David Byrne (from The TED Interview)

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Arts, Design

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🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

David Bryne views life through many lenses. He’s a musician, author, filmmaker, curator, conservationist, digital music theorist, bicycle advocate, visual artist... the list goes on. But through his many trajectories – from co-founding the acclaimed band Talking Heads to his later solo career, moving into theater and beyond, David is always trying to capture the indescribable. In this episode of The TED Interview, another podcast from the TED Audio Collective, David shares how he meshes art, technology, and point of view to tell one-of-a-kind stories, move audiences, and invoke all of us to create masterpieces of our own.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	Welcome to the Ted Interview.
0:07.0	I'm your host Stephen Johnson.
0:15.0	Looking back on this season of the show, we've gone deep into the creative process of one of today's greatest novelists.
0:23.8	My conscious ideas are not good enough, frankly.
0:26.8	They're not original.
0:28.1	So I've got to get out from under those
0:30.9	and get to something that surprises even me.
0:33.8	We've explored what understanding the deep Cosmos
0:36.4	tells us about the condition of our humanity.
0:39.0	We can't actually predict where these ideas
0:41.9	are going to come from and in some sense the
0:45.0	interesting scientific questions that come up come up through conflict and we've
0:50.5	dreamed of a future world without pandemics.
0:53.7	If we start thinking differently about how we're monitoring the animal health,
0:57.7	the environmental health, and other issues, we could start getting to predicting and
1:01.8	preventing these outbreaks without any human disease.
1:06.0	And that's when it gets really exciting.
1:08.0	But for our last episode of this season, we have something really special for you.
1:12.0	One of the most original and influential
1:15.3	artists of the past 50 years, David Byrne. David Byrne is probably best
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