I think it was Miles Davis who said music was like food, eat the stuff you like, leave the stuff you don't.
But in direct response to what you wrote, I believe there are some people who are more interested in the ideas behind the music, than the actual sounds produced; the sounds produced are almost a souvenir of the idea. It's not my approach, but who am I to say others should not look at things that way? Dom On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Mathieu Bouchard <ma...@artengine.ca>wrote: > 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 ? > > _______________________________________________________________________ > | Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- Villeray, Montréal, QC > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > >
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