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9 Racks That Rock By David Byrne
2008-08-27 00:48:00 New Yorkers have something to look forward to when they return from summer vacation next week. New bike racks! And nine of them are the designs of Talking Heads founder, pop rocker, lyricist, visual artist, furniture designer - well, modern Renaissance man -- David Byrne! Architecture Art and Design Fun Innovation Lifestyle News Outdoors Travel
9 Racks That Rock By David Byrne
2008-08-27 00:48:00 New Yorkers have something to look forward to when they return from summer vacation next week. New bike racks! And nine of them are the designs of Talking Heads founder, pop rocker, lyricist, visual artist, furniture designer - well, modern Renaissance man -- David Byrne! Architecture Art and Design Fun Innovation Lifestyle News Outdoors Travel
David Byrne: Playing the Building Opening
2008-05-31 16:00:00 "Creative Time presents Playing the Building, a 9,000-square-foot, interactive, site-specific installation by renowned artist David Byrne. The artist transforms the interior of the landmark Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan into a massive sound sculpture that all visitors are invited to sit and 'play.' The project consists of a retrofitted antique organ, placed in the center of the building's cavernous second-floor gallery, that controls a series of devices attached to its structural features?metal beams, plumbing, electrical conduits, and heating and water pipes. These machines vibrate, strike, and blow across the building?s elements, triggering unique harmonics and producing finely tuned sounds." Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
By: FreeNYC
Evening Update - David Byrne, Rush, Robyn Hitchcock
2008-05-29 08:10:00 David Byrne will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 12th Annual Webbys which honor the best of on-line content. The award recognizes him for his work in bringing multimedia culture to the masses through his internet radio station, blog and art.Rush donated $100,000 from a recent concert in Winnipeg, Canada to the Canadian Museum of Human Rights. The museum is set to open in 2010.The second multi-disc career retrospective set from Robyn Hitchcock is scheduled for release on August 5 from Yep Rock records. This time around, the set concentrates on Hitchcock's post-Soft Boys days with the Egyptians. Luminous Groove will be a 5-CD or 8-LP set.Hitchcock said in a statement, ?It?s odd for me to think of the 1980s as being in the past. Back then, they were a baleful future that we refugees from the 1960s were marooned in. I never thought I?d get out alive from Reagan, Thatcher and shoulder pads. But time wins again.?
David Byrne Planning New Album, Colaboration with Fatboy Slim
2008-04-17 01:11:00 David Byrne, formerly of the Talking Heads, has told NME.com of his forthcoming album and other works.Byrne has recorded a new album with former collaborator Brian Eno, although he was not forthcoming with any further details other than it is "a record together of songs." The two worked together when Eno produced the Talking Heads albums More Songs About Buildings and Food, Fear of Music and Remain in Light along with collaborating on the album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.He also added, rather cryptically, that "I?m also working on a collaboration with Fatboy Slim, also songs, I don?t know when that?ll be done but sometime.?Byrne performed last week at the New York showcase of the work of Paul Simon. He told NME it was a bit of a no brainer. ?I know these songs and I just thought this is going to be?not exactly easy?but it?s not that hard. It?s in New York, I don?t have to go anywhere, I?m not on tour, I?m just working on writing and recording stuff of my own so I thought this...
Afternoon Update - Elton John, Dolly Parton, Bob Marley, more
2008-04-10 22:02:00 Elton John's benefit concert for the campaign of Senator Hillary Clinton raised $2.5 million.John added his verbal support for Clinton. "I've always been a Hillary supporter. There is no one more qualified to lead America."I'm amazed by the misogynistic attitudes of some of the people in this country and I say to hell with them. I love you Hillary, I'll be there for you."Dolly Parton participated in the release of a young bald eagle into the Great Smokey Mountains on Thursday. The eagle was a rescue from Florida, where it had been blown from its nest.Cedella Booker, the mother of the late Bob Marley, passed away in Miami on Tuesday at the age of 81. Booker was not only a singer with two albums to her credit, but also an author of two books on her son's life.David Byrne joined Paul Simon last night at Simon's Under African Skies concert. The show was part of a month-long series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music saluting various aspects of the singer's career. Last nights...
Season 2 of ?The Green? Premieres Tonight
2008-04-01 19:36:00 The season premiere of The Sundance Channel's environmental reality series airs tonight 9pm.
By: Geeks of Doom
Lou Reed, David Byrne, Norah Jones, Moby Head Up Anti-War Benefit Concert I
2008-03-19 19:44:00 Lou Reed, David Byrne, Norah Jones, Moby, Scissor Sisters and others performed at an anti-war benefit in New York Tuesday.
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
2008-01-16 08:47:00 One of the benefits of moving house is that it forces you to go through your stuff. Yesterday I dug out a box of cassettes, many probably unplayed for over 2o years. One of the treasures was My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by David Byrne and Brian Eno. I remember thinking that it was a revelation when I heard it for the first time. The musical collage of electronic sounds overlayed on real world speech and singing is dramatic. It was considered ground breaking at the time and influenced many other musicians.After getting over the issue of what a cassette tape was, the kids settled down to listen in the car as we drove to sports camp. At the end, they asked to hear it again because they really liked it. Some of the tracks reminded me of the computer games that Ryan loves to play. All very familiar given the number of times I played it in the 80s.It was rereleased recently with new tracks and some politically correct edits to address concerns by Islamic Groups who objected to singing t...
David Byrne sounds off on what is really happening to the music industry
2007-12-30 18:41:00 The music industry has been blaming technology (most recently broadband enabled file sharing) for all of its woes. The RIAA has become a relentless litigator for its big music company members, now even suing individuals for copying content from CD’s they own onto other devices for personal use. They may be correct in assigning blame to digital technology. It has changed the landscape in which they have controlled and distributed content. Until broadband enabled new channels, distribution had remained much the same as it was in the time of lacquer discs and the Victorola. Now, with increasing frequency, artists are retaining the rights to their their material and doing their own distribution. This has all been enabled by technology, and more significantly broadband. Musicians and consumers suddenly gained control of distribution as well as how and where content could be used. David Byrne recently wrote the best overview of the changes in the music industry I have read to date. ...
By: Third Pipe
David Byrne Journal
2007-11-24 19:08:00 Came across Talking heads front man David Bryne's on-line Journal the other week. An excellent read1 Vote(s)
By: JeQQ it
The Tao of Blog: David Byrne Journal
2007-11-16 05:31:00 When I came across Talking Heads front man David Byrne's online blog the other evening it felt like meeting up with an old friend and spending time catching up on the past few years. I have been playing music, guitar, blues harp and pe5 Zoom(s)
david byrne deconstructs ikea
2007-11-12 07:58:00 from david byrne's journal......My sister had the idea that we would take my parents to IKEA to look at possible replacements for their kitchen cabinets, counters, sinks and storage. I loved the idea of a trip to IKEA since I’d never been there ever. And as it was to be a look-see and not a buying trip, the pressure would be low. I was looking forward to the famous Swedish meatballs for lunch too. read more.
By: johnny wildcat
Talking Heads, la banda de rock de David Byrne. Ver videoclip: ?Once in a l
2007-07-22 00:00:00 Talking Heads, banda de rock formada por David Byrne en el año 1974 junto a Chris Frantz y Tina Weymouth. Un par de años después se integraría a ella el guitarrista y tecladista Jerry Harrison, quién anteriormente había grabado junto a The Modern Lovers. Luego de 8 importantes álbumes de estudio, varias giras, videos musicales ...
By: teimagino
David Byrne - Rei Momo
2007-07-03 10:08:00 David Byrne’s first release after the breakup of the Talking Heads is not only a logical progression from their final album, ‘Naked’, it’s his first truly pop-oriented solo work. Built on his recent fondness for Latin and Afro-Cuban musical styles, ‘Rei Momo’ is half music lesson (songs are sambas, cumbias, etc.) and half late-period Talking ...
David Byrne and Daniel Levitin met to discuss music
2007-05-02 08:14:00 David Byrne, the well known lead singer and songwriter of the seminal band Talking Heads, has had an extensive solo career, won an Academy Award for his work on The Last Emperor soundtrack, exhibited his artwork internationally, and authored five books, including, most recently, Arboretum. For 10 years, Daniel Levitin worked as a session musician, sound and recording engineer, and record producer. He is now the James McGill professor of behavioral neuroscience and music at McGill University and the author of The New York Times bestseller This Is Your Brain on Music. Recently at STK, in New York's Meatpacking District, the two traded ideas about music, language, and memory.
By: Attuworld
Arboretum, David Byrne
2007-01-26 15:41:01 Why Indeed? What Indeed? Byrne’s Arboretum As sensible beings we are constantly doing nonsensical things and making non-sensible connections. Great strides in science have been made this way. Poetry relies on it. Peace makers and warmongers alike argue with irrational potency. I depend on it to find my keys every morning. With Arboretum, David Byrne has penned a collection of similarly diagrammed mind maps which seemingly random ideas with other seemingly random outcomes. To paraphrase, he argues that what we “think” is a rationalization of what we already “feel,” or our animal urges. And thus, if it can be succesfully argued that “we feel what we believe ’til the day that we die”, and that our brain is simply a rationalizing agent that chooses whatever language is at hand to prove the rightness of those immutable feelings or animal impulses, then all is nonsense. Scientific method is as rational as poetics. Nonsense can move to s...
By: The Open Critic
Brian Eno e David Byrne - O Arbusto e Os Fantasmas Vivos
2006-09-14 14:18:00 Um dos discos mais revolucionários e inovadores de inÃcios dos anos 80, «My Life In The Bush of Ghosts», de Brian Eno e David Byrne, foi reeditado, remasterizado e aumentado recentemente (tendo também uma capa nova, diferente daquela que está aqui em baixo). Já era tempo. O álbum ficou como um marco de vários géneros musicais, como um dos momentos-charneira da utilização de samples na música popular e precursor de muitos cruzamentos que, depois, a chamada world music iria desenvolver. No site bushofghosts, dedicado à reedição do álbum, está a decorrer um curioso concurso de remisturas dos temas, aberto à participação de toda a gente. E, aqui, recupero um texto originalmente publicado no BLITZ, em Agosto de 2002, de memória do álbum.BRIAN ENO & DAVID BYRNE«MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTS»LP Sire, 1981Um deles, Brian Eno, foi o responsável pelo traçar de caminhos dos Roxy Music, antes de abandonar o grupo (logo ao segundo álbum), por incompatibilidades com Br...
By: Raizes e Antenas
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