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David Byrne: How Architecture Helped Music Evolve

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17 June 2010, 2:34pm

David Byrne, of Talking Heads fame, gives a TED talk on how perhaps creativity is the reverse of most people's romantic view. Rather than the passion coming first and the form taking shape later, he suggests that much creativity has the form in mind, and the passion comes later.

Not only is David Byrne a genius musically, but he put together a pretty good talk too. And though his thesis isn't anything too brilliant, he pieced together recent history of music very fluidly and very clearly.

[And I'm not sure if he's on coke or if his jitteriness is just left over from his younger days]

(via the TED podcast, which you all should subscribe to)