Re:Organ Grinding: When the Audience Revolted at Carnegie Hall
by clappski on Monday April 02, 2018 @01:00PM
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Is Cage's 4'33" unmusic? Are the birds, tweeting birds songs, unmusic? I think you're confusing only musical styles that you recognize as music for the whole world of music we are surrounded by.
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Re:Organ Grinding: When the Audience Revolted at Carnegie Hall
by zaroth on Monday April 02, 2018 @08:22PM
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The birds are musical, and may be music to your ears (as in metaphorical music) but whether birdsong is literal music seems to be up for debate [1] unless a human records and samples it into such.
Cage is performance art certainly but not, IMO, music. Again it’s something certainly up for debate. [2] But such debate reminds me of a particular South Park episode based in SF.
[1] - http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=...