From PRX.

This is Studio 360.

I'm Kurti Anderson.

Five years ago, David Bowie was still alive, and an exhibition called David Bowie is opened at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

It has been touring the world since, and right now, until July 15th, it's making its final stand in New York City at the Brooklyn Museum.

It is fabulous.

There are more than 400 pieces in the exhibition.

His diary entries, handwritten lyrics, musical instruments, artwork, and, of course, lots of costumes.

But nothing really is more striking than the sheer breadth and depth of

David Bowie's music, which is also on audio display. Visitors get headphones that play a montage

of David Bowie songs as they move through the exhibit. And that montage was created by Bowie's longtime producer and collaborator, Tony Visconti.

Initially, I was asked to do just three songs and make it about three minutes long.

And I don't know, something just came over me.

And I realized that I couldn't decide on three songs.

So the three songs evolved into 49 songs.

But turning 49 songs by such a shapeshifter like Bowie into a cohesive medley was not easy.

David was so diverse in his tastes and styles and even his vocal styles are so different.

He has at least six different voices he uses.

So it took me about easily two months.

You'll hear why.

To make this montage work for the museum exhibit, Visconti had to hunt down all the tapes

from the original recording sessions and then pull the songs apart, remixing them, isolating

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