aworks five-star links and tracks :: december 1, 2008

YouTube in San Bruno

• YouTube: We invite musicians from around the world to audition for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. San Bruno, California finally gets some culture...
• World's most unanswered music questions: Why do we get bored of a piece of music after many listens?  :: Just today I was pondering a variant of this one - how come I didn't like DJ Spooky's Necropolis the second time I heard it after really enjoying it the first?
• Coolfer: Borders Profit Drops, Music Inventory Down 30%
• This month on Counterstream Radio, we present highlights of Fresh Ink, a new music radio program produced for WCNY-FM, Syracuse, New York, by the Society for New Music.  
• Dusted Reviews: No matter how you look at it, The Mill Pond is not a peak of John Fahey’s career. Quite the contrary, it was conceived to break with a past that the guitarist had come to find quite onerous.