Name: 【TED】David Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve (How architecture helped music evolve | David Byrne)
Uploaded: 2016-08-04T03:20:35.000Z
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some of the music that I wrote was first performed.

With all the uneven walls and all the crap everywhere,

(Music: "A Clean Break (Let's Work)" by Talking Heads)

The lyrics of the songs could be pretty much understood.

And there wasn't a lot of reverberation in the room.

Other places around the country had similar rooms.

This is Tootsie's Orchid Lounge in Nashville.

The clientele behavior was very much the same too.

the volume had to be loud enough to overcome

But I also noticed that sometimes the music

but sometimes those halls didn't seem exactly suited

Most of the popular music that we know now

has a big part of its roots in West Africa.

the way it's played, the setting, the context,

The music works perfectly in that setting.

to create reverberation and confuse the rhythms.

that they can be heard without amplification, etc., etc.

It's perfect for that particular context.

in a context like this. This is a gothic cathedral.

(Music: "Spem In Alium" by Thomas Tallis)

In a gothic cathedral, this kind of music is perfect.

It doesn't change key, the notes are long,

wrote some of his music for. This is the organ.

so he can write things that are a little bit more intricate.

(Music: "Fantasia On Jesu, Mein Freunde" by Johann S. Bach)

This is the kind of rooms that Mozart wrote in.

I think we're in like 1770, somewhere around there.

(Music: "Sonata in F," KV 13, by Wolfgang A. Mozart)

People in the audience in these opera houses, when they were built,

They used to eat, drink and yell out to people on the stage,

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