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How Music Works

How Music Works

David Byrne
2012
T3 363 pages · about 6h 3m to read Open Librarygoodreads

Byrne argues that music is not created in a vacuum but is shaped by the spaces it's designed to fill — a cathedral's reverb, a club's noise floor, an iPod earbud. Part memoir, part cultural history, part production theory. The chapter on how CBGB's acoustics shaped Talking Heads's sound alone is worth the cover price.

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