David Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve
via ted.com
Not the best-delivered talk I've ever heard -- and he definitely loses it a bit towards the end -- but still, it's interesting.
I'm sure I've heard the artistic 'limited by the shape of the vessel' argument before, I'm just not sure where.
I guess a portable MP3 player is simply a tool. Much like a painter's work extends beyond the canvas, to the frame, to where it will hang.
And if you agree -- if form really does limit function -- then surely that puts engineers above artists.
I wonder if Michelangelo would've invented the chisel, if someone hadn't done it before him...
