This segment was produced by The Current's Peter Mitton. And as always if you missed anything on The Current, grab a podcast. David Byrne was in our New York City studio.Īre you a Talking Heads fan? What are your thoughts on David Byrne's criticism of streaming music services? How Music Works has just been released in paperback. No matter how dedicated or casual a music fan you are, David Byrne's insights into the inner world of music and creativity are likely to make you listen to music in a different way. Find out what is on David Byrne's playlist Drawing on a lifetime of music-making as an amateur, professional, performer, producer, band member and solo artist, Byrne (Bicycle Diaries, 2009) tackles the. He discusses the form and influence of music in a non-linear narrative fashion, using a variety of experiences from his career to create something part autobiography and part music theory.

He asks: Does the venue make the music From outdoor drumming to Wagnerian operas. Not a rock 'n roll memoir, but something like a treatise. David Byrnes impressive output over the past four decades reaches far beyond his work as a musician, most famously in Talking Heads and in numerous solo albums and collaborations. How Music Works is a non-fiction book by David Byrne, a musician, composer, and writer best known for his work with the group Talking Heads. As his career grew, David Byrne went from playing CBGB to Carnegie Hall. Now he's sharing much of his enthusiasm in his latest book. David Byrne: The internet will suck all creative content out of the world The Guardian How Music Works is wonderfully wide-ranging, covering the prehistoric origins of music, Madonna's contracts, the musicality of animals, pie charts of earnings from his recent collaboration. In the years since, he's continued to create, revealing new sides of himself with every new project: from collaborations with Brian Eno, to solo records incorporating African and Latin rhythms, to ongoing collaborations with artists like St.

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