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Re:Organ Grinding: When the Audience Revolted at Carnegie Hall by jedimastert on Monday April 02, 2018 @10:16AM (#16734631)
> I do think to call something music, the bar is higher than ‘sound made intentionally’

That's exactly the kind of questions and feeling people like Steve Reich and John Cage were trying to explore with their music.

What would you say the bar is?

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Re:Organ Grinding: When the Audience Revolted at Carnegie Hall by zaroth on Monday April 02, 2018 @01:12PM (#16736603)
I don’t know enough about them but, if you’re right about that, then I’d say it’s the best support for my comment possible.

If they are intentionally exploring the line between noise and music, then clearly there is one, and it is up to each of us to decide where to draw it.

I would say, from the 60 odd seconds of track I listened to, they are asymptotically approaching noise from the musical side of the equation. Which is probably why the audience had such a negative reaction.

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