I should have included one more quote: "If this word 'music' is sacred and reserved for eighteenth- and ninteteenth-century instruments, we can subsitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound." -- John Cage, _Silence_, p. 3 So I think John Cage would agree with your definition, and he probably wouldn't have minded the word "noise" so much either. Charles "Joseph Garrett" <joegarrett@earthlink.net> wrote: > Charles, > You called this sort of thing "Music", (twice). IMO it's noise. The > definition of music is ORGANIZED sound. This, (again IMHO), is not > organized, but simply random sound in an organized framework. IMO, best left > to the RAPADAPPA group. <G> > Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon)
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