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How Music Works
by David Byrne
The Talking Heads founder on how context shapes music: venues, technology, business, collaboration, scenes. Generous, curious and practical about the creative life.
Read it if…
you want an artist's thinking about art and its conditions.
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you want theory.
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Three things you will actually use
- Context shapes the work.
- Scenes matter.
- Make within constraints.
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Read the chapter on creation in reverse.
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Byrne on making.
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