Here’s a Spotify playlist featuring many of the tracks that the TED Radio Hour has used in recent episodes, appearing both on the show and their underwriting messages:
The latest episode of Invisibilia, Flip The Script, builds on their excellent run of episodes in Season 2. This particular episode also features a preponderance of my music for its score. As a fan of the show, I’m thrilled about it.
Here’s a Spotify playlist featuring many of the tracks, and some others that have appeared both on the show and underscore for their underwriting messages:
I’ll try to update the playlist as I recognize tracks in past and future episodes.
Have you ever been listening to a podcast and wondered what is that music?
The new season of the TED Radio Hour features healthy doses of The Sound of Picture Library from yours truly, Podington Bear. Also Invisibilia, Embedded, Radio Diaries, Criminal and many more. 2016 is turning out to be a watershed year for Podington Bear on podcasts.
Here’s a playlist I made of This American Life Favorites. (Stay tuned for more new playlists from other podcasts):
And here’s an incomplete list of podcasts that have featured my music:
This American Life
Radiolab
TED Radio Hour
99% Invisible
Planet Money
Freakonomics
Radio Diaries
Storycorps
How To Be Amazing with Michael Ian Black
Wiretap
Criminal
Breasts
Lore
True Story
Home: Stories From LA
The Adaptors
Anxious Machine
Neighbors
SuperThank
First Day Back
Everything Sounds
Your Dreams My Nightmares
Vox Tablet
How To Be A Girl
Boombox
Anecdotal
Bandwagon
IRE Podcast
Evolution Talk
The Arcade
Listen to the interview, which covers my history as music creator, Creative Commons adherent, and Free Music Archive contributor here:
Correction:
In the interview I discuss my first exposure to the concept of Creative Commons, an article in Wired Magazine. My memory that the creator of Creative Commons had ties to Wired was wrong. (Perhaps I was crossing my wires with the “long tail” concept.) Anyway, Creative Commons did get an awareness boost from a cover article in a 2004 edition of Wired that also featured a CD of artists (The Beastie Boys, David Byrne…) willing to have their works remixed within the new Creative Commons legal framework.
Creative Commons was founded in 2001 by law professor Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Eric Eldred to address a problem created by antiquated copyright laws in the U.S. and around the world. In an era where it was becoming easier to share works via the Internet, copyright law seemed to be moving in the other direction by increasing term limits and restrictions on reuse.
Visit soundofpicture.com for the full scoop.
On the show this week, after the prologue:
Find this and almost 500 more great tracks to use in your creative work at soundofpicture.com!
Sound of Picture Production Library Part 1 (700mb zip folder)
Sound of Picture Production Library Part 2 (700mb zip folder)
Sound of Picture Production Library Part 3 (800mb zip folder)
The Production Library features 500 instrumental cues (songs) sorted by keywords from Podington Bear. They are free to use for non-commercial works, and easily licensed for commercial uses. Find out more at soundofpicture.com.
Smaller collections:
Podington Bear could be heard on a great episode of This American Life this week:
These are the cuts that can be heard.
From the hit factory publisher of Angry Birds, a new iOS game hit the market just yesterday, featuring a soundtrack from Podington Bear!
Swing King!
“If you like physics-based puzzle games, this is one that is well worth your time, as it features fun gameplay, beautiful visuals, and a fantastic soundtrack” – TouchGen.net
I’m excited for opportunity for a lot of new people to hear my songs while enjoying such a gorgeous, and whimsical game that is both familiar and fresh in its gameplay. Check it out in the iTunes App Store and if you like it, tell a friend!
As heard on TAL at the end of act six. “It’s almost as if the sleeping is that much sweeter when you have to get up, or you think you have to get up, and then you don’t.”
