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Old 12-26-2014, 01:12 AM   #11 (permalink)
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The point of the piece is that we should understand that there really is a lot going on within a supposed silence. Since we will never be outside of that experience, we will never know silence. This gives the piece noise in some sense because there will be a listener who inherently makes noise with their bodily functions.
Cool. It's that, then, but not music.

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Many compositions are just field recordings, and I didn't specify but lowercase is electronically manipulated field recordings.
Then they aren't music, unless they're then put together as music.

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Natural sounds of nature such as rain, bird song, wind chimes, leaves rustling, rivers flowing and all that stuff is some of the most beautiful stuff I've heard.
Other than bird song, that's not music, no matter how beautiful it is. It can be incorporated into a larger body of music, but it doesn't stand as music on its own.
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