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Old 12-26-2014, 02:59 AM   #471 (permalink)
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What are noises, what is music?
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Old 12-26-2014, 03:01 AM   #472 (permalink)
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What are noises, what is music?
Let us have a forty-eight page two month long argument about it shall we?
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Old 12-26-2014, 03:01 AM   #473 (permalink)
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whatever. I like listening to cool things.
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Old 12-26-2014, 03:03 AM   #474 (permalink)
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What is an argument, what is a debate...

No, I kid, although I clearly get a kick out of debating with opponents, seeing them driven before me and hearing the lamentation of ......

Wait what?
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Old 12-26-2014, 03:03 AM   #475 (permalink)
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I've come to the conclusion that I do not care about what is and isn't music. All I care about is pleasing my ears and mind with sound waves.
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Old 12-26-2014, 03:12 AM   #476 (permalink)
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I guess to me, not allowing things to be included into being "music" means music isn't necessarily the best form of aural pleasure. which is a weird phenomenon imo. why not just make it all one? no lets separate it because because because

because its not musical!!

oh right. whatever.
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Old 12-26-2014, 03:18 AM   #477 (permalink)
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Just look up the word in a dictionary.
Just sayin'.

'music'

6.
any sweet, pleasing, or harmonious sounds or sound:
the music of the waves.
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Old 12-26-2014, 04:27 AM   #478 (permalink)
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Okay, I'm back. Anyway, this is an interesting discussion but ultimately just a matter of opinion. My opinion is to think that found sounds and silence alone are not music unless part of a larger musical structure -- something with musical notes in it that can be put in a score. Others think differently. That's cool. All's good.
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Old 12-26-2014, 09:44 AM   #479 (permalink)
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After reading this thread, and researching it a bit, I've come to the conclusion that 4'33' is music. Not my type of music, but music nonetheless. I guess I was looking too closely to the word "silence", and taking it as I saw it. To be fair though, was 4'33' even silence? There was a bunch of different noises from the audience, like coughing and moving about. It's not something I would enjoy listening to, but sure, I'll call it music.
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Old 12-26-2014, 10:18 AM   #480 (permalink)
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Anyway, this is an interesting discussion but ultimately just a matter of opinion.
Yup.

Some are of the opinion that 4'33 is music.

Some are of the opinion that 4'33 is not music.

Cage accomplished his goal I think.

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