How to search for a musician, sound designer or singer-songwriter on the web?

SignedA 2020-09-01 17:04:48 UTC #1

Well, I don't know if this is the right place to ask my question, but I still take my chance. You will tell me afterwards if I was wrong to do that.

So here is my question: If one day I need someone who knows about sound (music or / and sound effects etc.*) on an audiovisual project, like an animated short film or a video game, where to go to find this person? Wich website can makes it easier meeting involving particular and musician ? Would it be possible to try to have a fairly successful project that would convince the other party to work on an unpaid project? Even this I guess for this one, there's a good chance the answer is no.

And I thought about YouTube, there are some talented musician on the platform, but I think I would have to be part of their community to even be able to discover them, because otherwise it seems mission impossible. Only the best or the smartest come first in the search bar.

*That he or she is both skills would be great, but this must be rare, so a single skill would be sufficient.

ar-ninetysix 2020-09-01 18:03:58 UTC #2

Well, you can always go look up people who work in audio and music on Fiverr. Far as I know this is an easy place to navigate and search for people working in specific fields. It's not free, but there's people that are incredibly generous with their services and prices as well as professionals who know exactly what they're doing. You'd really be getting your money's worth on there, I feel. I haven't used the site, but I plan to sometime in the future.
https://www.fiverr.com/categories/music-audio?source=category_tree

If you're really strapped for cash, you could also look on the Newgrounds forums. You might find people willing to work without being paid there. I can't tell you whether or not collabs are successful over there, I haven't really used the site in years, but I know there's a bunch of creators on there.
https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/forum/19/1

As for as YouTube goes, maybe you could look up demo reels for singers, composers, sound designers and just try to contact them if their information's available?? This would be my last resort though, going around and looking for help like that is just seems kinda.. desperate? Not a good look imo lol

You'd be right. Even if there are people that could be swayed into working with you for free, the project has to be able to stand on its own before they might even consider taking on the job. Real talk, audio is only complementary and the work that goes into it is unreal sometimes for what comes out of it. But if that stuff reeeally matters that much to you, it's never too late to find ways to do the work yourself without paying anything.

Legendofgenii 2020-09-01 18:52:30 UTC #3

Linkedin maybe a good place to look?

SignedA 2020-09-01 19:12:45 UTC #4

Linkedin? I never thought about it, but maybe there are people there.

But otherwise, I observed that every time a YouTuber does some music, in their description you can see links to websites where you can buy (or download for free?) Their music. And these are often the same, like Spotify, iTunes (this one is the professional artists who use it the most, I think), Soundcloud and sometimes bandcamp or deezer (and like iTune, professionals are more inclined to use these two. last).

Finally, all of this to say that I will try to check those out too.