How architecture helped music evolve | David Byrne

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www.ted.com As his career grew, David Byrne went from playing CBGB to Carnegie Hall. He asks: Does the venue make the music? From outdoor drumming to Wagnerian operas to arena rock, he explores how context has pushed musical innovation.
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@eris6676 5 лет назад

I could happily listen to David Byrne talk about architecture and birds for the rest of my life.

@evanhughes1510 3 года назад

Freak

@juiciegiraffe2562 3 года назад

@@evanhughes1510 yes we are freaks

@ausundvorbei1 2 года назад

@@juiciegiraffe2562 weirdos :)

@jimbobtheimpaler8403 5 лет назад

I don't know if Mr.Byrne reads any of these ramblings. But I- just some random internet person - would like to thank you for your contributions to the music industry in group and solo. Thank you good Sir for all your time devoted towards what seems to be a dying art form. You keep the gears turning in young minds , old minds and so on. Thank you.

@Isosceles1 7 лет назад

As a musician I really love conversations about music. It would be fun to sit down with David Byrne, have drinks and geek out on music.

@sker033 6 лет назад

12:08 "HOW DID I GET HERE?"

@SepticFuddy 5 лет назад

You read my mind.

@beingsshepherd 4 года назад

That's something that puts me off being a lyricist. Being haunted for life by catchphrases.

@apt_slacker995 4 года назад

@@beingsshepherd stop making sense

@MF-kn1wl 3 года назад

I was thinking that too

@eddiethompson1909 5 лет назад

absolutely amazingly, sooo intelligent. I never have thought of music in the way he describes. 50 yrs. old and still learning something new everyday.

@JamZorro 3 года назад

"I Don't Always Watch TV... But When I Do, I Prefer TED & The Most Excellent David Byrne... Stay Thirsty, My Friends"

@georgiasmaglee3511 2 года назад

It is so nice to see how much David has grown from the early years. He used to be socially awkward and extremely shy, and now he seems very comfortable, well-versed and extremely passionate in his talk. When I saw this video I thought that this is going to be boring, but I was very pleasantly surprised and very interested in what he had to say. I never gave much thought about this subject until I heard this talk and it really makes a lot of sense. I'm very glad that I clicked on this video and I learned a lot.

@d30few 6 лет назад

at 12:08, I was hoping he would follow that up with, "how did i get here?"

@avedic 11 лет назад

He cites all that in his excellent book "How Music Works." Im halfway through it now and it's excellent.

@MoonGables 5 лет назад

what's with the tiny suit?

@rpmhart 5 лет назад

Perspective, m'lad. Perspective.

@chrisristau8803 3 года назад

his heads just big lmao

@juicedawell2402 3 года назад

Make up for the giant suit he use to wear

@chrisristau8803 3 года назад

@@juicedawell2402 he wore the big suit because he thought his head was big lol

@jeffreyike841 5 лет назад

Always insightful, always informative, always innovative and always entertaining. That is David Byrne

@holdmybeer 14 лет назад

my dad constantly watched "stop making sense" in concert I always loved the huge over sized suit he wore :D

@mistermojito33 10 лет назад

I'm listening to "How Music Works" books on tape 2.0. Terrific reader, sounds much like David, a little less exclamatory maybe, but certainly one of the best readings and thus consistent with best books of the year, along with Mivchael Lewis. It inspired me to plug my old Gibson J160-e into a loop station I purchased many years ago in Oakland next door to a cannabis club. My own ambient music...my own venue. Another True Story.

@Mmxxaamm 6 лет назад

Did he just took a jab at U2...? man I love David so fucking much

@Mmxxaamm 6 лет назад

Yeah the guy is a genius

@mrkrndvs 10 лет назад

An interesting discussion from Talking Heads, David Byrne, about the connection between music and architecture. Makes you wonder where music will go to next, maybe it will become more interactive and become highly personalised.

@Mmxxaamm 6 лет назад

That was exactly the point he was aiming for

@pa609 6 лет назад

I think he made his point quite clearly and with his usual verve and panache.

@AlwaysBe5 12 лет назад

wow, these pros take note of every little things, architecture and music

@B3nnub1rd 11 лет назад

Greatest TEDTalk ever! He synthesized the visuals and audio with his speech so masterfully.

@strangersound 10 лет назад

This is an incredible lecture. :)

@MrTitian 6 лет назад

I love David Byrne, since the last 70's ;-), and this lesson about architecture (or context) and music is a great lesson, a lectio magistralis! (y)

@freshhandshake 5 лет назад

G O V E R N M E N T M A N

@CaptainBohnenbrot 3 года назад

Tiny lil correction: The picture of Wagner's opera house isn't actually the one Wagner designed himself. It's a picture of the Bayreuth opera house, where he conducted a couple of times, before his own "Festspielhaus" was constructed. The Festspielhaus is much less grandious in interior design than the opera house shown in the pic.

@ThroneofEden 14 лет назад

Great video. I liked that he tried to tie it in, although a little bit vague, to concepts of evolution and adaptation in the end. It would actually have been interesting he spent more time showing the more specific similarities between musical creation and adaptation to architectural design. In the end, he nicely de-mystifies the process of musical creation. He shows that it's not magical inspiration but a co-existence between inspiration and adaptation and almost a form of compromise.

@JMsoprano 14 лет назад

Excellent. This is something musicians - especially amplified singers - deal with constantly. I'm teaching music appreciation and history of rock and roll in the fall, and I will definitely be using this clip as a springboard for other assignments.

@HottestFrogLegs 11 лет назад

He mentioned Tootsie's! *heart flutter* (One of the few Nashvegas spots I actually miss.) And everything else he "mentions" is badass, too.

@sony1712 10 лет назад

very intrigued by this lecture

@sosijiz1971 3 года назад

Just look at how his eyes flash and dart around - relentlessly!! Imagine trying to sneak a peek at your phone - he'd see you straight away! Anyway, I agree, what a wicked lecture. PS, book is brilliant too.

@willet2275 7 лет назад

Knowledge that extends the prospect of seeing.

@eddiethompson1909 5 лет назад

very well put...

@Mda878 3 года назад

2:14 he asked himself well how did I get here?

@BayviewFinch 13 лет назад

I would say that the music comes first, then the venues follow suit. It's cool though how David Byrne brought up this connection between architecture and music, and he's always interesting to listen to.

@woodcarversmartini4313 11 лет назад

this is just perfect and i have watched a lot of Ted talks

@alexeysergeev8430 2 года назад

Огромное спасибо за перевод

@briansmobile1 14 лет назад

@cireyar Well expressed sir! I respect your input.

@aimeestackhouse203 2 года назад

Agreed. Great lecture. Im not "Catholic" but do go for the double artistry experience. Beautiful paintings on walls and ceiling and the acoustics are amazing :) -A

@BrianJ1962 14 лет назад

Nice to see he's still got that 'wild' glint in his eye ;-)

@Strange-Songs 8 месяцев назад

12:08 "And you may ask yourself...." 😄

@EarthVsJazz 11 лет назад

Great Book!! Great Band!

@PhattyMo 14 лет назад

LOL... at 2:08 "So I asked myself".....aaannd the song started playing in my head.

@gremy0 14 лет назад

definitely one on the most unique ideas I've seen on TED I loved it. Then again, although I love music and play a lot of guitar, I have studied next to nothing to do with in depth musical theory so maybe it is blindingly obvious. Had to add "music's only a theory not a fact you cant teach me that!!!"

@sevenz1471 7 лет назад

....genius if ever there was.

@BrendanOConnell70 13 лет назад

great insight into the contexts and form of music

@diegothrasher9137 6 лет назад

He talks about this in his book, How Music Works

@KnightsofEmerald 14 лет назад

Great talk, thanks!

@fr3rdsky 7 лет назад

This man is brilliant.

@wisco_simple 5 лет назад

This is awesome! Thanks ted

@caseyforever 14 лет назад

loved that! as a musician it seem especially telling. very cool.

@cccuocsongmy8327 4 года назад

Love it

@timidgothica 14 лет назад

wonderful!

@harveyts3 14 лет назад

I enjoyed this talk.

@test123ok 14 лет назад

very insightful ! did anyone notice how much his head shakes from side to side ?

@stephenstrange4245 4 года назад

Loooool I thought that at 9:55 it was a pan of the audience and someone had been patiently waiting to get a question answered (haha good luck buddy)

@markwinnington 13 лет назад

i think the conclusion should be - music genre and type is born inside a venue and venues are suited to fit an already born style of music. For example, acoustically speaking only - The organ was born in a church as it was an instrument that relied on high reverberation times (6-10secs) - churches then continued to be built to suit organs.

@Waranoa 14 лет назад

Interesting idea :) I like the inclusion of the walkman/mp3 player.

@MidiPunk 14 лет назад

Very interesting!

@briansmobile1 14 лет назад

Brilliant insight by David Byrne.

@VilleMetsola 14 лет назад

Very interesting ideas

@gregdahlen4375 8 лет назад

so he got me looking at the wall of the room I'm sitting in, thinking about the color of paint, can I do something with that color artistically?

@miamotoworld 6 лет назад

fascinating guy

@eddiethompson1909 5 лет назад

extremely fascinating... amen

@scotty 13 лет назад

A thought provoking point of view.

@superhakujin 12 лет назад

@leconfidant Thanks for suggesting that album - I just picked it up and gave it a quick listen. I won't say it's my new fave but it's certainly provocative. I thought I heard hints of everything from New Wave to Yoko Kanno... I wonder how many artists this album influenced! Speaking of which, you might like Downtime by the Kleptones - it's a little less ambient, but similar in tone and full of interesting samples.

@tiger8894 12 лет назад

What's the name of the Bach piece at 3:52 ?

@hprk11 11 лет назад

This is so interesting. But I think perhaps the instrument that the artist has at his disposal is even more important than the context within which the music is being created. As determining a factor as the context it, the tool(s) being used are decidedly more so.

@lovesinvein 4 года назад

The ending wasn’t really that hard to follow. I picked up on the comparison pretty quickly which was much like musicians, birds adapt the sounds of their calls to fit best with their environment.

@dr2050productions 13 лет назад

Excellent talk: so right and fun to watch. The "conclusion" was nonsense, unfortunately. I was hoping that Byrne would say something about music, and about what kind of architecture comes next, or at least how to bring dynamic range back to music... oh well.

@Waranoa 12 лет назад

2:24 "The concert venue of Africa"

@whitelark87 13 лет назад

Does anybody know the name of the composer and/or piece that plays during the gothic cathedral stint? [3:13] It is glorious and haunting... I'd like to give it to my iPod as a present.

@zexfrost 12 лет назад

Can someone tell me name of the song at 0:35?

@sjkdec18 14 лет назад

@pinkled Thanks so much!

@scarybird977 6 лет назад

Does anyone have a list of all the songs?

@dirkpehrke9909 9 лет назад

Apart from the intelligent content about architecture, the part about U2 stadium rock is just so funny... "I'm an ordinary guy / Burning down the House" As Byrne once wrote about Architecture and Music.

@breaneainn 14 лет назад

Bloody David Byrne pops up after 20 years, and in a few short sentences, completely messes with everyones head.

@TheNellamaria 12 лет назад

very interesting...

@airventilation 14 лет назад

very interesting

@WaltzingAndroid 9 лет назад

Christopher Small must be read and quoted for this matter

@portcherish 11 лет назад

Oh my gosh same here.

@breakingheights8920 7 лет назад

yes

@bluebalute 14 лет назад

@TheEnDBG I did not and still do not believe that David Byrne was hating on car audio. He expressed a personal opinion on possibly not liking the music but each to his own and I think that was his attitude. If you are also referring to the photos that he used then you should also notice that he used that kind of thing in other places in his talk. It is called humor and it is funny. Odd thing is that I think he, like you, also loves music.

@AtheistCitizen 14 лет назад

"encore" after all, comes from the word "ancora" which means simply "again"

@takigan 14 лет назад

@LokiClock Have you watched the TEDtalk by Benjamin Zander. THAT was a profound music talk.

@PiazzeDiRoma 10 лет назад

architecture

@Roman-xk7fk 7 лет назад

nice

@Rafael_33 6 лет назад

He playing Lil' Jon's Who U Wit? was eay more unexpected than comparing it to the birds singing at the end.

@adsilcott 14 лет назад

David Byrne is the man... maybe in music more than TedTalking, but still the man. I'm surprised he didn't talk about the project he did that turned an old building into a musical instrument: watch?v=M1D30gS7Z8U

@arkhangelsk 13 лет назад

@whitelark87 the composer is thomas tallis, and the piece is 'spem in alium,' a motet for 40 voices, which he composed around 1570 or so. isn't it stunning?

@AtibaChikeWilliams 14 лет назад

I practically live in concert halls. Maybe that's why my music sounds the way it does.

@tbyrd62us 12 лет назад

Genius!

@jimmuse59 10 лет назад

Does Anyone know where the Bach hall is?

@xrockangelx 7 лет назад

jimmuse59 I want to know where it is, too! It looks just like a church I sang in with my high school choir on our senior trip to Europe! If so, I think it is somewhere in Austria..

@xrockangelx 7 лет назад

jimmuse59 Nope. Different church. Just found it. It's in Arnstadt, Germany.

@MrTitian 6 лет назад

He does't compose only in Arnstadt, but also in few others lutheran churches, in Leipzig for example. I think it was common in Europe in that centuries (XVI-XVIII) to compose music explicitly for a given church or for a given instuments (organs) available there.

@fadialameer3401 7 лет назад

whats the piece from motzart at @4:17

@stanvansterkenburg6081 5 лет назад

Sonata F

@Trazynn 14 лет назад

This title sounds as if it came straight out of a TEDtalks title generator

@krainey 4 года назад

Total Geek.... 😎👍

@zarkoff45 14 лет назад

@lordkatakos It was solid for the first 3 quarters of the talk, but he got a little flaky toward the end by bringing up an overly broad topic that didn't quite relate - politicians faking sincerity. I still faved this one.