It’ll also look über hip on your coffee table. How Music Works is this week’s sacred text, an unconventional literary cure for the struggling musician, amongst other things. Hopelessly distraught by consumer culture’s irreversible effect on popular music? And of all the arts, music, being ephemeral, is the closest to being an experience more than it is a thing – it is yoked to where you heard it, how much you paid for it, and who else was there.” – David Byrne, How Music Works This ineffable thing has not yet been isolated, but we do know that social, historical, economic, and psychological forces influence what we respond to – just as much as the work itself. Many people believe that there is some mysterious and inherent quality hidden in great art, and that this invisible substance is what causes those works to affect us as deeply as they do. 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.
The Music Experience is not just those sound waves, but the context in which they occur as well. “ Music is made of sound waves that we encounter at specific times and places: they happen, we sense them, and then they're gone.
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