On Thu 17 Mar 2011, 18:08 Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Unfortunately, "lower barrier of entry" almost always means "more crap to > sift through". The more crap -- the lower criteria barrier for "what is `crap'?". The more crap will become "normal" and even "good thing".
And at some point in the future we all will agree that "is it quite good music; why? not `crap', it's great!". And we will be unable to distinguish "as great as classical" (in modern sense of "classical") from "as ugly as <crap>" (i don't know what i mean "crap", let's say). Well... This is my english... Stanisław Lem in his "Summa Technologiae" says (i hope i am not too much wrong) that the information *is* the information if and only if here is somebody who can recognize it as such, can accept and understand. Let's say, i *love* J. S. Bach very much (well, let's say), as much as my father and grandfather (etc). So, can i really be sure that i understand his music as good as my grandfather?.. I mean that every Beethoven's symphony contains "a piece of information" -- can i be sure that i can recognize it as good as my grandfather? Yes, i know this can not be measured at all. Anyway. I mean that at some point in the future people will like our classical music as much as their modern, no problem, they will! -- but "the level of understanding" will be lower. Because of because of "more crap"; because of "lower barrier of entry". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-B4sjUve3E Isn't it "rather computer-generated"? Regardless of emotions on the face?.. (My friend sent this link as a "great performance example" or like that.) Sorry, i may be wrong, easily. Oh well... 42. Yes, i know the answer; i don't know what's the question .) -- Dmytro O. Redchuk Bug Squad _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user