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Originally Posted by Mighty Salami
I'm going to have to disagree with you there, sweetheart. When I sit down to play some Scott Joplin on the piano or work out some finger picking on the guitar, I'm not remotely interested in whether anyone's heard me or not. I do it because it sounds pleasing to me, and I enjoy it for the sake of that. You can tell me that it's merely releasing endorphins as a natural response from my endocrine system, but I think that if if it were something intrinsic to communication and me assuming it's connection with emotion is purely me having been "conditioned", then somehow I would feel that what I'm doing is more of a message than an "acceleration of celestial experience".
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Communication has more than one form, if Someone writes something down in their diary it's not for the amusement of the reader. If you play a Scott Joplin piece he's communicating to you, it's not a requirement that you pass it on to someone else.
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Originally Posted by Pedestrian
I agree with Rubato, actually, because his/her post supports music as a spandrel of language.
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