Dust Off That Synthesizer!
Bring out the Moog, and prepare your Theremin!
Or, maybe it’s a banjo and some cowbell… hell, I don’t care.
I’m just looking for original science-y music for the This Week in Science 2010 Compilation Album.
The guidelines are that it needs to be about science or inspired by science AND YOU MUST BE ABLE TO GRANT ME LICENSE TO USE IT.
I don’t want something by Blackalicious unless you are in Blackalicious. That said, if you are a friend ofBlackalicious, tell them to get in touch with me.
Why am I making a science-y music album? Well, I’ve made an album for our home radio station’s annual fundraiser each year for the past four years, and I’d like to go for a fifth.
Our station, KDVS 90.3 FM in Davis, is a non-commercial, free-form radio station that gets more than half of its budget from its annual fundraiser. We set aside a portion of the limited cd pressing for use as premium gifts for people who donate to KDVS during our show. The remainder of the cds are sold later in the year in order to recoup our production costs. TWIS makes no money from these albums.
What we need, however, are super cool science-y songs donated for use on the album. Without songs, there is no album.
As a musician what do you get in return? Well, in addition to being on the album, you will be played during TWIS repeatedly during the year, linked to from the TWIS website, and get the warm-fuzzies from helping to support free-form, non-commercial radio and science all in one go.
How can you submit a song? Email me (kirsten at thisweekinscience dot com) with an mp3 or a link to an mp3 of your song(s). Please, put TWIS Compilation in the subject.
If your song is chosen for the album, I’ll be in touch to ask for a higher bit-rate, uncompressed .aif or .wav file and your John Hancock on a basic licensing and use agreement. We like to take care of a lot of the post-production when we master the album, so the less compressed / produced on the final version the better.
Any questions, just email me at the address above.
Oh, and the fundraiser is mid-April, so I’ll need songs asap! Submission deadline is March 15th.
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I would just like to say that I sincerely hope my friend Three Ninja’s track makes it onto the CD. It would make him, and me, very happy:D
Looking forward to the album!
Have you asked George Hrab? Be tactful though; most of the music folks I’ve known have been extremely generous people, but folks have to ask nicely because it is a huge favor and “no” means “no” – not necessarily never, but definitely “not right now or in the immediate future”. Did I mention that music folk can be very sensitive about how you ask them?