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From the Ted Talk by David Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve

Unscramble the Blue Letters

And I thought: Well, if this is a model for ceatiorn, if we make music, primarily the form at least, to fit these cxtentos, and if we make art to fit gallery wllas or museum walls, and if we write srawotfe to fit existing operating systems, is that how it works? Yeah. I think it's evolutionary. It's atpaidve. But the pleasure and the passion and the joy is still there. This is a reverse view of things from the kind of traditional Romantic view. The Romantic view is that first comes the passion and then the outpouring of emotion, and then somehow it gets sheapd into something. And I'm saying, well, the passion's still there, but the vesesl that it's going to be injected into and poured into, that is instinctively and intuitively created first. We already know where that passion is going. But this conflict of views is kind of interesting.

Open Cloze

And I thought: Well, if this is a model for ________, if we make music, primarily the form at least, to fit these ________, and if we make art to fit gallery _____ or museum walls, and if we write ________ to fit existing operating systems, is that how it works? Yeah. I think it's evolutionary. It's ________. But the pleasure and the passion and the joy is still there. This is a reverse view of things from the kind of traditional Romantic view. The Romantic view is that first comes the passion and then the outpouring of emotion, and then somehow it gets ______ into something. And I'm saying, well, the passion's still there, but the ______ that it's going to be injected into and poured into, that is instinctively and intuitively created first. We already know where that passion is going. But this conflict of views is kind of interesting.

Solution

  1. contexts
  2. vessel
  3. shaped
  4. adaptive
  5. creation
  6. software
  7. walls

Original Text

And I thought: Well, if this is a model for creation, if we make music, primarily the form at least, to fit these contexts, and if we make art to fit gallery walls or museum walls, and if we write software to fit existing operating systems, is that how it works? Yeah. I think it's evolutionary. It's adaptive. But the pleasure and the passion and the joy is still there. This is a reverse view of things from the kind of traditional Romantic view. The Romantic view is that first comes the passion and then the outpouring of emotion, and then somehow it gets shaped into something. And I'm saying, well, the passion's still there, but the vessel that it's going to be injected into and poured into, that is instinctively and intuitively created first. We already know where that passion is going. But this conflict of views is kind of interesting.

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Important Words

  1. adaptive
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  4. contexts
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  30. shaped
  31. software
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