I think music is globaly a raisonnance "buisness".<br><br>Not something material, like an instrument itself <br>even if it is also a physical phenomena , because we can hear it<br>through the air.<br>And it is also a communication system where several poeple can be<br>
involved in.<br>You can remember a music like a physical object and transform it later, <br>you can also play something with the same main global idea at the background, <br>(what you want to communicate), in a sightly different ways , like it is never <br>
played the same way at each time you play it ,while keeping<br>essentially the same idea and building rules considering<br>those rules are really containing the message you want to send<br>on the network of poeple involved in this action.<br>
(that includes musicians and listeners)<br><br>Following some rules it can touch your soul.<br><br>mmm does it make any sens? :) , I was just thinking about the<br>enormous north indian music system of ragas , that partially defines music<br>
in that kind of way.(folowing what I actually understand of this)<br><br>And I am thinking often that perhaps it would be possible to make some interesting patches <br>relative to that, without having an exact clear idea myself about what I would really<br>
like to get yet.<br>(PS: I didn't want to annoy any one with my 18:50 PM tough , at least it<br>was not my goal :)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:17 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 Wed, 2 Feb 2011, J. Simon van der Walt wrote:<br>
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‘There is no such thing as music. Music is not a thing at all but an<br>
activity, something that people do.’<br>
Christopher Small (1998) ‘Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening’<br>
</blockquote>
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An activity is a kind of thing.<br>
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It's an ontological issue.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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