"How Music Works" by David Byrne

[shoodBworkin]

"Even before you hear music, Byrne points out, it has been shaped by the environment it was designed to be heard in, and by the equipment employed to make or record it. Much of the slow, stately western music of the middle ages sounds the way it does because it had to work within the four-second reverberations of stone-walled cathedrals (Bach's was more agile because he mostly wrote on a small church pipe organ). Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby capitalised on the arrival of the microphone as it allowed them to reach their predominantly female following with a whisper not a shout . . . "

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/se ... sfeed=true

[cardell]

Thanks!

Stuart

[eddied]

Thanks for the link to the Guardian review. I already have this on my reminder list to pop up when the book is available to buy in the next week or so!

EddieD

[charlie2]

Looks like a great book!

yes, the electric guitar radically changed things...in a big way. In fact, i think society is still trying to digest it. also the electric mic made it possible for singers to sing....and not shout

gonna get this book.

did i tell anyone the time my band backed up talking heads. we did quite a few shows with them. back in the 70s i was a drummer with johnny castro and the convertibles. it was at a place called "my father's place" in roslyn ny.

i spoke to tina...the bass player. very nice. then another night i spoke to brian eno because he was doing the sound for them.

i was asking him about robert fripp because i really liked him. in hindsight, maybe that could have been insulting to eno since i wasn't asking about him. (i wasn't into eno yet). anyway....i made a total a## of myself.... i was very young....and a little drunk.

o well....live and learn

[shoodBworkin]

You talked to Tina and Eno, lucky! Those guys in the Heads always seemed like regular folks

[charlie2]

yes, both of them seemed very friendly. decent folks

we need more people like them

[shoodBworkin]

Azzarad take:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087 ... 64356.html