How Music Works
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.91 (945 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0857862529 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 349 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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--Neal Thompson. Best Books of the Month, September 2012: It's no surprise that David Byrne knows his music. What is surprising is how well his voice translates to the page. As the creative force behind Talking Heads and many solo and collaborative ventures, he's been writing, playing, and recording music for decades. In this wide-ranging, occasionally autobiographical analysis of the evolution and inner workings of the music industry, Byrne explores his own deep curiosity about the "patterns in how music is written, recorded, distributed, and received." He is an opinionated and well-educated tour guide, and the resulting essays--on topics from rockers' clothes to the role of the turntable, concert
Terrific book for music lovers and content creators alike This is David Byrne week for me. On Sunday, I caught the sensational David Byrne and St. Vincent show at the Orpheum Theater in Boston. The last time I saw Byrne live was when I caught the Talking Heads on August 19, 1983 at the old Forrest Hills Tennis Stadium in New York City. So, clearly I was already a Byrne fan.How Music WorksThe other part of David Byrne week is his fabulous new book How Music Works. The book is Byrne's take on the industry he's succeeded in. He offers keen observations about the music industry, the art of making music, telling stories in the book using a. Musical Musings: A Hodge-Podge Dr. Debra Jan Bibel Byrne begins his wide-ranging historical, technological, psychological and sociological examination of music with a novel insight: architecture of musical venues shape composition and instrumental arrangements. Regarding huge gothic cathedrals, intimate nightclubs, and jungle camp sites, room reverberation, volume of space, and audience vocal ambience dictate modal versus scale works, instrument development, and performance dynamics. The great revolutionary divide was recording technology, and musicians discovered that what works live does not necesarily achieve the same result. My Favorite Book of 2012 It would be difficult to praise this book too much.Clearly at age 60 David Byrne has had a lot of experience in the world of music and has had a lot of time to think about it and he has graciously decided to share his thoughts here.The book starts out as a sort of anthropological look at music in general, then continues as he explains how the actual space in which the music is created (a small tavern, a concert hall, or a forest, for example) influences what type of music is produced. Or how technology changes and influences music.There is quite a bit of musical autobiography h
It seems the will only triumphs if the context is amenable, just as in Darwinian adaptation. How Music Works is an unparalleled account of a life in music and an explanation of how and why music works from one of the world's most accomplished performers. What we hear is determined by what we want to hear, by what can be heard, and by the circumstances that allow it to come into being.". In this extraordinary book Byrne explores why the past matters and what the future might bring. With his albums for Talking Heads, his work with Brian Eno or his solo output, David Byrne has been consistently at the forefront of musical - and artistic - innovation. From personal accounts of devising and performing his most famous work, to an exploration of the possibilities of new technologies, Byrne discovers that artistic creation is less about an internal creative spark than we thought and more about external factors such as history, architecture and technology. "The universe of music follows broad and basic evolutionary patterns-as does birdsong, to take one example