Rolling Out New Music

I just got approval for several new tracks yesterday at Pond5. If you follow my Twitter feed, you may have seen the videos going up to YouTube as I uploaded them. I'll be featuring them and my updated new music collection on the feed today. One of the new tracks I'm promoting today is another "ambient mindfulness" loop.

This is yet another addition to my collection of ambient music cuts, which has grown pretty large and diverse of late. You can find all the new tracks in my new music tracks collection at Pond5.

I'm excited also to be introducing a new collection this week, targeted to a very specific market. More about that tomorrow.

What's Coming Up: Week of January 30, 2017

I hope everyone had an enjoyable weekend. I have a couple of sales to plug at the beginning of this week. Interestingly, one of them was a Christmas track, which I didn't expect this long after the holidays. I'm grateful anyway. Thank you, buyer, for choosing my work. May my 60-second brass arrangement of "Deck the Halls" serve you well.

I'm also excited that someone snapped up my new royalty-free track Ambient Mindfulness Loop last week. I have a similar track awaiting curation and hope to start work on a third one this week (if not today). Thanks for licensing my work. For a preview of this track, check the video immediately below.

On my Twitter feed, I plan to feature various areas of my portfolio. I'll probably do some more promotion of my "romantic" collection since Valentine's Day is closing in. Meanwhile, I might also promote some of the more ominous-sounding stuff and drone soundscapes, what with all the fear over President Trump.

Meanwhile, I have several new tracks in the curation pipeline at Pond5, most of which focus on a very specific niche: podcast intros. I'm planning a variety of tracks in very short lengths (8-25 seconds), designed for corporate, tech, and lifestyle podcasts and vlogs. I've also created a collection that will focus on podcast intros and plan to roll it out on Twitter and Google+ once I have approved content to promote. Stay tuned for more.

Finally, an update on my "experiment" with feel good music. The track I had created based Dr. Jacob Jolij's formula for determining whether music is "feel good" has not sold at AudioJungle. This does not mean the concept isn't sound. It could simply be that there is no interest in that style for production music applications, or there could be something seasonal that influences interest in this kind of music (it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere), or something else going on. (For example, sales over there are really slow.)

I had gotten into the habit of posting every day here, but I may trim that back, so if you don't see anything on a given day when you stop by, please don't despair. I do appreciate everyone who takes the time to stop by for updates, and I do intend to continue my "what's coming up" posts either on Sunday evening or Monday morning Eastern (U. S.) time.

May your week to come be filled with music.

Romantic and Exotic for Valentine's Day

Once again today, I'll be featuring royalty-free stock music tracks from my Romantic collection. You can see them in my Twitter feed here on the blog or on Twitter. Some of these are sort of exotic:

Others are more retro. All are worthy of consideration for your Valentine's Day video.

I hope you'll check them all out and stop back often for updates here.

Time to be Grateful

I thought I'd take some time from my usual pattern of promoting my work to stop and express gratitude. I'm grateful to all the people who have listened to the new stock music I've released this week at Pond5 and AudioJungle. I hope you'll find something that works for whatever project you're working on at the moment. I'm also grateful to those of you who have licensed my work in the past, or who have simply stopped by to read my updates.

Meanwhile, I do have some work in process that I hope to be able to share soon. One of the areas I'm looking at is podcasts. Not mine, yours. Stop by for updates.

Going Positive Today

I think today, instead of focusing on a specific collection in my Twitter feed, I want to highlight some tracks that are positive or happy. Most stock music web sites push specific genres most of the time, like corporate, ambient, and cinematic (which is why I do that too). But sales are not going very well at the moment, so I figure I might as well have some fun with it.

Everything I'll be tweeting today is available royalty-free for your posivibe media projects, so I hope you'll check them out and find one to license for your next video. That includes my latest at AudioJungle, Driving Uplifting Rock.