Dave Lampson wrote: >Music is anything someone listens to as music. > >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