A freelance composer is a person who works independently and is hired to create and write music for various projects without being employed by a specific company. Full definition
Freelance composers for «Indie» games reported 45 % of music was done under a Work for Hire agreement, while 49 % reported licensing their music to the Indie developer. (gamesoundcon.com)
22 % of freelance composers who delivered music for a game also did some integration, helping put the sounds into the game. (gamesoundcon.com)
Ken «coda» Snyder and Steven «surasshu» Velema are freelance composers who have made a name for themselves in the chiptune and module music tracking scenes for their consistent performance in 1 - hour tracking competitions: timed contests in which composers are given only an hour to compose a full song with a set of randomly chosen samples. (namakoteam.com)