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.
quoted 19 lines On Fri, 7 Apr 1995, Robert Smith wrote:> 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.