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David Stewart:
>What you have to ask yourself is 'What is the most useful definition
>of the word music?'. I do not believe that defining music to be able
>to mean (non-metaphorically) a car revving up is useful.
Depends on how the sound is used. Normally, a car revving up isn't
particularly interesting, but the context of art isn't a normal context.
To put it another way, French taxi horns aren't normally interesting. In
American in Paris, they are an unalloyed delight and very definitely music,
according to me.
>Its not about subjectivity and I respect your opinions etc. etc., its
>about communication. 'organised' sounds can be random and still music,
>but natural sounds can't. They are by definition, non-musical sounds.
And if organized sounds include natural sounds, what then?
Steve Schwartz
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