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Originally Posted by BenFranske

An alternative idea might be to get a local band to come in and you could record them yourself for use during pre-show, intermission, etc. In exchange you could give them a copy of the recording which they could sell, use as a demo, etc. or you could buy them all dinner or maybe you could put a tag in the program credits about pre-show music provided by... Just some ideas. Personally, I'd be a lot happier with a local acoustic musician or jazz band doing some custom recordings for me than the canned royalty free stuff which sounds...well...canned to me.

Yeah live is of course always better. But then you have to pay for the rights to the music itself. Plus you may have to hire the band as well which can get mighty expensive. We also have a digital music program on campus with people who can do custom work for us.

But the point of this is to have have a collection of music on hand that I can use for teaching sound design and also having the ability to legally hassle free use that music in a real show.