Byrnes thoughts on music.
Byrne suggests that a classical composer gets an unusual look in his eye and begins to furiously scribble a fully realized composition that can’t exist in any other form. Or that a rock-and-roll singer is driven by desire and demons, and out bursts this amazing, perfectly shaped song that had to be three minutes and twelve seconds — nothing more, nothing less. All forms had there own style. African folk music used percussion because they were outdoors so it carried better and medieval music had long notes because they were used to playing in cathedrals and large indoor spaces where percussion like africans music would sound cluttered and not good. Certain genres had different audiences, original audiences of classical music were just everyone, now a days the people at the opera tend to all be “high” class people. Classical audiences were no longer allowed to shout, eat, and chat during a performance. Ross hints that this was a way of keeping the hoi polloi out of the new symphony halls and opera houses. Because of this, the type of music that could be composed could be more detailed and intricate because there would be no background noise. The live venue, and the device that could play a recording or receive a transmission. Socially and acoustically, these spaces were worlds apart. An audience who heard and loved a song on the radio naturally wanted to hear that same song at the club or the concert hall. In order to keep a popular section continuing longer for the dancers who wanted to keep moving, the players would jam over chord changes while maintaining the same groove. The musicians learned to stretch out and extend whatever section of the tune was deemed popular. Crooning was a new kind of singing many years ago. It wouldn’t have worked without a microphone. Without microphones this intimacy wouldn’t have been heard at all.The acoustics for disco and arena rock were totally different Because with disco it was all about dancing to the music because they wanted it to sound the same way as the radio and just dance, but if that was played in an arena it would sound very chaotic and bad. with rock that was being played in arenas it sounded much better because of the longer notes that wouldn't sound chaotic. Although this music may have emerged from dance-oriented early hip-hop, it has changed into something else entirely. With headphones on, you can hear and appreciate extreme detail and subtlety, and the lack of uncontrollable reverb inherent in hearing music in a live room means that rhythmic material survives beautifully and completely intact; it doesn’t get blurred or turned into sonic mush as it often does in a concert hall.
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