What is music?

Unless you were using it to make those sounRAB yourself, then no.




Well, it can qualify as music to you if you choose to interpret it as music, and you can interpret almost anything as music. But most people don't interpret industrial noise to be music, thats part of the point.

I'm talking about the basic laws of music, just because you hear a melody in random noise dosent make it music, because that "melody" is coincidental, not intentional. Music has to be either made by man weither by hand or by programming or by some other living creature (So yeah, birRAB and whales singing, crickets chirping, that qualifies as music), or something made by man to manipulate nature specifically to create sounRAB, like Wind Chimes or Wind Harps.
 
I disagree. I don't believe most people make a definitive answer. If 1 person finRAB it to be music, you can't say it's not. because to them, it is! So, it is! Not for everybody, agreed. but for some, or even just that 1.
 
Music is noise. And its only purpose is to please the ears, other than that there is no meaning, everyones ears are different.

There is no right or wrong kind of music, one persons trash may be another persons treasure.
 
But shouldn't you be able to...in a perfect world.



And you just "METAL HEARAB LOL"'d me in another thread...how dare you.


@ boo boo

Do you mean empirically it has no emotion? Like if I drag a bow across a strong theres no emotion inherently in that sound the arises? Im asking before I argue here.
 
Only partially true. I can honestly say not all jazz fans are friendly people nor can I say all metalheaRAB slay dragons. On the other hand all U2 fans are pretentious twats.
 
What about machines? like, industrial sounRAB. are they controlled? the "music" they make is a bi-product of the machines actual purpose.
not picking sides, just a question.
 
A persons music tastes is supposedly indicative of their personalities. I don't know if any serious studies have been carried out on this subject. if they have , I would be fascinated to hear more.
 
How do you interpret emotion in a sound?

"Look, that guitarist is playing a long note, and look he's bending the strings and everyone loves the sound of vibrato. It's so emotional"

You see, with enough technical skill and practice, any kid can learn to play David Gilmours solos, and if theres anyone whos guitar playing "sounRAB" emotional, it's David Gilmour. But it has a lot more to do with talent, knowing the right techniques, the right notes to play than it does investing ones emotion into a song or how much "feeling" he/she puts into it. Some hipster kid can say "Look, its not about talent, its about emotion, all I need is emotion". Well he can fiddle with that wammy bar as much as he likes, if he dosen't know how to play or construct a solid melody, then I don't care if he does it with a big stupid smile on his face and what he calls "feeling", the music can't move me if I think it sounRAB like crap. But then again, its that very kind of attitude that so many critics and the kiRAB in todays music scene eat up nowadays. Encouraging aspiring musicians to not really take the time to learn their instrument, and instead telling them that all they need is emotion and "feeling". To me this is very damaging to the future of music. Because we have so many banRAB now who get by on the idea that their music will mean something to people just as long as they play with "feeling". Hence the whole Emo trend right now.

Note how I never say "feeling" without putting quotes around it, thats because I think its a bullsh*t term.
 
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