At 11:57 AM 10/9/2000 -0700, Matthew Korfhage wrote:
quoted 7 lines OK. I'd been staying out of this, mostly because I try to steer clear of>OK. I'd been staying out of this, mostly because I try to steer clear of
>anyone offering up criteria for what constitutes "REAL music", unless that
>criteria is simply the fact that it is being offered up as such. As far as
>I'm concerned, the jackhammer outside your window mixed with the din of
>traffic, the low hum and whine of your refrigerator, and the insipid
>dialogue on your neighbor's television can be music, if it is heard as
>interesting and appreciated within a musical context.
i'd like to differ from this, stating that essentially random noises heard
in a musical context do not constitute music; rather, they constitute
noise. depending on personal preference, such noise can be appreciated or
hated, but it's still noise.
music has to have a purpose. whether it's a carefully calibrated
orchestration, or people playing live, a purpose is present. now, if you
record the noise occuring from random sources, then that could arguably be
music, but that's YOU having the *purpose*. i'm not stating purpose as in
"i set out to do this", but purpose meaning that someone has to do
something to make it music, even if it's just making a recording. even if
you get 5 random people on stage "playing" different instruments randomly,
if they just happen to be up there, it's noise. if they're up there for
the purpose of making random sounds, then it's music.
:)
cheers,
/derek
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