The music of David Byrne’s mind

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Society & Culture, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

David Byrne 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, he 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. David’s latest experiential theater project “Theater of the Mind” is running now through December 18 at York Street Yards in Denver, Colorado.

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0:00.0	Have you listened to Talk Radio recently?
0:03.0	Let's talk about this war on white people.
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0:10.0	I'm Katie Thornton, host of the divided dial,
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0:25.0	from the airwaves.
0:26.0	Listen every Tuesday and on the media feed.
0:29.0	Welcome to the Ted interview.
0:36.0	I'm your host, Stephen Johnson.
0:39.0	Looking back on this season of the show,
0:42.0	we've gone deep into the creative process of one of today's greatest novelists.
0:47.0	My conscious ideas are not good enough, frankly.
0:50.0	They're not original.
0:51.0	So I've got to get out from under those
0:54.0	and get to something that surprises even me.
0:57.0	We've explored what understanding the deep cosmos tells us
1:00.0	about the condition of our humanity.
1:02.0	We can't actually predict where these ideas are going to come from.
1:06.0	And in some sense, the interesting scientific questions that come up
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