Bernard Chasan wrote:

>Definitions are of the most limited value when the object of the
>enterprise is to probe deeply.  This one seems arbitrary and not
>particularly convincing, but I am not sure that it is any more or less
>convincing than any other, with the exception of Dave Lampson's more
>or less anything goes definition.  What can your definition exclude? I
>just finished a Concerto for stamped foot and finger-nail scraped along
>blackboard.  It certainly is a sound effect and it certainly evokes rather
>strong feelings.

I would find it difficult to image that coming from an articulate
individual such as yourself, it would be devoid of intelligence in its
creation...of course that would not be necessary to qualify it as music
for me....I would have to hear it first...by the way, did you record it?

Karl