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KCBS All News
"david byrne" Discussed on KCBS All News
"David Byrne as the lead singer and songwriter Talking Heads, the hugely influential post punk rock band of late 1970s and 80s. They broke up more than 30 years ago, but Byrne has been on his own eclectic journey ever since. His artistic innovations have blurred the boundaries of music, theater, and art. He's won an Oscar, a Grammy, and a Tony toward with salsa singers, collaborated with neuroscientists, made movies, and has just been nominated for another Oscar. Now 70, David Byrne is as creative energetic and unusual as he was when he was 23, an art school dropout, just starting to perform on stage with his friends as Talking Heads. The name of this band is Talking Heads. And the name of this song is psycho killer. So we're going to be very matter of fact. There's not like are we having fun tonight? Yeah, there's none of that how you do all doing. How are y'all doing New York? I'm dancing with a camera like this is one of David Byrne's first performances. It was 1975 at CBGB's a legendary music club where the Ramones, Patti Smith, and blondie were also just getting started. Psycho killer was only the second song David Byrne had ever ridden, and it was Talking Heads first hit. When you hear it now, what do you think? I'm
60 Minutes
"david byrne" Discussed on 60 Minutes
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"david byrne" Discussed on 60 Minutes
"5 steps to officiate the wedding. We added the highlights to make it easier to see. He says Bing can handle more complex queries. Fit in the back of my 2019 Honda Odyssey. Oh, it knows how big the couches. It knows how big that trunk is. Exactly. So right here, it says, based on this dimensions, it seems a loveseat might not fit in your car. With only the third row seats down. When you broach a controversial topic, Bing is designed to discontinue the conversation. So someone asks, for example, how can I make a bomb at home? Wow. Really? People, you know, do a lot of that, unfortunately, on the Internet. What we do is we come back and we say, I'm sorry, I don't know how to discuss this topic. And then we try and provide a different thing to change that focus on that conversation. Their attention? Yeah, exactly. In this case, Bing tried to divert the questioner with this fun fact. 3% of the ice and Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine. I didn't know that. Who knew that? Being is using an upgraded version of an AI system called chat GPT developed by the company OpenAI. Chat GPT has been in circulation for just three months. And already, an estimated 100 million people have used it. I think. Ellie pavlik, an assistant Professor of computer science at Brown university, who has been studying this AI technology since 2018. Says it can simplify complicated concepts. Can you explain the debt ceiling on the debt ceiling, it says, just like you can only spend up to a certain amount on your credit card, the government can only borrow up to a certain amount of money. That's a pretty nice explanation. It is. And it can do this for a lot of concepts. And it can do things teachers have complained about like right school papers. Pavlik says no one fully understands how these AI bots work. They don't understand how it works. Right. Like we understand a lot about how we made it and why we made it that way. But I think some of the behaviors that we're seeing come out of it are better than we expected. They would be. And we're not quite sure. And worse and worse. These chat bots are built by feeding a lot of computers enormous amounts of information scraped off the Internet from books, Wikipedia, news sites, but also from social media that might include racist or anti semitic ideas, and misinformation say about vaccines and Russian propaganda. As the data comes in, it's difficult to discriminate between true and false, benign and toxic. But Bing and chat GPT have safety filters that try to screen out the harmful material. Still, they get a lot of things factually wrong. Even when we prompted chat GPT with a softball question. Who is Leslie's dog? So it gives you some. Oh my God. It's wrong. Oh, is this? It's totally wrong. I didn't work for NBC for 20 years. It was CBS. It doesn't really understand that what it's saying is wrong, right? Like NBC, CBS, they're kind of the same thing as far as it's concerned. The lesson is that it gets things wrong. It gets a lot of things right. It gets a lot of things wrong. I actually like to call it creates authoritative bull. It lends the truth and falsity so finely together that unless you're a real technical expert in the field that you're talking about, you don't know. Cognitive scientist and AI researcher Gary Marcus says these systems often make things up and AI talk. That's called hallucinating. And that raises the fear of ever widening AI generated propaganda, explosive campaigns of political fiction. Waves of alternative histories. We saw how chat GPT could be used to spread a lie. This is automatic fake news generation. Help me write a news article about how McCarthy is staging a filibuster to prevent gun control legislation. And rather than fact checking and saying, hey, hold on, there's no legislation. There's no filibuster. Said, great. In a bold move to protect Second Amendment rights, senator McCarthy is staging a filibuster to prevent gun control legislation from passing. It sounds completely legit. Just won't that make all of us a little less trusting, a little warier. Well, first of all, I think we should be warier. I'm very worried about an atmosphere of distrust being a consequence of this current flawed AI and I'm really worried about how bad actors are going to use it. Troll farms using this tool to make enormous amounts of misinformation. Tim neat gebru is a computer scientist and AI researcher who founded an institute focused on advancing ethical AI and has published influential papers documenting the harms of these AI systems. She says there needs to be oversight. If you're gonna put out a drug, you gotta go through all sorts of hoops to show us that you've done clinical trials. You know what the side effects are. You've done your due diligence. Same with food, right? There are agencies that inspect the food, you have to tell me what kind of tests you've done, what the side effects are, who at harms who doesn't harm, et cetera. We don't have that for a lot of things that the tech industry is building. I'm wondering if you think you may have introduced this AI bot too soon. I don't think we've introduced it too soon. I do think we've created a new tool that people can use to think more critically to be more creative to accomplish more in their lives. And like all tools, it will be used in ways that we don't intend. Why do you think the benefits outweigh the risks, which at this moment, a lot of people would look at and say, wait a minute, those risks are too big. Because I think, first of all, I think the benefits are so great. This can be an economic game changer, and it's enormously important for the United States. Because the countries in a race with China, president Macron Smith also mentioned possible improvements in productivity. It can automate routine. I think there are certain aspects of jobs that many of us might regard as sort of drudgery today. Filling out forms, looking at the forms to see if they've been filled out correctly. So what jobs will it displace? Do you know? I think at this stage, it's hard to know. In the past, inaccuracies and biases have led tech companies to take down AI systems, even Microsoft did in 2016. This time, Microsoft left its new chatbot up despite the controversy over Sydney and persistent and accuracies. Remember that fun fact about penguins? Well, we did some fact checking and discovered that penguins don't urinate. The inaccuracies are just constant. I just keep finding that it's wrong. A lot. It has been the case that with each passing day and week, we're able to improve the accuracy of the results. Reduce, whether it's hateful comments or inaccurate statements or other things that we just don't want this to be used to
60 Minutes
"david byrne" Discussed on 60 Minutes
"A machine. 'cause my bed's on fire. This is one of David Byrne's first performances. There was 1970 5 at CBGB's a legendary music club where the Ramones, Patti Smith, and blondie were also just getting started. So I wanted to be very matter of fact. There's not like are we having fun tonight? Yeah, there's another how you do all doing. All right, y'all doing New York.
Awards Chatter
"david byrne" Discussed on Awards Chatter
"You look at the words, yes. Now you said in an interview earlier this year quote I've always been a little wary of being too successful. It's nice to be successful. It's nice to be liked, but I remember with Talking Heads, we started playing really big venues, doing stadiums and things like that. And I started finding it very impersonal, close quote. So I guess I wonder was that a major contributor in terms of you guys kind of growing apart and you wanting to do other things or what would you just because there's everybody's got a theory, everybody's got a storyline of what they think happened to lead to 1991 where that was the end of the band. But I guess what is the correct story? Well, there's a lot of different factors involved in why a band. Kind of reaches the end of the road. That would have been one of them. I think there's some of the others probably love the idea that we were getting more popular. We're going to play arenas or whatever like that. And I was finding it a little bit of a treadmill and my heart wasn't in it. But, you know, the money was good and that connection with an audience was good. There were other things, the old line that gets used a lot by a lot of people, so musical differences. And you know, we didn't always have musical differences, but there was a period where I was starting to listen to a lot of Latin music around New York because there were a lot of Latin clubs downtown. Right next to The Rock clubs or other clubs. And yeah, I've become very enamored of that music. And wanted to work with some of those musicians, which I eventually did. But that was yeah, so that was a big musical change of direction. Although at the time, I remember the record company said, David. I've listened to those songs. They could have been talking head songs. You know, okay. Yeah. Well, in fact, just aside from local things that you were listening to, wasn't there something when, in 86, you go and make a film, true stories at that time. True story was the film you made. But there was something about, I guess, being in San Francisco and discovering records from around the world that also maybe picked that interest. Absolutely. Since San Francisco during post production on true stories and for the love of the sound mixing and a lot of that kind of thing, I didn't have to be there for the mornings. I had my mornings free. So I'd go down to tower records and browse through the racks, pull out some records that had interesting covers, artists I didn't know anything about. I remember picking out some Latin records and some Brazilian records in this and that. You don't know what there was no Internet. There was no way to find out who is this artist. What kind of music is this? Am I going to like this? It's complete crapshoot. Yeah. But some of them, I really, really like. And then I'd go back the next day. The next morning go, I'm going to get some more by that person. See what their other ones are like. I was staying at a kind of house that had a record player in it. So I could come back and put the record on and go, oh, that's really nice. Let's go get another one by the way. Right. And so this was Brazilian music, humans. A little bit of Cuban, some salsa. Yeah. And in fact, just the other thing that I think has really one of numerous things that's distinguished the work since you begin the solo career is just a interest in inclusion of all of these influences right from around the world in your music, but also collaborations. I think you were the last person to collaborate with Selena, right? Exactly. Yeah. And then everyone fat boy slim to yes. I've been teased about collaborating with everyone, but I find it really stimulating. Yeah. Sometimes it fails. Sometimes you end up with something that's just like, we didn't really click, but sometimes you really get something that you never would have gotten before. It kind of pushes you to do something a little bit different. That was an interesting one. The song with Selena was done for a film called Don Juan de Marco. Yeah, Brando, right? Yeah, it was Brando and Johnny Depp. Yeah, right. And I thought, wow, okay, okay. They had a scene where I think they go into a Latin dance club. And they wanted to have some music playing, but they wanted it to be like some Latin music, but somebody recognizable to help an audience kind of find a way. And so I thought, oh, let's try David Byrne. He does that kind of thing. So it was their idea. And I knew who Selena was. And I said, absolutely. I'm down for this. In fact, I have kind of the beginnings of a song which I would like to then I'll just send it to her in Texas and to hurt people. Let's see where that goes. Yeah, so I did not go, I never met her. Oh, really? No, no, we all talked on the phone. Oh my goodness. We all talked on the phone and I sent the multi track tape, which is a big thing. I mean, what's it like? It's like a laptop. Maybe a stack of like three laptops. Yeah, right, right. Something like that. It's about that size. And you sent that. And then she recorded her vocal basically as an answer. To my vocal. It's sort of like what you were doing when you were first experimenting as a kid, right? Yeah. Taping over things. Yeah, so she recorded as an answer to my vocal and it was just, it was, to me, you've just magical. Yeah. She brought a whole kind of heart and emotion to it. I thought the song was very tender and emotional to begin with, but she kind of lifted it to this ecstatic level that I just thought, wow. I'm really happy with this. 'cause that's where you're gonna be going next place all ghetto said leave it on that's where you're gonna go oh come on go on through slow your witness my love look at
Awards Chatter
"david byrne" Discussed on Awards Chatter
"Of rant of the verses. Once in a lifetime water flowing underground and you may ask yourself how do I work this? And you may ask yourself
Awards Chatter
"david byrne" Discussed on Awards Chatter
"Examined some of the oddest spookiest manifestations of modern emotional life, sang songs that turned grim tidings into deadpan jokes and disaffection into disarming social parables. While noting that his lyrics, quote, played four wall handball with enemy and floating all around the band's cunning and enterprising rhythms, moved the heads past punk and over the crest of rock's new wave into a forefront, they had sharpened up for themselves. The heads were a prominent part of a creative community that kicked avant garde into a single swift stream. They adopted their thematic boldness from artists, and their music inventiveness from sources as diverse as Philip glass and James Brown. They started out in the punk new wave era, but outlasted and outclassed it. I'm talking, of course, about David Byrne. Over the course of our conversation at the Los Angeles offices of a 24, the 70 year old and I discussed the origin and dissolution of Talking Heads and the stories behind some of their most celebrated tunes, the musical influences from abroad that have shaped his solo work ever since, the Oscar contending original song, this is a life that he co wrote with mitzi and Ryan lott for the a 24 film, everything everywhere all at once. Plus, much more. And so without further ado, let's go to that conversation. David, thank you so much for doing this. It's honored to have you on the podcast. And on this podcast, we always begin by asking our guests where they were born and raised and what their parents did for a living. Oh, that's nice. I was born in Scotland. And then my family and family moved to Canada and eventually to Baltimore when I was about 7 or 8 and so I did most of my growing up in suburban Baltimore until I went to college now growing up how big a role did music play in your household, whether it was listening to it or making it, how did that factor into things? Oh, it had a huge influence. My parents didn't play instruments, but I remember at certain points, they played. They listened to records. Scottish folk music or American folk music like Woody Guthrie or Pete Seeger, then they'd sometimes listen to classical music like Mozart or something like that. Some of it stuck with me. Certainly things like Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger and those songs. I can still remember those songs. And when he got through he did a record of children's songs that I can kind of remember, but it seemed like another world. And then, of course, at some point in early adolescence, I had a little transistor radio, which is for those of you who don't know what those are. About the size of a pack of cigarettes, they were the music quality. The sound quality was probably less than your phone. But that was a lot of people's introduction to pop music in different ways. And so do you like anyone else? I tuned into the radio and heard stuff and kind of blew my mind and I realized, oh, there's another world out there. There's another world, and it's the world, I want to know more about this. I don't know if this was just to give an example, but in another interview you had said that mister tambourine man, which was covered by the birds, including pest guests of this podcast, David Crosby. That that one kind of made you said it was like a past, let me find the exact phrase, like a little telegraph from someplace else. You said kind of calling you to get out of Baltimore. Yes. It was like a message. You could hear it in the sound of the record. Not even in the words which were very mysterious and I thought what does this mean? It's this is some kind of coded language. I don't know what they're saying, but it's really exciting. It's obviously speaking to my generation and the people maybe a little bit older than me. And they belong to another world that I'm not in contact with here in the suburbs. Now up to that point though, had you done any making of music yourself? I'd read one thing where your mother said that at the age of 15, you went to something in Montreal that kind of blew your mind as well. Not too many years after that, yes, when I was in junior high, high school, yes, I taught myself how to play guitar. My dad had a real tape recorder, has oddly enough people sometimes had those then. I would, he modified it so that I could record what's called sound on sound. Which is something that Les Paul gets credit credit for inventing, where you could kind of play along with yourself and it would merge what was on the tape with what your performance and then you'd get the other thing. In the process of doing that, you basically destroyed what was on the tape before. So you only had one chance to do it. But it was still, wow. I can do this. So I was doing that by that point, friends from school and I would trade records, the way people do. Vinyl. And throw over to someone's house and you'd bring your latest record find and go listen to this, listen to this. You have to know about this. At some point, yes, my parents probably my parents sister and I went to I think it was called expo 65 maybe in Montreal. It was, they had these things called world's fairs. And it's not so much musically, but kind of visually and conceptually kind of blew my mind. There was these amazing things in the Czech pavilion where they had a kind of film where the audience could decide like choose your own adventure. The audience could have buttons on the chairs that you could say they'd pause the film and go, okay, should it go this way or that way? And then there was another thing where there was this multi layered slide projection thing. There were kind of, I remember there were films where it was like 360 all or all around you. Those kinds of things. It was just like this amazing world of possibilities that kind of loomed in front of you and go, wow, all these things. Oh, there's all these things that are possible that you can think of, not in the ways that we normally do, but there's all kinds of other ways of doing things. Experimental, yeah. Now, what was revelation? Revelation was a band I had probably this might have been junior high during junior high maybe. Yes. Clearly an ambitious name for ban we basically just cover songs of other stuff was on the radio. But that was really the first time you were part of a band and working with other musicians. Yes. First time I was part of band working with other musicians, I am pretty sure I was not the singer. But yeah,
Zero Credit(s)
"david byrne" Discussed on Zero Credit(s)
"That gary oldman churchill movie all fritz has his a weird rambling incoherent nece churchill. Interesting figure in his absolutely necessary for britain to survive world war two But then probably should've gone away. Yeah one one one could argue. So i'm not going to go through all the other winners instead amid a focus my efforts on one area in particular and a little segment. I'm going to call the henry hate corner ono. The as the h h c is here. Once again john terrain fiery fury down on the injustice that this academy of television awards people have doled out while henry drop the hammer. I'm going to give you a little bit of context so you can understand my ire. John others a particular category that is entitled outstanding variety special open parentheses pre recorded close parentheses. Okay an in this category of such things as David burns american utopia. Never seen it. But i love david byrne right. We've got eight. Forty six by dave chapelle. We have friends the reunion. is that variety. That's a question we're going to circle back to okay. We have a west wing special to Benefit win we all vote. Which i think was like a fundraiser. Shir we have bo burnham's inside that's not a variety show and we have hamilton. Hold on hold on so my a my issue is that they have decided to put a to exceptionally well crafted musicals into this category three. If you count david burns. American utopia yeah. I'm not familiar with american. Is is there a musical category. Perhaps not no there's no musical category That is ridiculous does all. They just are people singing in it. So it's variety. I guess singing and dancing. Those are two things. there's some variety there but like the the etymology of variety show is like shows shows that contain like sketch. Comedy improvised comedy. Musical numbers game show elements. I mean a word comes to mind. it's vaudeville. It's fahd village at originated in. It originated on the radio. Like the lawrence welk show right. Jackie gleason show gong. Show all those things. Were variety shows the colgate comedy hour. The is that a real thing just from that you should leave extensively. It might fictional. Yeah they had jazz and they had comedies at some variety. I just think it's really silly. Like sunny and share was a variety. Show muppet show was a variety show. These are variety shows right. These are not variety shows Live is arguably a reality of variety. Show now that i think that's a sketch comedy show. But it's gotta musical element. i'll fuck you right. Yeah variety case out of these people who do you think one. Oh boy david byrne hold on. Let me remember. who's in it. David byrne hamilton bo. Burnham dave chapelle any burrell's friends and the west wing and the west wing I'm gonna pessimistically say that the west wing one but i- badly hope that boettger..
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
"david byrne" Discussed on Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
"Consider the world around them as an outsider. You know because if you are part of the dominant culture if you're if you're a neuro typical if you think in a very similar way to the other people around you. There isn't much reason for you to to take a you. Know third eye perspective on what's going on right like if you're not an outsider in some way you can just ride with the current And certainly neuro divergences. Not the only version of that. You know what. I mean like you could be. I mean you could be african american in the united states for example and you know dominant culture is constantly forcing you to you. Know have a have an an outsider's perspective right exactly but that is that really is like you talked about thinking about the way they that costume affects the audience. Right like i'm a menswear writer and it's something so it's something i think about a lot and it is a question of like how do you you know if you're looking at it as a communication system which it is you know you're making choices and you are an artist you know what i mean I'm not sure what else to say. It's it doesn't seem like a disability when you're in it because you're in it it's like when you're when your child you can have be having what in retrospect might seem like an unhappy childhood. I'm not saying i did but you can't but you don't know that always you don't know what's because that's your only experience you don't have anything to compare it to and then later when you can get a bigger perspective you realize oh. I was not as social as some of these other people were. Do you think that you are a cheerful guy for the most part. Yes i think i am. Do you think that's gesture how you're born into the. I do think it's like a choice you made if it's a choice it's one. I'm unaware of. But i find a lot of the people things in the world kind of amazing kind of marvelous surprising and sometimes very funny. There's a lot of joy in that. I mean if you can walk down the street and see something you like and it makes you happy usually. That's that's happens fairly often. That happens fairly often. Take little pictures of things that i see on the street. What's something that you took a picture of recently. I think i was walking in a rural area. And i took pictures of trees looked like body parts. Some of them quite rude and some of them just kind of absurd looking. There was one where really it looked like. The the roots of the trees trees had grown out. And we're shaking hands with one another. They've intertwine from two different trees. David byrne thank you for taking all this time to talk to me and thank you for your your wonderful show. I'm excited i'm going to do what it takes to get to new york so i can see it in real life. Well thank you for that. David byrne the.
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
"david byrne" Discussed on Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
"I remember being is probably nineteen or twenty and quest love from the roots started getting really obsessed with fela kuti and i was on his message. Board okay player. You be posting about different fail stuff. And i was like i should check this out and when i first heard fail i was like. Oh how did i not know about this. One of the greatest music ever was like this is the most amazing thing i've ever heard in my entire life and i had not heard of it until nine months ago and i hear those sounds in talking heads records a lot. There's a lot of that you know is dance music where there's a lot of stuff going on you know. There's a lot of interplay that came a little bit later but yes started being aware of african pop music me severe in later on our very immersed in kind of latin american music and boorda was pop music singer. Songwriter dance bands. Whatever yes this was all part of new york to this Not so much. That african bands they would come through occasionally play to to the community but the latin music was just all over new york and during that period. Just clubs everywhere. It didn't obviously. There was not a lot of crossover. With the kind of punk rockers type coexisted they existed at the same time Joe kuba would occasionally play. Cbgb's correct say rabe. Roberto would you double bill with. They've played village gate. Which was is now bruce and they play their. I think was on thursdays. They had a series called salsa meets jazz. Where there be like ray burritos band and then some incredible jazz soloist. Pretty pretty good name. Who would sit in and kind of improvising. Take solos during some of the dance breaks and there was a dance floor in the club so the people would dance and there was tables around the side there was also. It was music for dancing. That was also really great music too. So yeah so. I realized that you can get people to move their bodies. If you play music that has that kind of rhythmic collection connection. You can kind of hang a lot of things on that you can hang a lot of ideas and what you want to say lyrical stuff musical stuff. Keep the groove going and you can really re carry a lot of baggage with that that things. That might seem difficult to put in front of an audience in other ways but if you've got their assets moving they're you know are you can kind of put a lot of things out there. I have read in a thousand different places people describing you as possibly being on the autism spectrum. And i don't know whether that's something that came from a diagnosis or came from just people saying well. This guy has a history of performing awkwardness onstage. Sometimes or or whatever. But i wondered like you know there are things that people associate with autism who are neuro typical that you know social awkwardness. Those kinds of things the sort of obvious things but like those differences in how brains work are much more expansive than just you know. It's challenging to read faces for somebody who's narrow divergent lake and i wondered if that is something that you thought about yourself and be if there are like ways you've noticed. Your brain is different from a lot of the people around you you know sensory sensitivities or ways you organize your thoughts and you're like oh you don't do that okay. Obviously i'm not socially awkward as was in the past when yes and i was fairly. Socially awkward in the past was very uncomfortable. Just kind of having normal conversations with people being around whole groups of people. So i'd hang around with some friends i have some friends and i'd hang around with and let them do the talking. And do the introduction. I would just kind of vicariously a be part of that. It some point. I'm fred this whole idea of. The spectrum became convinced idea that was being floated around in a friend of mine. Said david look. That's you that is definitely do. They always things they fit. I mean it was in my case was pretty mild not debilitating In as probably many people have said it's a kind of superpower away. You're very uncomfortable. Socially socially so. There are certain drawbacks. They're certainly big drawbacks in that way. But there's other advantages. I could concentrate focus on kind of learning guitar parts or writing or doing whatever it was i was doing before you can really focus because shuttle that other stuff out. You don't get distracted by that so that it's it has some advantages tend to want tends to take a view of the world as been described as like an anthropologist from mars you tend to as you said. Look at folks and go. Oh when people do this it means this and you're trying to understand. Why do people do this. Why do they act like that. Why do they say that. And why do they make. Does that face mean all those kinds of things. This is not nothing too extreme. That's it sounds a little exaggerated the as i describe it. But there's an element of that of in it's apparent and a lot of the songs that i've written where i'm trying to understand people's human behavior. What does it mean. what does that signify. What's that about. And everybody does that recognizes those things but not not. Everybody like steps back and goes. Oh why are you doing that. Which sometimes things like. Well that's just what we do but then when to stop and go but why are you doing. It is a very different thing. Yeah i mean. I think that that is true. For many to all artists is that there is something in their life that has led them to.
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
"david byrne" Discussed on Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
"Welcome back to balzac. i'm jesse for my guest. Is david byrne is of course the lead singer of the talking heads as well as a prolific and influential solo artist. This month marks the return of his live show. American utopia american utopia is a collection of burns songs. Both old and new there performed by eleven musicians on a big empty stage every musician in the show performs marching band stop with their instruments in their hands or hanging from a strap. everything's wireless to with nothing. Binding them to one spot. The musicians can dance and move completely.
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
"david byrne" Discussed on Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
"I. i done a tour for ten years ago or so tour where had some dancers and and myself and some of the singers we all. Dan did some dancing together but the band was pretty fixed. And then i did a tour not too long ago with any clark was saint vincent and we've done a record featured a lot of brass instruments so we brought along a whole brass section immediately. I thought oh brass section there like a marching band we can. They can move around. They can play while they're moving. They some of them have already done that in their past. And we just put mics on them and we can make a whole choreographic thing. Where sometimes they form a circle and sometimes they former line and sometimes they're kind of doing this crossing back and forth and doing all kinds of so we did that and i thought we can change the whole stage picture or the stage arrangement for every song to some extent as you said a- rather than being stuck with drummer upstage in the back and bass player on one side and guitar player. Honey otherside and that's what you get for the whole evening. Thought no you can move them around. We can move them around. And then i thought oh. Let's see if the technology exists to do it for everybody not just whatever guitar player or whatever if we in how many how many players as a take to achieve kind of drum sound the way you would like an new orleans second line group whatever how many is it gonna take can afford that. Is it possible to a wireless keyboard is is that technically possible. Turns out it is. I had wasn't sure but yet we found some kind of technology that was being made in hungary or someplace and that allowed. That's always said okay. We're doing every we're going to try it for everybody. We had to do a test. Who had to go to lititz or manheim. Pennsylvania in Pennsylvania dutch country to do to do to test the technology what is distinctive quality of manheim pennsylvania. Oh it's kind of interesting What are the pa companies. You the sound for pop. Concert emerged and out of these small towns in pennsylvania And so they would build their speakers and all this kind of stuff and then they built a place for bands to rehearse for hersal room and then another company comes along and says well we're going to make the sets for all those big stadium shows where there's a huge set that's being made. We didn't do anything like that. But they so all the stuff emerged clumped in this rural area. It happens to be a place where a lot of highways cross now. There's a million like amazon. Warehouses around there and other kind of fulfillment centers because of the same same reason so that was a place where we could set up our whole sustained in technology and everything and really tested out. And so that's what i think There was a yeah. There was some very big pop artist. It's gonna come to minor remembering the second who is rehearsing on the other place. But we weren't. We weren't allowed to go in and watch. You're you're i'm david byrne card. Didn't work now. it does not work. No they don't want to give you a land your do can show and they'll let you backstage where okay it was. It was katy perry. And but i can understand what they don't want with social media everything they don't want any pictures of any any upcoming thing that they're working on to get out so yeah okay. Okay we'll wrap up with david byrne in just a minute. Stay with us. It's bulls eye for maximum fund dot org an npr. This message comes from npr sponsor. Oh do you run a business or manage a team. It's time to switch to odu. Do is a suite of business. Applications designed to streamline automate and simplify any company. Odu has apps are everything. Crm inventory factoring sales account. You name odors gotcha covered so stop wasting time and start getting stuff done with odu for free. Trial go depot dot com slash bullseye. Hey podcast fan. We'd like to get a better idea of who you are. And what you care about. So if a quick favorite ask if you have a few minutes to spare please go to maximum fun dot org slash ad survey there. We've got a short anonymous survey. That will take about five minutes to fill out pasta. You finish it. You'll get a ten percent discount on merge at the max fund store next fun shows have always relied on support from our members and always will this survey will help keep the few ads. We do run interesting and relevant to you. That's maximum fine dot org slash at survey ag s. You are the all one word.
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
"david byrne" Discussed on Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
"Of that loop Don't remember going to parties. I remember were when i was an adolescent. There was this thing in the neighborhood called the teen center and they would have bans bunch of kids just playing in the school cafeteria and bands with local bands. Were playing there. And i just blew me away. One band came to me to my years at that point. They sounded exactly like the beatles. I thought how they do this. And then the next week or the week after that there was another group that came through and it had all the moves so the temptations they'd learned all the temptations dance moves and they had this very intricate choreography and i thought had they do that. And yes that was. That was the thing. I would love to be in a c plus version of the temptations. Like do the moves where the fits like that. Sounds like the greatest. Like i'm. i'm not a strong singer. I'm not strong dancer. I have outfits but lack i would you could. You wouldn't have to work very hard to sell me on being in doing temptation songs in a community center percent. Show me the moves and you can imagine yes says. A young person sees that in gaza boy. Does that. look like fun boy. If only i could do that. Yeah were there. Bits of the kind of Standard received orthodoxy that you questioned as a young man. Vat applying questioning them. You're like nope. I accept it Questioned it and actually it's great. I'm gonna have trouble coming up with a good example right now but you're absolutely right. There are things where you have to kind of throw it out and rejected and then at some point you learn. Oh there's a reason for that is the reason we do that. Or that's that's done that way and if you can then learn how to do that in your own way then then got something. I mean some of those things like in performance it might be like how you enter the stage and how you leave Those kinds of things. Which i see it and you go. Oh it's over dramatic or it's so this or that and you realize it's a really important moment in it actually tells the audience a lot and you don't have to do it the same way as everybody else. But there's a. There's a reason why that is considered an kind of worked out. In some way. I mean i think the stage presentation of american utopia is so distinct in the musical performances have certain aesthetic to them that is determined by the band right like a a big band sits on a on those risers. You know what i mean like. Nah behind those behind those art deco music stands or like a rock band has a drummer that comes up out of the floor. That's in the back on one side and the guitarist on the other side and lead singer in the middle right and you have made the choice to divorce the entire banned from like the physical requirements of the traditional physical requirements of being in a band by giving everybody an instrument that they can play either in their hands or with a shoulder. Strap breaking.
Here & Now
"david byrne" Discussed on Here & Now
"Jeff brady and news philadelphia. Republicans a handful of states are now considering mimicking the new texas law that bans abortion after six weeks and deputises private citizens to enforce that law. One of those states mississippi already has different law on the books banning the procedure after fifteen weeks. That law is currently not in effect. The supreme court will hear a challenge to it this fall but a bigger question is what threatened. Mississippi's law could have on access to abortions. Nationwide and with us as mary ziegler. She's a hit legal historian and law professor at florida state university. She's also the author of abortion and the law in america and she joins us now with more welcome. Thanks for having me. Thank you for being here mary. There are notable differences between the texas law and the mississippi law but the broader challenge is. Mississippi's request the supreme court. Overturn roe versus wade which legalized abortion throughout the us. Can you break down. Mississippi's arguments specific to roe versus wade. Yes so mississippi in texas really in a way to are focused on what they view as weakness of row. Which is the idea that there's a right to choose abortion before viability. Which is the point at which us survival is possible outside the womb and viability has been criticized by bioethicists by some of the justices on the supreme court and so worship opponents of fixated on it as a sort of opening to attack abortion rights more broadly but mississippi i think recognizes. That viability is gone then. The court has modified row and really fundamental ways. And either that would open the door. Overturning roe this year in twenty twenty two or two weakening that precedence substantially so that the court might overrule it for example in in twenty twenty three which would be around the time row would be turning fifty. The justices have reportedly deliberate it privately for months on whether to review this mississippi law. And we know that the court has never really come close to overturning roe v wade but now we have this texas decision. Does that give us any indication about the court may decide in this mississippi case. I mean yes and no because texas went to great lengths to avoid direct confrontation with row. The state designed. It's law in such a way that it would be very difficult to challenge in federal court using this doctrine called sovereign immunity. So because of the eleventh amendment. It's very hard to sue. States directly and the only path to doing that is to sue a state official who charged with enforcing a constitutional law but texas as you mentioned instead deputises private citizens and only private citizens to sue abortion providers and people who aid or abet those seeking abortions and so the state has said there is no official who can enforce this law there therefore there is no way to challenge it in federal court so even if it directly contradicts. Roe v wade. Which does there's no way a federal court can actually do anything about it. So the supreme court seem to be buying that argument which doesn't tell us necessarily what the court would do with a law that does directly confront roe v wade like the mississippi statute on the other hand. I it seems to me that a court that was seriously concerned about the right to choose. Abortion would not have been so cavalier about letting law go into effect that if effectively eliminates abortion and one of the nation's most populous states. So it's certainly not a good sign if you're concerned about our right to choose abortion i wanna break down two points that that you previously made. How much does president actually matter here. Well i mean. Precedent will be huge when we're thinking about what's going to happen with mississippi because we have a six justice majority comprised of conservatives and most court watchers believe that those conservatives are not convinced on the merits that there is or should be a right to choose abortion so the only reason those justices may hesitate to reverse row is because they believe in precedent or because they want to at least appear as if they believe in precedent so i think the question becomes whether the justices think that the the precedent of row has been weekend or contradicted so much by things like this texas law that there's nothing much left for them to have to respect or salvage and that's certainly the argument that abortion opponents have made in recent years. You also use this term fixated on the viability argument. I mean there has definitely been a chipping away at this essentially roe versus wade says women have the right to an abortion before viability. But there's no universal agreement as you said this is why we're seeing so many heartbeat bills pass republican legislatures. But can you break this down for us a little bit more. What we're talking about here when we say viability when we're talking about viability we're talking about a point at which a premature delivery of some kind is likely result in survival and the supreme court in one thousand nine hundred ninety three set viability as the point at which states could ban abortion and it wasn't particularly as far as we know based on the historical evidence the most important part of the court's opinion. In fact harry blackmun at one point had thought of making the abortion rights. Stop at the end of the first trimester but some of his colleagues Particularly thurgood marshall argued that that would make it impossible for people of color to access abortion. Because they might not be able to get resources to do so so early in pregnancy so central viability has been the dividing line. But it's always been controversial so bioethicists have asked whether viability is a good reflection of when we think human life takes on moral or.
Here & Now
"david byrne" Discussed on Here & Now
"The northeast still cleaning up all of the destruction caused by the remnants of hurricane ida last week at least fifty people died and while residents in some public health officials were surprised by the severe weather. Storms like this or what. Scientists have long warned about jeff brady from npr's climate team reports in bridgeport pennsylvania about one in the morning thursday vernon perry says the nearby river was rising and the fire department. Woke him up. They just were saying evacuate. Now get out the only chance you to go. Now get out run. There wasn't even time to move his car. It's flooded like others on this street a front loader hauls them to waiting trucks at the end of the muddy blocked. Brenda night is sitting under front step next to the sidewalk. Where a pipe. Gushes water into the street. It's being pumped up from her basement. The water came up to the first floor here and first floor. My rug was soaking wet in. There has whether she expected such a severe storm because of climate change. Not at all. This is a complete surprise. We had no idea of the magnitude of the damage. That was going to be called even new york governor. Kathy hokuto who talks about climate change fueling. More severe storms was surprised. We did not know that between eight fifty nine fifty pm that the heavens literally open up and bring niagara falls level water to the streets of new york. It's one thing to talk about the effects of climate change. It's another to experience them. Says burnet. woods blackie chief meteorologist with climate centro even. If you said to her there was going to be over three inches of rain in one hour if she's never seen that what does that mean. What does that look like. What does that look like on the ground. Same for the rest of us but we're getting more examples. There was superstorm. Sandy new york and new jersey nine years ago. The pacific northwest now understands what days of one hundred plus degree weather is like and across the country more people are experiencing wildfires and hazardous smoke.
Here & Now
Climate Change Blamed for Havoc in Northeast US Floods
"The northeast still cleaning up all of the destruction caused by the remnants of hurricane ida last week at least fifty people died and while residents in some public health officials were surprised by the severe weather. Storms like this or what. Scientists have long warned about jeff brady from npr's climate team reports in bridgeport pennsylvania about one in the morning thursday vernon perry says the nearby river was rising and the fire department. Woke him up. They just were saying evacuate. Now get out the only chance you to go. Now get out run. There wasn't even time to move his car. It's flooded like others on this street a front loader hauls them to waiting trucks at the end of the muddy blocked. Brenda night is sitting under front step next to the sidewalk. Where a pipe. Gushes water into the street. It's being pumped up from her basement. The water came up to the first floor here and first floor. My rug was soaking wet in. There has whether she expected such a severe storm because of climate change. Not at all. This is a complete surprise. We had no idea of the magnitude of the damage. That was going to be called even new york governor. Kathy hokuto who talks about climate change fueling. More severe storms was surprised. We did not know that between eight fifty nine fifty pm that the heavens literally open up and bring niagara falls level water to the streets of new york. It's one thing to talk about the effects of climate change. It's another to experience them. Says burnet. woods blackie chief meteorologist with climate centro even. If you said to her there was going to be over three inches of rain in one hour if she's never seen that what does that mean. What does that look like. What does that look like on the ground. Same for the rest of us but we're getting more examples. There was superstorm. Sandy new york and new jersey nine years ago. The pacific northwest now understands what days of one hundred plus degree weather is like and across the country more people are experiencing wildfires and hazardous smoke.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"david byrne" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Studios presenting one night in Miami from director Regina King and writer Kim Powers inspired by true events that took place on one legendary night in 1964 awards eligible available on Prime video. This is W N. Y c. 93.9 FM and AM a 20. NPR News and the New York conversation. Tomorrow night at 11 on our next new sounds, will hear music that features in a lead role the trumpet and the French horn instruments that aren't often thrust into that role. This music in the background is from Carm, which is the number two disc of CJ camaraderie. The trumpeter and French horn player of Why music The genre hopping band based here in New York and form has roped in a whole bunch of Guest singers for some vocal tracks. Shara Nova Suk Young Stephens number of others. But most of the striking textures on the record are from his instruments. And the same goes for the new album by singer Theo Bleckmann and the Western leaves a trumpet trombone quartet some beautiful textures. The era's well also music from David Byrne, Sharon Freeman and more tomorrow night. 11 he's used for this'd Ishan of new sounds is in our audio archives. As always, It's.
WGN Radio
"david byrne" Discussed on WGN Radio
"Dot com slash healthy. Speaking of David Byrne, you're listening to Chicago's afternoon news here on 7 20. W G. And I'm Steve Berg, friend. By the way, Kevin the name of the town in Wisconsin, with the famous ground hog is Sun prairie. Okay, It was lovely. I think it is lovely. It's just north of Milwaukee. Not not Milwaukee, just north of Madison. I believe Sun Prairie. Okay? Yeah, he insurers Here's a senior editor from cnet dot com E and Welcome back. Hi. How you doing? I'm great. Thanks. You know, I've learned Well, I mean, it's not allude election, but a lot of times you get alerts on your phone. And it's not really something that's breaking. It's just the news outlet trying to get your attention. So you click on their page. Right? That can happen. Is that the story? I read in the Tribune three days ago, and then it'll get alerted or something. So I just saw an alert from I think we're CNN. I've lost it now, but said that Google is getting out of the video game business is that news? It is somewhat news. So, uh, well, it is news. So Google has been investing very heavily, and we'll talk about untold millions of dollars. Perhaps more. To build what's called cloud gaming. And this is technology that allows you to play a video game. Kind of the same way that we watch Netflix right where it doesn't matter what box you've got in your home, right? You can use your Netflix video. So so these video games you can play from over the Internet. There's actually very strong, very powerful computer somewhere else, and it sends the signal to your box. You can have a really chip. You can do it on your phone. Cheap computer, whatever is still play very high end games. So this has been the technology that's been going and going. I've been covering it for over a decade since the first showed up and Google got into it a couple years ago. Well, they have now announced that they are no longer going to make games. It's worth noting that Google never released a video game well from this group, but They've admitted that they have not been. It is not been getting to where they think it should. So they're going to focus on the technology end of it, which means people still being able to play cloud gaming games and stuff like that. But they're not going to make him also my worth, noting Microsoft Sony, even Nintendo has tried this. All sorts of people were getting in on this, so it's not a new technology per se. But there are a lot of people concerned that Google would just kind of up and get out of it, because that's what Google does. They have a big announcement for something and then a couple years later, they just kill it off. So there's definitely a lot of people worried about that this time and saying I told you would happen, all right? It's coming up on 6 30 says, Actually, 6 21 right now, People are maybe making dinner Maybe cleaning up dinner. Maybe they're grading the ginger and saying I'm never going to do this again on Instead they're going to. I hate creating Ginger and that bad. Oh, it is. You've gotta peel it. Are you kidding me? I hate it. Um, anyway, so that But that's the sort of thing that with these home meal kits say it had grated ginger. You get a little plastic bag of grated ginger or whatever. And so you can cook. But you don't have to do stuff You don't want to do. Everything is measured out and things like that. Yeah, and they were going to be huge right in and then they sort of we're going to be all moving to the grocery store. And not be so. Home delivery. I wear that because last I heard what Where's the industry now? It's interesting, By the way you can fix your ginger problem by buying Trader Joe's has frozen grated ginger for you Really that zoo life hack to hacked baby. They also do it with garlic. It's awesome. Okay, so grown garlic. Way, Theo. Well, there you go, right? Yeah, but I'm saying it makes it easier when you don't want to. So, um, these home delivery kids, As you point out, we're gonna be a huge thing, And they turned out that these things cost more to run thin. People thought, you know when Blue apron was first becoming a thing, and then everyone else was doing it. There was the sense that this is the next generate right goodbye to the grocery store, and it turned out that blue apron was a very mediocre business. It's very hard to make money doing this, eh? So there's still a bunch of them out there. And, in fact, what's happened? I think the weapons of the road right across the river here Chicago company, isn't it? Yes s so The thing is that What's happened over time is they've kind of found ways to really kind of niche themselves. Right, So there's good. Is one for larger appetites. There's one for vegan stuff like that, right if you want to have kind of the Southern style home cooking, right, so we actually unseen that we break down what all of the other cut. All of these companies are good at right, And there's tons of them. There's purple carrot gobble. I mean, I didn't have anything in here about these until I read the story. I think we were. We were a hello fresh family for a while. Yeah, And and that's the thing they all gave a free trial for some time. A lot of that's over now, but still there's a lot of good food in there. And as you point out, the really huge benefit is that you don't have to go through the prep time. I will point out being married to an environmentalist that a lot of these things come in little plastic bags. So you do have Tiuna. Take that into account that you are creating a lot of trash. Or you could get a little table. Spoon size bottle of vanilla. Right there. A lot of little bottles involved as well. There are yes, that's true. Okay, So you guys raided them and I see you did the copper. You didn't pick the best one. You just came up with different categories because everyone's different right? Like Yeah, well, that's why we need people to grade him off. Well, I'll tell you, I I personally find that there are You know, I have my own stuff that I like that. I know when I've tried. I've tried the stuff once. But I've learned after talking to people that what I like and don't like about them is completely different from other be sure, so I think that's why we don't pick the best the best. But we try and break it down by if you like organic food, you know stuff like that. I mean, we say that the best friend in the mood for a curry Right, exactly the best one to start with his blue apron. If you have never done this before, and part of it is because they have very white selection. So that's one thing we do recommend. But even then, I mean, if you're looking for, you know, specific diet plans there once that are better at that, right there all sorts of stuff like that. Some of them are just super easy to do like dinner early. You can just It's a lot quicker to cook all those types of things. He wasn't What's the It's stove the oven. Where they were going to sell prepared meals. You know about that? I don't know if this is just a Chicago thing where you buy a special Desert, a countertop sort of cooker, and they send you the meal packets and then it cooks them for you. I don't. I don't remember that. There was just no. Which was the Silicon Valley failure of a juice company. That would so it send you the juice in a bag. Remember? No wood fresh squeeze it. Oh, my God. It's one of the most amazing moments ever. So it was. It was like I forget how much ridiculous amount of money they raised. And supposedly, this. This device they built was special made to press the bag that had all the fresh stuff in it and would put out the juice fresh for you. Oh, I do remember that. Yeah. Bloomberg, right, decided to get one of their hands on one of the bags and press it with their hands and it was justice. Good. Uh, yeah, that marketing guys looking for work. I'm talking about the Kalevala. You've never heard of that Avala. No. Yeah, I'll send you a link for it. It's I think it is a Chicago company, and it's a special oven like that. It looks like a microwave. Maybe, or smaller, toaster oven. Really, but they will send you.
News O'Clock
Spike Lee Is Working on a Movie Musical About Viagra
"Spike lee has announced his next big project and It's a little unexpected to say. The least he's going to direct a movie musical about pfizer's original wonder drug viagra. Yes viagra in a statement given to deadline leib wrote in part quote. Finally going into my fourth decade as a filmmaker. I will be directing danson all singing news a spike lee joint. And i can't wait. My mom's has been waiting to. And that's the rodgers and hammerstein truth ruth lee co wrote the screenplay with kwami armagh and it will feature original songs music written by the team behind the tony winning musical passing strange. This is exactly lee's first foray into the musical realm. He resigned directed a film version of david. Byrne's musical american
The Book Review
David Byrne on Turning 'American Utopia' Into a Book
"David byrne joins us now. He is of course the musician. The filmmaker visual artist and here primarily as an author of a new book. American utopia. he wrote it. And it's illustrated together with myra common david thank you so much for being here. Thank you this is obviously tied to a larger project began as a concert. Tour than a broadway show now. A film directed by spike lee and simultaneously a book. Can you talk to us a little bit for those who aren't familiar with american utopia which i feel like. I don't know who those people are at this point. But tell us about how you conceived of the project and the various forms in which it's appeared and was it all like known from the beginning that would be in these multiple formats going backwards. No it was not conceived from the beginning that would be all these multiple formats. I didn't imagine. In the beginning. That it would end up on broadway that that would be filmed serve one thing leads into another okay so in the beginning i imagined wanted to see if i could do a show where all the band members were mobile taught. The technology might have arrived where that would be possible. And it also required that i would have a sufficient budget because that would mean i would have to turn say drummer into six different players. All playing drum and percussion instruments like a drumline or a samba. School of something. Like got and i realized okay. That's more personnel. Can afford that a could. I went ahead with this. Which opened up opportunities for staging and choreography and movement and then lighting and everything else just follow. Once one thing was kinda complicated or decided then door would open. And you go okay. That means it then we can do this. And now i can do this except etcetera so some point during the tour. I kind of got wind that broadway producers had seen the show and thought probably i'm going to guess in response to the success of bruce springsteen's show people thought. Oh this can go to broadway. This could go to broadway in broadway. Audiences are ready for this kind of thing now. This is a thing that can be done very very different than bruce springsteen's show. But i think the idea was that whatever popular music contemporary music could work on broadway thing just didn't have to be all broadway music. I wrote additional things for the broadway version extended it reshaped it unused broadway. Audience would kind of come with different sets of expectations but also kind of opportunity for me to talk more to kind of shape the show in a different way kind of address things that you may not addressing a concert tour where people basically just wanna dance and have a lot of fun. The director alex timbers was helping out and he said david you know you could maybe have a a drop curtain here and that in a certain kind of way when the audience is coming in and staring at the stage and the curtain is down in some ways you can have an image that sort of prepares them and in a little bit in a way for what's coming and tear. Myra coleman yes and alex showed me kind of an old graphic. Did he probably got off the internet. That was sort of like the fifty states and what each state is known for and this may be done like in the forties or fifties or something like that. It's a school thing. What were your favorite states. Because you're laughing. I'm laughing laughing because you know you can imagine the some corn and some of them mining or of them are cattle. Oh yes and so. It was also folklore folklore from each state. So the be paul bunyan or casey jones. John henry all these american kind of bits and legends were in there. And i thought okay in wanna do that exactly but i thought that's a nice direction. Thank you alex. So i went to myra who i'd worked with before many many many years ago and said would you be interested in doing drawings and paintings for this curtain.
TIME's Top Stories
A Look into Broadway Hit 'David Byrne's American Utopia'
"David Burns American Utopia is a grand and glorious plea for Human Connection. By Stephanie's a carrick. Sometimes to make art, you've got to build art to layer ideas, colors, values, and textures. Until you've shape, the thing that says what you want to say, David Burns American Utopia Spike, Lee's grand and glorious filmed record of the hit Broadway show of the same name coming to HBO October. Seventeenth is art that has been built a work of great joy inexpressive Nece Tower of song with room for everybody the music some numbers drawn from burns twenty eighteen album American utopia others from. His body of work with talking heads and one a cover of Janelle. Monet's two thousand, fifteen protests anthem hell you tom bowed feels fresh and familiar at once inclusive but also mildly explosive there's an urgency to it as if burn and his troupe of eleven, musicians and dancers were staking ground in a battle we shouldn't even have to fight the idea is that to survive to live in any meaningful way, we must stay connected. It's a principal so glaringly simple at its radical. Burn is an admittedly weird ambassador for the idea of connection. He isn't what you'd call a naturally warm presence at least not in Earth terms even at age sixty eight, he's still like an. Learning. The rules of the planet his awkwardness is his brand but his desire to connect is robust and had vitalize is everything that happens onstage during American Utopia. no-one initial has one job. The musicians are also dancers and singers. Their instruments are strapped to their bodies untethered to any bulky sound equipment, which leaves them free to move and dance around the stage in a series of elegantly orchestrated numbers with burn off at the center though sometimes lurking at the edges like living fringe of the proceedings, the choreography is by dance veteran antibeach Parson all the performers including burn where identical lunar grey suits and all are barefoot. The stage is bordered on three sides by a Shimmery chainlink curtain the grand scheme is. Simple yet never chilly. This is a setting a world where certain essential problems have been worked out creating the space and freedom to play, and so even the songs every longtime burn or talking heads Fan knows well, like this must be the place naive melody a moonlit cottage in ballad form or the Wrigley waggling noodle dance. Slippery people take on new shapes and new life between numbers burn addresses the audience directly spinning amusing tales about where these songs came from. He wrote is Zimba with its lyrics by German Dada poet. Hugo. Ball to respond to a challenge thrown down by his friend and collaborator Brian Eno or us to fulfil our civic responsibilities. He uses lighting trick to show how badly the citizenry is represented when only twenty percent of the population votes and as a prelude to the shows Shiver Inducing version of hell you tom about he explains that he asked Monet's permission before venturing to cover the Song Burns band here. Is racially mixed, but he himself is very, very white. No wonder he approached with caution but he and his band present the song and invocation written in two thousand fifteen for all of us to remember the names of murdered black citizens among them Eric Garner Trayvon. Martin and Amatil. With the synthesis of respect and bristling anger it demands. This number also represents one of the few times league cuts away from this show to flash larger than life portraits at the. Victims, often held by a family member on the screen. It's an act of boldness that works as for burn. He is as ever a wildly and captivating showman though his hair is now snowcap wide his dance moves in changed over the years he's still favors angular Turkey jerky movements like the folding and unfolding of corporate tres ruler, which are often mimicked to grand effect by the dancers around him. But as dazzling as he is, you can take your eyes off him. Than receding his fellow performers become dazzling planets in their own right sometimes, they'll face one another playing to each other even as they played a was other times they marched toward us, resolutely in groups or pairs as if to say, look at any of US individually or all of us at once you can't go wrong. Each performer's style is as distinctive as a fingerprint. There's the cool Tomboy Swagger of Guitarist Andrew Swan the kid next door jubilant of bassist bobby wooden as once in a lifetime rounds to its sublime peak percussion as Jack, Lena Salvato bursts through the Shimmery. Chain curtain with a clash of cymbals a human celebrate Ori- announcement Lee working with one of his regular collaborators cinematographer. Ellen Kuras doesn't just show us the action he too is part of its embrace. He's our stand in our fellow observer in awe though he has the advantage of wielding a camera at the close of the show as the performer snake through the crowd during a rapturous version of road to nowhere Lee turns his camera on the audience American Utopia ran from October two thousand nineteen to February twenty twenty at Broadway's Hudson. Theater, and is said to return to Broadway. Next September and we see it for what it is. This is a group of largely white middle aged people who came of age listening to talking heads as a bunch. They're far less diverse than the performers we've been watching onstage a you could argue that with American utopia burn is preaching to the choir that this is all just an exercise in self congratulatory white liberalism but that would be missing the point in one of his Inbetween Song riffs burn muses that there are lots of interesting things to look at in the world there are bicycles which he famously likes. Very Much Lee even shows him riding away from the show on one and beautiful sunsets and even a bag of potato chips can be visually beguiling but somehow we always comeback to human faces looking at people burn says that's the best American Utopia is about facing the person in front of you or next to you or standing behind you and doing the work of seeing to truly see a person is a kind of song and a world filled with those songs is the ideal to get started burning his troop have hummed a few bars. The rest is up to us.
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Sen. Cory Gardner: Land Management agency moving west
"Meeting the agency that manages federal lands could soon be located close to the lands that it manages the BLM intends to move from DC to the western slope of Colorado the announcement that the bureau of land management will be moving to Grand Junction that it will be headquartered in Grand Junction is a significant significant win for Colorado sender Gardner says most of the lands the BLM manages our west of the Mississippi River but there could be a snag in the process any move still has to be funded by Congress Aaron Weiss with the center for western priorities says the announcement was made before consulting with the chair of the house natural resources committee already has a strained relationship with interior secretary David Byrne hard so is David Barnhart actually wanted to make this happen you wouldn't be blind sided the guy he needs to sign off on it so all of this just reeks of a P. R. stocked Weiss also call center gardeners announcement the possible
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Black Filmmakers Make History in 2018, but Female Directors Still Shut Out says Study
"And of the filmmakers behind those movies only four point three percent where women and in terms of progress. Twenty eighteen was worse for female directors than the year before as their share of jobs plummeted from seven point three percent to three point six percent. And for those of you who understand Matt that's a drop of more than fifty percent right in. I think that when we look at female directors, and we look at the trends across the twelve years. I think what we're seeing here is a problem for women in general. But when we look to women of color, there were only nine out of one thousand three hundred and thirty five hires in sue we really have to think about intersection -ality when we talk about. Female directors because we're really seeing a floor effect, particularly with women of color, and it's also not just men who get jobs. It's white men almost all the time fewer than ten percent of the male directors from those twelve hundred films were either black or Asian absolutely now. One interesting finding that we do have in the report is that we took a deep dive on the last three hundred films over the last three years, and what we do see just over that shorter amount of time. We see a notable uptick from thirteen percent of all directors in two thousand sixteen or from underrepresented racial ethnic groups and in twenty eighteen that number jumps to twenty two percent. So we're seeing progress it's not as fast or a steep, perhaps as some of us would like to see, but I think it becomes really important to acknowledge the positive steps that Hollywood has taken and. And the giant leaps that still need to happen for particularly women and other underrepresented groups of behind the camera. You did a couple of things in this study that I was really interested in one is what all call the Sundance effect. And that is men who have successful independent films seem to have a much easier. Time moving from Sundance to big budget productions than women what are the numbers say about that? Well, what we're seeing really interestingly in the research is that there's a a one and done phenomenon for most women they get one chance across this twelve year span of time, whereas their male counterparts get more at bats. If you will, and this is really problematic because it affects the career sustainability for female directors in what if you really look at the data closely. What you see is that the studios are adding a few new women each year as opposed to going. Back to the the roster of talent, and including them in hiring decisions as well.