Free to use music for community by NXXXIO
Hello, I am NXXXIO, a music composer with 6 years of experience. Not long ago I was invited to Polkadot/Kusama ecosystem and had multiple collabs since then.
I really love the ecosystem so far and want to contribute some of my music to be used by anyone in community in their projects, games, presentations, videos etc.
I think last time I made a tip request it wasn't noticed, so I want to make a discussion first. I believe it would help many Dotsama creators, artists and developers to save time and money when creating content.
Please let me know if this is helpful/needed here! If this initiative can be funded with treasury, I can create more free to use music in different genres to fit all needs of the community.
These are the five tracks I am able to share right now:
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City Vibes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2EVY5ES70w
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Night Sky Coffee - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2zyHM8zf-w
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Unknown Fate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhd3N6yvBP8
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Falling Star - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSUUNKhL3QA
Comments (3)
These are really great and it's awesome that you are offering them up for free for dotsama to use! Definitely deserves a good tip in my opinion.
I hope I remember these when I make my next video production! This is perfect tutorial background music!
I actually have extensive experience in music and some experience making electronic beats, mixing, and mastering tracks. These tracks have excellent variety in themes (not repetitive), they are mixed well, and are quite tasteful. I even listened to them using my studio quality headphones plugged into my DAC amplifier, so I was really able to judge them well.
Having commissioned beats before and after looking at lofi beats on fiverr, I'd say beats of this quality usually run $20-$40 per. So I'd say the tip should be ~7 KSM at current prices.
I'd be happy to propose the tip for you after the v0935 upgrade.
However, I don't know how the community would feel about funding an initiative like this in one of the spender tracks. I say, why not! The treasury has plenty of KSM and it'd be nice to have a big library of lofi music for the ecosystem to use in their videos or at events as background music. Maybe put together a proposal for like 50 of these for ~50 KSM or whatever is reasonably fair. Outline how much time it'll take you and when we can expect to see them done. Also, youtube isn't the best place to share music because youtube doesn't let you download videos. Share it on Soundcloud or maybe make a public google drive with the full quality .wav files.
The only concern I have about funding something like this is that it might attract hundreds of music creators begging for tips and funds to pump out more music than we'd ever need... Also, if it's just out there for all the public, is it really for dotsama?
Regardless, thank you for your musical gift to the ecosystem!
Thank you a lot for the feedback and tips! A treasury proposal idea sounds good if community approves it, I will probably go that way. Regarding public access, I'm not really sure how else to keep open access of Polkadot community, maybe there is some way to require a wallet sign up to access music?