David Byrne: “I must have 1,000 tubas!”

BrassoProfundo · Post by **BrassoProfundo** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 10:05 pm

Apparently David Byrne has been wrestling with a 1000 tuba fantasy composition. Hmmm, how might TubeNet help him realize this unrealistic fantasy...?

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UDELBR · Post by **UDELBR** » Sun Dec 22, 2013 2:04 am

Really? Seems to me he's speaking about how wholly unserious a number of tubas (and by extension, even one...) are in a 'truly creative' setting.

DB: And if you’re going to do something at Lincoln Center, there’s a pretty prescribed set of things you are going to do. You can push that form, but kind of from inside the genre. So I guess I’m saying that a lot of creative decisions are kind of made for us, and the trick is then working creatively within those constraints.

Interviewer: And that genius appears when it is perfectly suited to its context.

DB: To me, yeah – that’s where the skill lies. Making those adaptations and making that work, and not just standing up and saying, “I must have 1,000 tubas!”

BrassoProfundo · Post by **BrassoProfundo** » Sun Dec 22, 2013 8:47 pm

That's not how I read it. But tubas do seem to play in his musical imagination, possibly in a conflicted (dissonant?) way.

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