Why Be Free?
Every now and then someone will ask me “Why don’t you start charging for your music?”
It’s a reasonable question. With so many articles recently focusing on the death of the music industry it is only natural that there is a link in peoples mind between music and industry.
While I respect that many have chosen to make music their career I have been provided many opportunities by making my music freely available for non-commercial use. Within the past year my music has started to show up in all manner of short films and art projects, No Parades has cut up my beats and reused them for live performance, dance companies have used my pieces in performance. None of this would have been possible under the strict control of copyright.
There is something magical about the fact that the beats I have programmed on lunch breaks have now embedded themselves into other projects across the internet. That is worth more to me than anything else.
Thanks internet.
Below are some favorite pieces I have found my material used in: