Jocelyn Wang <[log in to unmask]> writes for many of us in her replies
to Satoshi Akima <[log in to unmask]>.  "Atonal" noise is generally
incompatible with the deep-seated notions of chromaticism, lyricism,
tonal center, pleasantly harmonic, and the like, that draw most people
to "music." Atonal sounds are frequently not the beautiful effects of
the collection of sounds, but the precision of arranging notes in some
theoretical paradigm at odds with most people's notion of "song." It may
be intellectually interesting, but hardly musically arresting.

Stephen Heersink
San Francisco
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