Meditation again

One of my friends is thinking of doing some music to put up on Jamendo. He plays guitar and can compose electronic music using loops etc. Can't play the sitar though ... sob... lol!!! He's thinking of trying to compose some nice meditation music with guitar and sounds of the sea and lulled voices .. may even do a guided meditation.

Any musician can upload their own work to Jamendo for us to download for free. They don't charge the musicians for the service nor do they charge if you're just downloading mp3s for personal use. Though, of course you can buy a physical cd if you want to and/or donate to the musicians. You do have to pay if you want to use the music commercially which is only fair. You then have to buy a licence. It's if you want to use the music in a commercial video or an advert or in a shop or something like that. Of course you can only upload if you're not under a contract with a recording company that says you can't and only if all people who have rights to the music agree.


This tells you all about jamendo and the rights of the musicians

http://www.jamendo.com/en/faq

and how to upload your music if you want to.



Talking about him reminds me the BBC have some guided meditations to listen to. They're just streaming but if you have a tape recorder you can record your own guided meditations taking you where you want to go and play it at the same time as some relaxing music if you want music playing while you're meditating. Maybe you could record a meditation about hearing the tranquil waves lapping up on the beach with every wave making you feel more relaxed and how sinking slightly into the warm sand is helping ease any tight muscles etc, etc .

http://www.bbc.co.uk/headroom/newsandevents/meditation.shtml

and they link to this Buddhist site from the BBC site where there are free meditations to download if you're interested Right click on link to download. Left click to play on line.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/buddhism/customs/meditation_1.shtml

to

http://www.buddhanet.net/audio-meditation.htm

The BBC on meditation from a Hindu perspective

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/ritesrituals/meditation_1.shtml

If I remember rightly Sri Chinmoy has some meditation music up on the web that he lets you download for free .. most of it won't play on WMP though because of the format it's in .. mp4??

There's a tv programme from the happiness show about meditation too .. saw it in the Creative Commons site .. the internet archives .. the channel lets you download all the programmes they made for free.

See if I can find it

http://www.archive.org/details/THS_135_HappinessAndMindfulnessMeditation_mpg

and at their own site

http://www.thehappinessshow.com/

it's number 135