How Music Works is David Byrne’s remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he’s spent a lifetime thinking about. He explains how profoundly music is shaped by its time and place, and how the advent of recording technology forever changed our relationship to playing, performing, and listening to music. Acting as historian and anthropologist, raconteur and social scientist, he searches for patterns—and tells us how they have affected his own work over the years with Talking Heads and his many collaborators. Touching on the joy, physics, and the business of making music, he also shows how it is inextricably linked to its cultural and physical context. His range is panoptic, taking us from La Scala to African villages, from his teenage reel-to-reel recordings to his latest work in a home music studio. How Music Works is a brainy, irresistible adventure and an impassioned argument about music’s liberating, life-affirming power.

●《時代周刊》盛贊大衛•拜恩為“搖滾的文藝復興人”。

●作為搖滾史上最具原創性和影響力樂隊“傳聲頭像”的主唱和靈魂人物，大衛•拜恩一次次帶領樂隊進入未知領域，其前衛的實驗性和藝術性深刻地影響瞭流行樂的發展，並入選西方搖滾樂最高榮譽“搖滾名人堂”。

●1987年，大衛•拜恩與日本音樂人阪本龍一及我國作麯傢蘇聰閤作，為影片《末代皇帝》創作音樂，贏得瞭奧斯卡、金球和格萊美三大奬項的認可。拜恩還是一位視覺藝術傢，於2006年齣版瞭寫生作品集《植物園》（Arboretum）。

●藝術創作之外，拜恩還是積極支持騎自行車齣行的踐行者，他享受騎行給自己帶來的自由和興奮。直到現在，他都將自行車作為齣行的主要工具。2009年，在齣版瞭《自行車日記》（Bicycle Diaries）之後，拜恩拍賣瞭自己的摺疊式自行車，為倫敦自行車運動協會募資。