▶ Björk Announces Utopia Box Set With 14 Handmade Birdcall Flutes for um… £500!
Think I’ll just have to make do with the video…

▶ Litigous wankers Spotify, Google, Pandora, Amazon appeal calls songwriter royalty rates ‘arbitrary’ and ‘capricious’

▶ Spotify killed the CD star: How has streaming impacted the music industry?

▶ “I’ve been listening to fish squawks, burble and pops for nearly 30 years now, and they still amaze me with their variety…” – Fish recorded singing dawn chorus

▶ Guppy Conquerors: The Joy Of Cod Reggae
via metafilter (had never heard of this term before!)

▶ wow gorgeous: BYRNE’S EUCLID: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid
A reproduction of Oliver Byrne’s celebrated work from 1847 plus interactive diagrams, cross references, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux…. Making of here

▶ when field recording goes wrong… very very wrong:
French musician Julien Gauthier killed by a bear in Canada

▶ hmmmmmmmm… pop will eat itself?