Dear Mark,
No, music is not reserved for only certain kinds of art whose
medium is sound. It could be classified as noise ifd you want it to but
music should please each person as do foods to picky eaters. Good music
is whatever people want it to be...
On Sat, 8 Apr 1995, Mark Kolmar wrote:
quoted 33 lines So what is music? Look in the dictionary and you will find the differences> So what is music? Look in the dictionary and you will find the differences
> between "music", "sound" and "noise" have mostly to do with subjective
> judgements. Is the word "music" reserved for only certain kinds of art
> whose medium is sound? Is there another sound art?
>
> If you cannot classify techo, et al, as "music", you need to move your
> goalposts.
>
> If you are dancing at a rave, or standing in the middle of the forest, or
> in the middle of the busiest intersection of a large city, and you cannot
> hear music around you--well, the sounds don't need to change, only your
> perception of them.
>
> > On Fri, 7 Apr 1995, Robert Smith wrote:
> >
> > > BEGIN QUOTE FROM Troy Sheets:
> > > :
> > > : "Stamping out techno's droning beat"
> > > :
> > > : -reprinted without permission from the Friday, April
> > > : 7th addition of USC's Daily Trojan's Viewpoint
> > > : Section.
> > > :
> > > : I have yet to see why a bunch of computer-
> > > : generated sounds clumped together with a driving
> > > : rhythm are categorized as music, and am glad to see
> > > : that music is finally going back to what I classify as
> > > : "real" music.
> > >
> > > Obviously, this writer has been exposed to a very limited
> > > amount of "techno". I would agree with her if I had never
> > > heard of Mad Mike or Derrick May or... too many to list.
>