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Date: | Wed, 29 Sep 1999 08:23:55 -0500 |
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Dave Lampson wrote:
>Music is anything someone listens to as music.
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>This isn't very satisfying emotionally, but it does work. For instance,
>take a random, disorganized collection of sounds, like ten washers on
>spin cycle in the local laundromat (sort of a naturally occurring version
>of Steve Reich's "Drumming", if you will). If you don't listen to it as
>music, then it's just noise, but if you listen carefully you can detect
>the rhythmic interaction of these ten machines, and I would say that it can
>be considered music if it is listened to as such.
To put it in a negative way, it isn't music UNTIL someone listens to it as
such, which is a bit too close to the "if a tree falls in the forest and
there is no one to witness it, is there a sound?" argument.
Chris Bonds
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