A new side project by a local record label is offering affordable, and royalty-free, professional music for video projects.

Rockhill Tracks sells licenses and offers downloads for profesionally performed, professionally mastered 3- to 4-minute songs, plus matching 30-second and 60-second tracks. It’s a subsidiary of Rockhill Records, which last year released a Christmas album by Syracuse, Ind., singer Hannah Bushong.

So far, all the songs offered at Rockhill Tracks have been written and performed by local pianist and composer Jon Swerens, who lives in Fort Wayne, Ind. The songs are mastered by Tim Bushong, a regionally known professional record producer located in Syracuse, Ind.

“I had the vague notion that selling royalty-free licenses for my music would be welcomed by videographers,” Swerens said. “But it took the prodding of my friend Caleb Pike to get me moving.”

Pike, a video professional and creator of popular blog dslrvideoshooter.com, said he often is looking for simple, piano-centric music as background audio for his videos, but such music is difficult to find. He encouraged Swerens to re-edit his piano compositions into particular lengths, such as 30 and 60 seconds, that would be immediately useful for videos.

Most of the songs on the rockhilltracks.com web site are from Swerens’ self-produced album, “Wordlessly.”

One song, “Fanfare in Five,” was written as a proposal for a radio newscast. That project didn’t come to fruition, but maybe it’s just what a videographer or podcaster is looking for.

New songs will be added regularly to the web site.

The track packages, normally $49, are on sale for $39 each until Oct. 31.

Listen to every song in its entirety and download music packages at the web site: www.rockhilltracks.com.

OK, not really “shh.”

But even though there’s still lots of work to do here, the important functions — listening to songs, and paying for them — is up and operational.

So far, three song packages are available:

• “Home Is Where You Are”
• “The Cascades”
• “Fanfare in Five”

The first two songs were written and recorded for an instrumental album I created about five years ago called “Wordlessly.” One of these days, I hope to have all the songs on that album remastered by Tim Bushong, and then I can resell that album as a download.

The third song was written as a proposal for a radio newscast. That didn’t work out, but maybe it’s just what you’re looking for.

Many, many more songs will be posted in the future, but for now, I hope these may be helpful for your online projects. Let me know if you use them; I may feature them on this web site!