www.scottbuckley.com.au features a small library of original cinematic music, ideal for use indie filmmaking, game design & media projects.
Creative Commons means music on this site can be used for free, as long as your project is non-commercial.
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Another uplifting orchestral cue, featuring synths and percussion.
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An uplifting cinematic orchestral cue, featuring ethnic winds, vocals, percussion and strings.
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An aggressive rock-tronica track, featuring riffing guitars, and driving drums and synths.
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A dark rock track, featuring moody electric guitars, driving drums & subtle distorted synths.
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A folky tune featuring acoustic guitar, ukulele, and well, pretty much anything I could find lying around.
I’m a big fan of machinima. It’s got everything going for it – awesome fantasy worlds to play with, ready made for filmmakers to go for broke.
Over the last few years, Halo has definately become one of the defining games for creating machinima, with series liked ‘Red vs Blue’ by Rooster Teeth really bringing the game engine to the fore.
I got an email this morning from ‘Zim’, who goes by krotoflik on YouTube. He gave me a link to his latest work – a halo machinima which features live action… something which I don’t believe I’ve seen before in machinima.
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When I listened to some CD by a guy named John Williams all those years ago, I didn’t expect to end up here. Really, I’m not sure where here is, but it’s here. Right here, in the Biological Sciences library, studying to become a scientist at the University of Queensland.
That CD I bought off my friend Aaron all those years ago was Star Wars: Episode IV. I memorised the entire two-disc set, and can still hum the whole thing off by heart (noone ever asks me to do it at parties, for some strange reason). That sent me on a huge whirlwind musical excursion, that made me obsessed with all things MIDI and film, and all I wanted to be when I grew up was a film composer. It has seen me to LA and back, and has seen my music used in all sorts of things; from games to feature films, to film trailers and TV advertising.
With the success I’ve had, and the skill’s I’ve acquired, you’d think I’d be pretty determined to continue… to get my name in lights, so to speak.
But no. Music as a job is fraught with danger, my friends; amongst a multitude, the danger of hating music. With a fiery passion.
I was at that point for a while – I couldn’t touch a keyboard without hating what came out. Something like that makes you really think about the reasons why you get involved with music… why you put yourself through the pain of trying to be creative if you hate what you are creating.
So, here I am, typing at the library at uni, studying to become a scientist. No more pressure to write music I hate, or even to write at all.
But I’ve gotta tell ya – I haven’t hated what I’ve been creating lately…
-s
Q. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? ARE YOU STILL GONNA WRITE MUSIC?
A. Hell yes! This time around though, I’m hoping to make all my music accessible to indy film and game makers – my aim is to make a sort of free production music library for use in non-commercial productions. I want my music used – and I don’t really care by whom or in what, as long as I know about it. I’ve gotta write about something on this site, don’t I?
Stay tuned for some new music coming soon. Quite alot of it, actually… 
-s
The inevitability of putting your own music up on the net for people to use for free (under certain conditions), is that people eventually use your music in something. It happens reasonably frequently, so I’ve decided: If you’ve got a project that uses my music – tell me and I’ll post about it.
Sites like
YouTube and Vimeo have given filmmakers the world over the chance to showcase their filmmaking abilities to the masses. But I gotta tell ya folks, there are plenty of you out there that illegally use music in the process. Here’s a few reasons why you should acquire music for your next project ‘legally’.
There are alot of people out there who write music for films and games. But there is a reason for it – it’s fun! Short of giving away trade secrets, I’ll give you a few pointers on what to look out for when writing your next cue for that amazing feature film you’re working on…
I’ve just released a new track called ‘Forever Sky’, which I have added to the Music page.
Something different, it’s in the style of that ambient-style, feel-good pop/rock stuff. It makes good use of my Danelectro electric guitar I reclaimed after my time away; it’s retro green-colour really adds to things.
