Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive
It’s not often that I get really excited about a dance website, but this is one HUGE mother of an exception. Launched today (I think) the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive…
Francophone music criticism online
Francophone Music Criticism is an online collection of just that, from the period 1789-1914. Lots of stuff very well organized and all searchable and browsable. Because of the period and…
RIP the Loudness War – apparently
Interesting article from Mix, proclaiming the end of the loudness war, Mastering engineers often aim to make songs sound louder because louder equals ‘better’ when you’re fighting for listeners. Radio…
In praise of the book…and the pencil
I think I could become a fan of Google’s new Think Quarterly. My favourite bit so far is from Guy Laurence, CEO of Vodafone UK, telling a cautionary joke about…
Make money from music? Go on tour.
Interesting article from ArsTechnica Did file-sharing cause recording industry collapse? Economists say no. Researchers from LSE have looked at some of the claims about the negative effects of file sharing…
Copyright, downloading and the Digital Economy Act
After all those scary tales of people being fined gazillions of pounds for downloading music illegally, here’s a rather more enjoyable tale of how a judge threw the book at…