links for 2008-05-08

• Charles Hazlewood is plotting to take classical music where it's never gone before. Will Hodgkinson tracks down the evangelical conductor | Classical and opera | guardian.co.uk Music
  "Music has been a Gypsy whore since the beginning of time, travelling and cross-fertilising and migrating... Ultimately, musical truth is musical truth - whether that is Black Sabbath or Beethoven."
  (tags: music charleshazelwood authenticity)
• Scribbles for a sonic revolution | News | guardian.co.uk Music
  "Over its two-hour-plus span, you will hear the cracking of notes and desperate breathing, as well as sudden, terrifying fanfares and unimaginably beautiful floated sound. This is sound as extremity, with no narrative action to help."
  (tags: music prometeo luiginono)
• Five Ways to Boost Creativity or Kill it Altogether | Slow Leadership
  "Fast, efficient, focused, and systematic. Have you heard that somewhere before? Macho management is all of those things - plus short-term, demanding, narrow-minded, and simplistic. Can it produce creativity? I don't see how."
  (tags: creativity management leadership)
• plus six > soundamus - native to a web of musical data
  "I think the most impressive thing about soundamus is that it's so light-weight that it's hardly even there... it just occupies a quiet little slot in your RSS Reader, or whatever you want to do with it."
  (tags: music soundamus plussix mashup lastfm)

Posted by Hg on Thursday 08 May 2008 at 23:34.
Received 0 comments so far.