Team GER - Byrne Presentation

‘David Byrne: My love affair with sound’ article summary - Team GER

In David Byrne’s article, he goes through a timeline of how music changed, and how the audiences of music had an impact on the musical world. Byrne’s, the lead singer of The Talking Heads, also gives his insight as to how music is created, and challenges how audiences usually believe artists find the creativity to form the music. One aspect of music that Byrne focuses on mentioning during almost every section of his article was the fact that the music had to be loud enough to be heard over the commotion of the audience that they were playing for. All of the bands centered their music around being loud, and using loud and strong beats that could be easily heard and danced to. Throughout the article he discusses the differences over the years regarding audience types and etiquette, the ways we listen to music, and how the venues that hold musicians have adapted as the music has been able to change in terms of volume.

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