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Old 12-29-2014, 10:13 AM   #511 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by MasterBaggins View Post
Music is a sonic medium that sends a message. I wouldn't consider a speech music, or a poem music, but if it's noise that is created to be intended to be music, then it's music. If you drop a pan and ended up recording it, and then decide to sell it as music, it's not music. If you're dropping pans with the purpose of getting a message across, then it's music.
How can you tell the difference behind the intent? And if you've decided to sell it as music, isn't that a message in and of itself?

I must say though, that having a super liberal definition of music could easily lead me to tell the emperor how great his new clothes are.
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