Submit High Holiday Music
Submitting Original Music for High Holidays 2020/5781
Thank you for your interest in sharing your music for the High Holidays this year. Here’s the information you’ll need to submit:
- The Submit High Holiday Music link below is where to submit your work.
- We’re looking for original compositions that you’ve created, whose copyright belongs to you or to someone who has authorized you to submit the work here.
- Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis, and will close August 31, 2020.
- We’re unable to accept audio or video files directly. Instead, please upload your creation either to SoundCloud (audio) or Vimeo (video), and set up permissions that let us embed the player in our site. Details on how to do that are below.
- If your composition contains original lyrics, please submit them in type written format in the Submisson Link.
- If your text is traditional liturgy from the Mahzor or elsewhere, it would be very helpful if you could provide a citation in the Submission Link.
- If you submit video, we encourage you to caption the video - see Vimeo Captions, below, for how to do this.
Thank you! We look forward to sharing your creativity with the world.
Soundcloud Instructions (for audio files)
You will need:
- A high-quality audio file of your track
- Square cover art for the track, if available
- A profile image for yourself or your band, if available
Steps:
- If you don’t already have a SoundCloud account, sign up for free by going to Soundcloud.com and clicking on the Create Account button.
- Upload your track and make it public.
- Add your cover art to the track, if available.
- In the Basic tab for the track, fill out the Title and Description fields
- In the Metadata tab, fill out any relevant fields (publication date, copyright information, etc.)
- In the Permissions date, make sure to turn on at least the following - this is necessary so that your track can be embedded on our site:
- Display Embed Code
- Offline Listening
- Enable App Playback
- Save your changes.
- Choose “Share” for your track – the URL it displays is what you need to submit to us. It will look something like “https://soundcloud.com/accountname/songname”.
- Submit all of your information, including the the URL, at this Submission Link.
- If you are submitting more than one work, please use the Submission Link once for each one of your works.
Vimeo Instructions (for video files)
You will need:
- A high-quality video file of your performance
- A profile image for yourself, if available
- Cover art to be displayed before the video plays, if available. (Vimeo can also just use a frame your video in lieu of a separate cover image.)
Steps:
- If you don’t already have one, join Vimeo at this link and select the Basic plan, ignoring the paid options.
- Upload your video.
- Under settings for your video, set the following:
- General > Info
- Enter title and description
- Choose a thumbnail image from the video or upload your own cover image.
- General > Privacy
- Change “Who can watch” to “Anyone”
- Change “Where can this be embedded” to “Anywhere”
- Save your changes.
- General > Info
- Go the the video and copy the URL to submit to us. It will look something like “https://vimeo.com/12345678”
- Submit all of your information, including the the URL, at this Submission Link.
- If you are submitting more than one work, please use the Submission Link once for each one of your works.
Vimeo Captions
There is information on creating closed captions for your video here: https://vimeo.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/224968828-Captions-and-subtitles
It’s also possible for your video producer to “burn” (permanently embed) captions into the video file before uploading it to Vimeo. The disadvantage of “burned” captions is they become an integral part of the video, and can’t be turned off.
