On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, ailo wrote:
There's so many cases where these questions can never be generalized, so
I find it's pretty much impossible to discuss music in a general
fashion.
Ok, let's say I follow all the links posted on a mailing-list, and all I
find are tracks in which I want to fast-forward through the seemingly
randomly-arranged noises until I get to the beginning of the «real stuff»,
and eventually I can't fast-forward anymore because I'm already at the
end. What do you call this ? When is one allowed to generalise ?
(btw obviously I'm not talking about pd-list !)
Can we even define what music is?
Depends on the level on which you expect to define it. You'd have more
chances if you try to define it on a sociological/psychological level.
I think it's ok to have a personal moral view of what music should or
should not be. For me, when you have a sense of what is right and wrong
in music, that is a sort of morality.
That's usually called beauty, ugliness and æsthetics, though otoh lyrics
could be subjected to the same judgements of morality as books do.
In my experience, basing your music on rational moralic standpoints can
be restrictive to the point that you are choked. Maybe for someone else,
that is a way to get organized?
What do you mean by rational ?
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