I think it was Miles Davis who said music was like food, eat the stuff you like, leave the stuff you don't. <br><br>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? <br>
<br>Dom<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Mathieu Bouchard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matju@artengine.ca">matju@artengine.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, ailo wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
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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 ?<br>
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(btw obviously I'm not talking about pd-list !)<div class="im"><br>
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Can we even define what music is?<br>
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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.<div class="im"><br>
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I think it's ok to have a personal moral view of what music should or<br>
should not be. For me, when you have a sense of what is right and wrong<br>
in music, that is a sort of morality.<br>
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That's usually called beauty, ugliness and æsthetics, though otoh lyrics could be subjected to the same judgements of morality as books do.<div class="im"><br>
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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?<br>
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What do you mean by rational ?<br>
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