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Behind the music: Mystery of the filesharing windfalls | Helienne Lindvall | Music | guardian.co.ukhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/jul/30/filesharing-music-industry-windfalls (via Instapaper) -----------------------Jonathan Grimes
Musicophilia: Six Questions for Oliver Sacks—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine)http://harpers.org/archive/2009/07/hbc-90005417 "...passive listening has largely replaced active music-making. Now that we can listen to anything we like on our iPods, we have less motivation to go to concerts or churches..." (via Instapaper) -----------------------Jonathan Grimes
(download) Click here to download: VID00089.AVI (8.31 MB)
(download) Click here to download: Botanic_Gardens_-_Dublin.zip (2.87 MB)
http://nicomuhly.com/news/2009/scene-but-not-heard/When is a scene not a scene? This is a composer who knows how to communicate with his audience. My favourite quote from the article has to be, "Michael Gordon looks at me like I’m Brüno every time we meet."
Why? More on how this was created here