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Originally Posted by Rexx Shredd
Not that I want to add to this profound rhetorical ambiguous discussion but I think the difference between what is music and what is not should be intent:
Shouldn't "music" be classified as man-made to differentiate itself? This means that a even if a person goes around with his digital audio-sampler of choice and samples found sounds, then throws them together and - although it may sound like cocaophony - it was purposefully put together, therefore music........conversely, I could walk through the woods and hear the coincidental sounds of several unrelated things that may form a "musical" melody based on the Western twelve-step form of music and - although "musical" to my ears because I am used to the Western paradigm of what constitutes it - it is still a natural anomaly with no purposeful intent and, therefore, not music
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Well I don't know about that because the sounds of nature and whatnot would be disregarded as nothing as opposed to the same thing but recorded, I would say it's music either was as the process of recording wouldn't change the way the sound waves are or the way they sound.
(Oh and can I have a bit if input here, 4'33" is not something that I'm going to be listening to a lot like other silent compositions, I don't have to like it at all, but the thing is I accept and appriciciate it for the musical qualities it has. The same thing with art my friend really hates contemporary art because he says it looks like nothing, my response is always well it might not look like great artists of the past, but that's okay, and I don't have to like that kind of art to be able to appriciciate it and see it as what it is, art.)