Hi! Podington Bear is the nom de plume of me, Chad Crouch. I make instrumental music that I enjoy sharing freely, while seeking exposure and income through licensing. My podcast, Ep 6. Music For Focusing On What You Can Do
Ep 6: Music For Focusing On What You Can Do (with commentary)
Ep 6: Music For Focusing On What You Can Do (music only)
Featuring the tracks "Minor Stretch*", "Wonder Happens", "Rainbow Architecture", "Movin' On Up", "Tollhouse*", "Get Happy Now", "Bass of Hearts", "Slippy"*, "Velcro"*, and "The Pigeon Strut".
*=world premiere
Ep 5: Music For Floating In Space
Ep 5: Music For Floating In Space (with commentary)
Ep 5: Music For Floating In Space (music only)
Featuring "Elipse"*, "Gauze"*, "Floating In The Cubicle", "Backdrop", "Free Radicals", "Repose","Rubber Molecules", "Song For A Pea" and "Hollow Gold".
*=world premiere
Ep. 4: Music for Rightsizing
Ep. 4: Music for Rightsizing (with commentary)
Ep. 4: Music for Rightsizing (music only)
Featuring "Bless", "Enrichment", "Denial", "Dockers", "Sonstiges", "Ember", "Constellation", "Dinky", "Wellness", "Light Touch", "The Path Will Tell", "Simple Song".
Ep 3. Music Made On An iPhone
Ep. 3: Music Made On An iPhone (with commentary)
Ep. 3: Music Made On An iPhone (music only)
Featuring 7 all-new songs created solely on an iPhone with Garageband for iOS.
Ep 2: Music For Simplicity
Ep. 2: Music For Simplicity (with commentary)
Ep. 2: Music For Simplicity (music only)
Featuring all-new songs: "Starling", "Magpie", "Crow", "Osprey", "Corridor", "Forecasting", "Channel 7", "Bated Breath", "Leaves In The Pool", "Colorado", "Dunes, "Tendrils", "Velcro", "Canvas", "Silk", "Cotton"
Season 4 at last! Episode 1: Music For Dusting Yourself Off And Getting Back Up
Ep. 1: Music For Dusting Yourself Off And Getting Back Up (with commentary)
Ep. 1: Music For Dusting Yourself Off And Getting Back Up (music only)
Including the songs: "Por Supuesto"*, "Boot Straps"*, "Gingko Fossil"*, "Moonglow"*, "Dowl"*, "Flitter Key Backwards Beat", "Kicked Out Of The Band", "Skepto" and "Moodswing".
*=world premiere
New album released via the Free Music Archive!
Highly regarded by creative professionals and amateurs, The Free Music Archive is featuring the latest album from Podington Bear on their site. This profile and interview illuminates the decision to release work in this way, and expands on the history of the artist Chad Crouch, known here as Podington Bear.
Why did you use the CC BY-NC license for this project?
It seemed like a reasonable thing to do. It’s like the Velveteen Rabbit: For me the music becomes more real if it’s not just heard, but played with and cared for.
“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.”
“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.
“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.”
The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. The Free Music Archive is directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet.
Every mp3 you discover on The Free Music Archive is pre-cleared for certain types of uses that would otherwise be prohibited by copyright laws that were not designed for the digital era. Everything that Podington Bear has composed and recorded including Egress is available for use under the Creative Common BY-NC (Non-commercial with attribution) license. This includes personal videos, podcasts without advertising, bed music for your pro-bono work for non profit institutions, low-budget films for inclusion in festivals, and so forth. (Basically whenever you [1] make something for free and it [2] does not promote a commercial entity.) For a fast fair commercial license just contact podingtonbear[at]gmail.com.
One Year Late, 3x Larger: The Sound Of Picture Production Library
I'm pleased to finally announce a resource for creative work or entertainment: a 300 piece music collection dubbed The Sound Of Picture Production Library. The entire collection is free for NC-BY Creative Commons personal use and as a tool for producers, directors, game developers, etc.
Visit soundofpicture.com to search and audition individual tracks by mood or instrumentation category, and / or Download the entire 300 cue collection in four parts:
Sound of Picture Production Library Part 1 (~300mb)
Sound of Picture Production Library Part 2 (~300mb)
Ep. 20: Music For Starting Over
Ep. 20: Music For Starting Over (with commentary)
Ep. 20: Music For Starting Over (music only)
Including the songs: "New Life", "Graduation", "Road Trip", "Hot Chip", "The Fall Apart Song", "Acceptance", "New Skin", and "How Far Is Far". Stay tuned for a going away gift next week.
Get the box set (135 full songs on 10 CDs) on sale for only $17.99 from