“A supremely intelligent, superbly written dissection of music as an art form and way of life. In it he explores how profoundly music is shaped by its time and place, and he explains how the advent of recording technology in the twentieth century forever changed our relationship to playing, performing, and listening to. Join us for this special live event as musician, filmmaker and author-and impresario-David Byrne takes an illuminative look inside the formative elements of music. How Music Works is David Byrnes remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. How Music REALLY Works, 2nd Edition, focuses on how to seize the attention of listeners and move them emotionally. Music, like everything else, is determined by forces that are often external to the music itself: the acoustics of where we hear it, the technology of recording and reproduction, the economy of the arts, the way it is performed, and the way our social world and education shapes our opinions about what we hear. How Music Works is David Byrnes bestselling, buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about.
Ostensibly, his book is about record production, but really it’s about people. This edition of How Music Works includes a new chapter on the latest developments in music discovery. Making Records: The Scenes Behind the Music By Phil Ramone Why this book Phil Ramone has been involved in producing records for some of the biggest acts in music, including Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, and Paul Simon. This exclusive event will include all sorts of performance: music, of course, but also theater, dance, science and humor… and more. David Byrne hosts and curates an evening of music and performance in celebration of his book How Music Works, his incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form.
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