An Evening with David Byrne @ Paramount Theatre

The world may be collapsing around us, but we can always count on David Byrne to make sense of it, humor it, mock it, analyze it. Like the RISD alum alien he is, and through the crucible of pioneering new wave band The Talking Heads before ultimately stepping out solo, there’s simply nothing like him on Earth. (Except maybe Byrne’s good buddy Laurie Anderson.)

Even aside from his anxious, satirical and genre/world-hopping songs that tickle and challenge in equal measure, his restless output and ceaseless curiosity bleeds into other works of media. Sure, we all widely accept that Jonathan Demme’s “Stop Making Sense”is the greatest concert film of all time, but consider “Here Lies Love,” his and Fatboy Slim’s disco-powered immersive musical about Imelda Marcos, or his 1986 film “True Stories,” which is kind of the damnedest thing.

And then there’sthe wild success of “American Utopia,” the album tour that became a Broadway sensation…and gave us all the lovely ability to see a concert matinee at 2 p.m. on a Wednesday. Not to mention that one time 20 years ago when he did a lecture called “I Heart PowerPoint,” which was, no joke, pretty much just him talking about why he loved PowerPoint so much.

His latest, “Who Is the Sky,” is another example of cautious sonic optimism. Collaborating with producer Kid Harpoon and the Ghost Train Orchestra, the album itself is bubbly yet vicious. But listening to Byrne is only half the experience, and nobody puts on a show like him, so get your butts down to the Paramount Theatre from Nov. 11-13, where you can see a genius at work. Or is he just a little rascal laughing at chaos? What’s the difference?