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Originally Posted by mordwyr
Not at all. I'm not putting music in a box. I'm respecting music by treating music as music and non-music as non-music. This is analogous to putting clothes on a kitten. By doing so, the owner is treating the kitten like a child instead of an animal, thus disrespecting the kitten-ness of the kitten. That owner may think he loves and understands kittens more than others, but actually he loves and understands his kitten less than someone who treats his kitten with the respect and love due an animal.
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I'm of the opinion that art has boundaries that are less defining than food or life forms. If I tried to feed you arsenic and told you it was food you would say "**** you cocksucker, that isn't food you're trying to kill me!" And you'd be right. But then I try to show you a field recording and you would say "**** you cocksucker, that isn't music you're trying to kill me!" And then we'd have a philosophical discussion after I called you a little bitch for thinking I was trying to kill you with music.