavour of the east once again.

Serene Ferret opens with a digeridoo and sudden flute sounds offering up the ambience of open spaces. This piece will not warm but will chill you, like a dark rain cloud overhead.

This Old Legion opens dark with deep notes clashing whilst brighter sounds try to get through like a cloudy day with a little peek of blue sky. As things clear the piece develops into a windy day perhaps moving towards a rain storm.

If you have a collection of downtempo or ambient pieces of music you would like reviewing, please give us a shout.

Guy
Ambient Music Garden

In a recent retail times article it was stated that there are only a few places to purchase a license to use music in your retail store.

Well, its not true. If you exclusively choose to purchase music from royalty free organisations such as Ambient Music Garden, you don’t have to purchase a license from a performance rights association because you are not using the royalty free music illegally by playing it in your store. That is what it was designed for and what you purchased the right to do via your royalty free partner.

Choosing royalty free music means that you can choose from a range of businesses online and mix your play list to suit your needs. But whatever you do, don’t mix this music with music from CDs you picked up off Amazon or from your local music store, if you still have one. You will not automatically have the right to play this music in your store, unlike the royalty free music. Mixing them will mean you will have to pay for a performance royalty license so that the artists and copyright owners of the music on the CD get paid for that type of use of their music.

If you have any questions about this please get in touch and we can chat.

New at Ambient Music Garden is the Timescapes album by Phiilip Jons.

Jons has created a chilled, relaxing collection of pieces for a whole album that can be purchases as an album or separately as individual tracks for royalty free uses.

Timescapes is a traditional relaxation style of album that will work with many therapy environments as backgrounds to massage and other relaxation style therapies.

Timescapes is quite engaging with feel good melodies and so will keep you engaged whilst you listen so is great for keeping you aware of your environment and lifting your spirits.

More from Phillip Jons soon.

Check Timescapes out at the Phillip Jons’ artist page here.

Kate Bush, in her most recent album Ariel, about the accidents of an artist’s painting and how those pieces are sometimes the best and most inspirational.

I read somewhere recently a guy just stuffed midi tracks into a DAW and put up instruments and just listened to the results. That’s how he got his inspiration going. I worked on something this morning and found by accident a really nice twist to something.. So it seems to me that it can be fun to just experiment sometimes :O)

I too have felt this when composing. Once I dragged a drum midi file and put it on a lead instrument by mistake and found that the result, albeit quirky, was fun and inspirational.

Composing can be hard to keep up as a professional writer, constantly looking for fresh and new creations. Sometimes the accidents can take you down a road that you never would have thought of consciously to do new things that are not your usual mode of composition and so are exactly that which you are looking for, fresh and new creations.

Ambient Music Garden are proud to announce the inclusion of Mick Cox’s Earth Spirits album into our collection.

Earth Spirits will be useful for therapists in their therapeutic environments and sessions as well as for home listening and relaxation. The album is available now.

Soon to come is each track licensed for a range of business uses under our Royalty Free Production Music License which enables businesses to legally use Mick’s music for dvd and video production and presentation backgrounds for example.

Check out Mick’s album at his artist page at Ambient Music Garden.

Review of Mick’s Earth Spirits album coming soon.

Many people look for copyright free music when they don’t understand what it is they really need for their business project (such as background music for DVD or video productions, background music for presentations).

Musicians rarely create something and give it free for anyone to use in any way whatsoever. They may give away music as part of a wider promotional plan to create earnings from sales these free versions attract, of from earnings for giving permission to use their music in specific ways, which is called licensing. Check out Creative Commons for more details on the most popular way that artists offer up their music. For example, they may offer their music free to listen to only in non commercial situations. But if you want to use their music for a business use then they will want payment for the use of their work.

Musicians are not hard to understand, they just want payment for their hard work. They are passionate people who love what they do. Consider (for example) a bricklayer. He would want, and need payment for his work so he can pay his bills and earn a living. Unless he is doing it for charity or as a hobby.

Royalty free music is music that is offered for sale whilst the artist retains the ownership of his or her music. Royalty free music offers the music to customers with terms that will not need additional payments for usage after purchasing the music in the first place.

Royalty Free music will be sold and therefore licensed for specific uses. For example an artist may only offer you the right to use their music within dvd productions or presentation backgrounds and not for TV broadcasting. The use of their music in certain conditions will also require different fees depending on use. For example to use a piece of work in a major international film will probably be more expensive than using music for wedding background music understandably. Expect the amount of effort and quality of the music production will also be relative, i.e. a musician will probably work on a range of remixes and edits for a film production whilst a piece of music for backgrounds in presentations will be as is.

So, back to copyright.

If you wanted copyright free music you are effectively asking for ownership of a piece of music. Now that’s expensive. Say an artist has taken a week to create a piece of music. He / she is skilled and earns well at their art and so they don’t come that cheap either. How much do you think a piece of music would cost to own? Well some people do actually want to have the exclusive right to a piece of music. Take for example a signature tune. You will probably going to play this a lot. Take for example the Intel signature tune, all 2 seconds of it. Just to own that piece of music outright would have costs tens of thousands of dollars. Had they licensed it, Im sure it would have over time cost a lot more.

But if you just want a piece of music for a specific project, for a given number of production units, within certain boundaries (i.e. time and countries for instance) you wont need it for all the other reasons you would have access to if you owned the copyright. So, its going to be dramatically cheaper to just purchase the right to use the music in this way only, and for no other use. Take that tens of thousands of dollars and knock off approximately three of those zeros and that is the difference.

So, forget looking for copyright free music, cut to the chaise and check out royalty free music for your project today. Go somewhere that has a good collection of the specific genre you are looking for and listen to a good range of pieces from different artists. Develop a dialogue with the music library and ask them as many questions as you need before feeling happy that you will get exactly what you want.

Here at Ambient Music Garden we are ready for you if you are looking for royalty free ambient and downtempo music. We don’t do much else but pride ourselves in the music that we do offer. Please take a look when you have time.

Click here to check out our ambient relaxation, chillout and downtempo music.

In some ways licensing music for backgrounds for voice over’s / guided meditations, visualisations and guided imagery CD recordings is a somewhat sensitive deal for a musician because of the importance & contribution that the music has on the actual end product and the low fee they traditionally gain for selling their music for this use.

Take for example a guided visualisation (or visualization if you are in the US). A therapist or vocalist can create a script to read over a piece of music but for sure there will be long gaps where the music itself is playing.

At Ambient Music Garden, licensing a piece of music for background for voice over audio is covered under our Royalty Free Production Music license.

Each piece of music has a 5000 units of distribution maximum before requiring an additional fee. This is not a total across a range of pieces of music but for every and each piece of music purchased by a customer.

Our 5 minute tracks start at around US$35 each for the mp3 version so the cost is very low when you consider the overall revenue that can be gained from a 5000 unit distribution agreement. For example, US$5,000 can be made from selling these at $1 each so that means the cost of the music is only  0.7% of the total revenue earned. Considering the recording will probably sell for a lot more than a dollar, and considering maybe that a collection of pieces may be sold via the Internet and not have the traditional costs of CD jewell cases and CD production and artwork printing, the profit on a product such as this is remarkably high.

As a therapy recording artist you can conceivably make make tens of thousands of dollars on a production whilst the musician may only make a few hundred dollars from supplying their work to you.

Getting quality music for professional products could not be cheaper and more compelling than this.

Recently I have come across a few things that reminded me about what I admire in an artist.

For me, an artist is someone who is able to keep out the complexities of life and still find space in their mind to notice the wonders of the world.

To have free thought and not be restricted by much that their culture dictates.

To be able to see in things others overlook.

In the article Relaxation And Music Significantly Reduce Patients’ Postoperative Pain Science Daily talks about, “New research has found that relaxation and music, separately or together, significantly reduce patients’ pain following major abdominal surgery.”

What is particularly interesting is that this article was written nine years ago.

So why isn’t ambient relaxation music used more in our health care organisations and within our workplaces?

Much like music in itself, it feels like Brian Eno has been around all the time in the background. Separate from fads and fashion, Brian has been there.

Although saying that he hasn’t been hidden in the shadows. With his success as an international producer he has made himself more famous than his (slightly) more humble other achievements as the keyboard player for Roxy Music and, of course, the leading light of modern ambient music. I say ‘modern’ because ambience as a theme was explored many years before with the likes of (for example) Debussy.

Brian’s early solo work created the first modern ambient albums and his thinking around the use of ambient music as background and unobtrusive has been captured in interviews since then.

However, in my opinion a particular collaboration with David Byrne which resulted in My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts has also given ambient, and electronic music huge inspiration during the past 25 plus years.

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts provided inspirational rhythms and melodies, new fresh approaches to composition as well as using audio recordings from various sources, almost as samples before samples were invented as digital clips to be processed. In the days this album was created they would have engineered the album with tape.

‘Bush’ remains one of my own personal favourite albums of all time as well as my favourite Eno album over and above my own acknowledgement of the importance and significance of Eno’s ambient collections.
 

Music for DVD Video Productions

Music for DVD video productions requires a range of needs depending on the complexity of the production itself. Here at Ambient Music Garden we offer instant download of mp3s for all of our music catalogue. However, upon request many of our music pieces are available in other formats as well.

At the time of writing we are not offering stems for tracks although through our commissioning process (please use our Contact Us page) we will be able to consider and process where the artists chosen is available to complete this sort of work.

Ambient and Relaxation music is perfect for DVD productions because it is emotionally connecting music. Of course any need to have a ‘party’ or upbeat style of presentation in a video will not work with ambient music however for many other uses, Ambient is the better choice to present mood, be that dark or light, be that natural or fantasy. Ambient is great for documentaries, and information DVDs for corporates about new business ventures and new concepts that have to be communicated across an organisation. DVD video productions for corporates can be the most effective way to communicate a message. Seeing a CEO explain the proposition to the organisation can get the message across clearly. Mixing video with subsequent questions and answers with statistics presented via a PowerPoint slide presentation enables much of the ambiguity of a project to become clear.

Using music as a theme tune to a project will evoke a positive emotion towards the project, much like a theme tune. Using the same music within the video and having it in the background of a Powerpoint presentation continues the theme, and creates continuity in the process

Here at Ambient Music Garden we are aware of this need and provide a catelogue of ambient music to meet the different moods and feelings required to support a project. We cateogorise our music in a number of ways to meet the needs of different customers but our royalty free category is not the only way to get royalty free music. Almost all our music is available for business use under the Royalty-Free Production Music License.

Click here to view Ambient Music Garden’s Royalty-Free category. But don’t forget all categories hold royalty-free music, the royalty free category only presents the most popular chosen pieces for business use.

Music for resturants

Creating Ambience is only partly achieved by creating the physical environment of a resturant. Music is required to create that background ambience that is not intrusive yet provides mood and feeling for the resturant.

Engaging music on the other hand will detract from the connection people will have with each other at a restaurant. So it is a challenge to get this right for many today. Traditional music is also not the first choice for many country cuisine restaurant owners. Some now are choosing a style of music that is more in keeping with the tastes of their customers rather than choosing traditional music that does not always appeal the their customer base.

Here at Ambient Music Garden we offer a wide range of ambient relaxation music that is downloadable instantly and can be used via a mp3 player or burnt onto a CD. Using our Royalty-Free Production Music License we allow restaurants to use our music within their premises without additional performance fees that resturant owners will incur over time.

Click here to view Ambient Music Garden’s Royalty-Free category. But don’t forget all categories hold royalty-free music, the royalty free category only presents the most popular chosen pieces for business use.

Music Packaged As Free Gift

I have had a number of customers enquire about using Ambient Music Garden music as a free gift packaged with their own product. The product itself may not be directly connected to the music, as in, its not a DVD production that needs music in the background. What is being proposed is that the piece of music is packaged within a product as an extra incentive for purchasing the product. For instance, a piece of relaxation music packaged with an ebook that focuses on stress. Or, a piece of meditation music packaged with an online course on how to meditate.

Ambient Music Garden has a license that enables this and is called the Royalty Free Production Library Music License. This means a product owner has the permission from the music artist to use their music for redistribution as part of another product. Cds that you buy from shops and mp3s you download from iTunes do not come with that agreement. This does not mean that product owners are allowed to sell your music as a CD compilation or sell the piece of music as their own. It is strictly as part of a package with another product that has a link to the other product in a way that is in the same context.

Ambient Music Garden has a range of categories of ambient relaxation music, all of mp3s for instant download from our store.

Click here to view Ambient Music Garden’s Royalty-Free category. But don’t forget all categories hold royalty-free music, the royalty free category only presents the most popular chosen pieces for business use.

Music for CD Guided Audio Meditations Affirmations

I get regular requests from therapists to enable Ambient Music Garden’s music to be used as background music for audio meditation recordings. Sometimes these therapists want to burn these recordings to Cds and sell these to their customers.

Musicians are often abused by others who will take a piece of music and use it without permission and effectively steal the music and not allow the musician to get paid for their work. Because of the ability to easily copy music from Cds and other places musicians find it hard to make a living and take a risk with their work, each piece can take weeks if not months to complete.

That’s why at Ambient Music Garden we have devised the Royalty Free Product Music Library License. This means that therapists who want to sell their own guided meditations and affirmation creations can do so with quality background music. As long as the CD does not present the music on its own as an instrumental, and has a vocal recorded across the music as the meditation guide, or affirmations, this license will legally work.

Its not easy to get permission to have the legal right to use someone else’s music within your own CD production as it could be seen as reproduction and redistribution at a financial loss of the original artist. At Ambient Music Garden we offer out music under this license for this purpose only and you are assured that through the journeys your CDs take there is no risk to you that your product will be sitting somewhere waiting to bite your butt one day.

Click here to view Ambient Music Garden’s Royalty-Free category. But don’t forget all categories hold royalty-free music, the royalty free category only presents the most popular chosen pieces for business use.

Music for Dance

I recently enjoyed a show where a number of different dance groups presented themes for dancing. Each theme represented a feeling or a natural body of some sort. So for example we had happiness as a feeling, and the planets as natural bodies.

I was struck by the affect that the music had on the whole presentation. The quality of the PA system and the way that the music was mixed in and out and how the dancers synchronised their dancing to match the passion of the music as it flowed.

I also noticed how with some shows it was hard to be drawn into the dance and to understand how it connected to the theme. For example the planets dance I found suffered because the music didn’t have anything that would connect our emotions and give a good feel for planets in motion and circling our sun.

This then made the dance ambiguous to my eyes, I would have thought I would see arcs & rotating shapes within the choreography.

I thought to myself, something ‘spacey’ would do well. If dance companies had a collection of music online that they could just press a button and listen to music from different genres to find something that sounded like it was representing heavenly bodies in motion within our solar system, not quite ‘Star Wars’ theme, but more ambient and longer in length enabling a dance piece to run without needing to have audio edits because the tracks were too short.

Well, that’s exactly what we have here at Ambient Music Garden. You can browse the categories and click to listen to each of the pieces of music ranging from ambient and relaxation, through more meditative music to chillout and downtempo mp3s. All for instant download.

The license we have designed to meet the needs of live shows like this is called the Royalty Free Production Library Music License which means that you have the agreement of the music artist to use their music in a public place and play it to an audience there. Cds that you buy from shops and mp3s you download from iTunes do not come with that agreement.

Click here to view Ambient Music Garden’s Royalty-Free category. But don’t forget all categories hold royalty-free music, the royalty free category only presents the most popular chosen pieces for business use.

Music for Theatres and Shows

Music, particularly ambient music, provides an opportunity to create emotionally engaging drama when connected with the acting of a play.

Ambient music can evoke emotions from sadness and fear to happiness and relaxation. Using Ambient Music Garden’s range of categories drama clubs can browse, listen to and choose to download from a range of different artists and styles.

Using our Royalty-Free Production Music Licence, drama clubs and theatres will be licensed to use this music in public performances as well as interludes.

Click here to view Ambient Music Garden’s Royalty-Free category. But don’t forget all categories hold royalty-free music, the royalty free category only presents the most popular chosen pieces for business use.

Music for Websites and Flash

Music for web sites and also for Flash projects within web sites is a different challenge from the graphical artistic lead design of most web sites.

As new media hits web sites nowadays it is still critical for web designers to create consistency and continue to attract the attention of the visitor. Breaks and interruptions to video feeds are common but yet risk loosing visitors to other sites and attractions at the blink of an eye.

Using compressed mp3 formats does have its challenges with quality but this is a balance with the need to offer a continuously playing piece of music to all the target customer’s bandwidth profiles.

Flash provides a great way to embed mp3s and stream or download them right from the browser. Many websites look to applications outside the browser to play a piece of complimentary music however in this way the site owner looses contact with the customer and hands over the web site’s experience to an additional application. With Flash you are able to keep the continuity.

With Ambient Music Garden music many are of a long enough length that shorter pieces with varying versions of the same piece of music can be presented to the customer depending on where they are within the website’s ‘funnel’.

Additionally, using Ambient Music Garden’s commissioning process (use the Contact Us form on the home page), website owners can have a piece of music created specifically for their website. Added to this, requesting specialist audio engineering skills that Ambient Music Garden has, specially compressed audio that enables a much lower file size for the respective length of track can be achieved via Flash. Flash can be used as a multi-track player that will enable up to eight tracks of audio to play.

Therefore there is a choice of each track to be compressed differently according to what can realistically be achieved. Additionally, repetitive pieces of audio can be looped whilst other pieces of music introduced and faded out. The end result is that the listener will hear a long piece of music at a higher quality than can be achieved through simple streaming of an mp3. This reduces costs as bandwidth requirements are reduced too.

Click here to view Ambient Music Garden’s Royalty-Free category. But don’t forget all categories hold royalty-free music, the royalty free category only presents the most popular chosen pieces for business use.

Wil Wheaton talks about his love for reading whilst using ambient music as background ambience in this article. And why not I say!
Read the article here.

Using Royalty Free Production Library Music Within Your Business Project

Royalty Free Production Library Music is a great and cost effective way to create a professional finish to many business projects from digital media to bricks and mortar.

New retail outlets that want to present a calm and relaxed environment can quickly gain that atmosphere with a piece of relaxation music or a collection collated and downloaded as mp3s to then play within their store.

Not only stores but professional services waiting rooms, galleries and restaurants all benefit from the atmosphere and mood settling that relaxation mp3 downloads create.

As they are royalty free, they are not chargeable once the initial purchase price for the use associated with the licence has been made.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royalty_free

The price, different to simple listening at home, reflects the business use and that the piece of music will be publicly heard by many within a building over time, and also within digital projects over time as well.

Digital projects require ambience as well. Since digital design companies are able to create stunning graphical and video productions for clients there is a powerful need to compliment this visuals with music that matches the feel of the video.

By using a royalty free piece from Ambient Music Garden you will be able to request different formats for use in your editing stage to meet the quality needs of the client.

Music on hold and websites require a higher compressed file for different reasons. Although many telephone networks are now digital, they are still analogue for the last part of the journey to the customer’s office or home. This means that the quality of audio is still at a compromised level compared to all digital networks using fibre optic.

Prices at Ambient Music Garden for purchasing music for business use are dependent on the length of the track. The longer tracks can often give more variations to a track to then use in slightly different ways across a production. Additionally, the length of a piece will mean that it will be able to cover longer productions from end to end without any sound editing required.

Pricing for royalty-free production library music usually starts at around $40 per piece. This is reflects the value that a piece of music will have on a business project.

An artist that is willing to have their work associated with business ventures can use this market to create a career in creating music for business use in an industry where creating a career is nowadays somewhat challenges by the changing purchasing behaviour of consumers and the in ability of record labels to keep up and monetise new market opportunities.

Click here to go to Ambient Music Garden’s most popular royalty free music mp3 download category. But you can also browse all music at Ambient Music Garden and choose the Royalty Free Porduction Library License to use our music in your business project.

Ambient Music Garden has launched a new category to present the most popular music for royalty free use in commercial uses.

“We’ve had some interesting success so far even though we have not publicised our commercial licensing business”, said Guy Lewis, founder of Ambient Music Garden. “Businesses are finding our music catalogue perfect for online browsing and downloading for their own business projects. We have businesses using music for PowerPoint presentation background music, Flash embedded music projects, web sites, background music for retail outlets and also for DVD & CD projects. There are many other uses for music and Ambient Music Garden has geared up for them with the new category.”

“However you don’t have to choose music within the Royalty-free category only, that only presents our most popular music for commercial use. Check out all the categories of Ambient Music Garden as almost all our music is available for commercial licensing as well.”

Click Here To Go To Ambient Music Garden’s Royalty Free Production Music Top Page Here. Don’t forget to check all the other categories for royalty free music for business use. Just change the license option at the bottom of the page to purchase the music for business use.

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Using our Royalty-Free Production Music License you can use our music as background music in powerpoint presentations, in retail, galleries and restaurants, on-hold music, Flash & website music, music for commercials, music for video games, film music, and music for video / dvd production.