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> This is a sum up of emails I recently wrote
> concerning the music score of Valkaama.
> 
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> 
> - Valkaama can have several music scores since we
> have the technical opportunities (welcome to the
> Internet age) and Valkaama is a free project. 
> 
> - If you want to contribute music I would
> recommend that you start from the current Alpha
> version of the movie. The scenes themselves
> won&#8217;t change much. What may happen is that
> additional material will be included to connect
> the dialogue scenes. In that case the music
> between two scenes will have to become a bit
> longer. Major changes will only take place within
> the last 3-4 scenes.
>  
> - If you are a member of a royalities collecting
> society, make sure that your contract allows you
> to license your work yourself, i.e. the respective
> collecting society doesn't own the exclusive
> rights to all of your work (this is the case for
> instance with Germany's GEMA). If the latter is
> the case a collaboration might only be possible in
> a limited way.
> 
> - Concerning the music score a melancholic theme
> would work out best but I am not going to
> interfere by saying "that works", "that
> doesn&#8217;t work". So you can pretty much
> compose the score the way you see it best from
> your artistic point of view. There is only one
> thing to consider: If the music absolutely
> doesn&#8217;t suit the movie (i.e.
> children&#8217;s songs recorded in the
> kindergarten nearby) I won&#8217;t support the
> music score on the webpage. BUT: Great thing is,
> you can still produce a music score like that and
> you can even distribute the movie with it. After
> all, Valkaama is an Open Source Movie. 
> 
> - If you want to make a whole music score on your
> own, just drop me a message so that I know about.
> If you want my opinion, I&#8217;d be happy to
> receive examples from time to time. 
> 
> - If you want to contribute only to a few scenes,
> then please drop me message so I can make sure
> that there won&#8217;t be scenes with 5 different
> music scores and scenes without any music at
> all...
> 
> - I highly encourage you to work together with
> other people who want to contribute music to
> Valkaama (for email addresses please email me).
> There might be a lot of synergies.
> 
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