I'm always grateful to folks who use my music in videos. I like the variety of uses, from a baby sling promo to nature photography to time-lapse of clouds to a chat about Harry Potter.

Here some good folks in New Mexico use a number of my songs in the soundtrack to a horror short. The film is appropriately creepy:

I'm very committed to sharing music, and letting people know about Creative Commons music. I created the first episode of a podcast, Onyx Inertia, to spotlight the music of ccmixter.org

Onyx Inertia Episode 1 by Gurdonark on Mixcloud

I suppose life cannot all be about my music. I'd rather life be more about kindness.
Here is an animated film I made called "Let Us Be Kind". The words are by a 19th Century American minister named W. Lomax Childress. The music is by magnatune.com artist Lisa DeBenedictis. I did the animation and the narration.

Let Us Be Kind from Gurdonark on Vimeo.

Poem: W. Lomax Childress, 19th Century, public domain.
Images, animation and narration: Gurdonark.
Music by Lisa DeBenedictis

The Headphonica netlabel released Ergo Phizmiz's "Faust Cycle". Subsequently, other artists were invited to do remixes of this multi-hour work. My remix, "To See the Doctor", appears on the resulting compilation album. As is my way, I put the samples from the original into my software synthesizer and created a new song. I also used the vocal sample from the original for my narrator.

Here is my 2009 EP "Seven Virtues":

Free music for professional licensing

I chose to release this via Jamendo and via last.fm to experiment with how much traffic I would get from this mechanism for release. I've been pleased with the way that the songs have gotten play through this non-net-label form of release.

It's free to share, to use, to add to a soundtrack, to put in a website or game, with attribution to Gurdonark and citation to www.gurdonark.com.


gurdonark by Gurdonark is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

The netlabel Classwar Karaoke released its compilation "Classwar Karaoke 12". My song "Berries" is on the release;



On the prior volume 11 compilation, my song "Sadness" appears:



On the volume 10 compilation, my song "Walk through Trees" appears:

On July 24, 2010, Gurdonark released a collection of images and songs called "Butterflies of North Texas". The collection has its own weblog, located at

Fluttersongs

In keeping with the title, each image and each song is about a butterfly found in north Texas.



The Gulf Fritillary, pictured above, lacks a song of its own. This is a thing to ponder, as it's lovely enough to deserve a sonata.