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Arboretum
David Byrne
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Description for Arboretum
Hardcover.
For over thirty years, besides making music, David Byrne has focused his unique genius upon forms as diverse as the archaeology of music as we know it, architectural photography and the uses of PowerPoint. Now he presents his most personal work to date, a collection of drawings exploring the form of the tree diagram. Arboretum is an eclectic blend of science, automatic writing, self-analysis and satire. A journey through irrational logic - the application of scientific rigour and form to irrational premises, proceeding from careful nonsense to unexpected sense. The tree diagram is a form that might reveal ... Read more
For over thirty years, besides making music, David Byrne has focused his unique genius upon forms as diverse as the archaeology of music as we know it, architectural photography and the uses of PowerPoint. Now he presents his most personal work to date, a collection of drawings exploring the form of the tree diagram. Arboretum is an eclectic blend of science, automatic writing, self-analysis and satire. A journey through irrational logic - the application of scientific rigour and form to irrational premises, proceeding from careful nonsense to unexpected sense. The tree diagram is a form that might reveal ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786899507
SKU
9781786899507
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Ref
99-13
About David Byrne
David Byrne is a Scottish-born Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and co-founder of Talking Heads. He has been the recipient of many awards, including an Oscar and a Golden Globe. The author of How Music Works, Bicycle Diaries and The New Sins, Byrne lives in New York City. davidbyrne.com
Reviews for Arboretum
PRAISE FOR HOW MUSIC WORKS: It was wildly ambitious to try and turn this galaxy of theory into a readable work of scholarship but Byrne has done it, and done it with style
Observer
Brilliantly original
New York Times Book Review
Extraordinary
Guardian
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Observer
Brilliantly original
New York Times Book Review
Extraordinary
Guardian
... Read more