Definition of Music?
 

What do you define as music?

For me, music really is impossible to make a concrete definition or rule of what makes things music. To me, its all up to the individual. If you think its music, then its music.

Scientific:

sounds that are deliberately used in a regular pattern.

Sounds arranged in a time scale

I learned in music theory that music is by definition, sound and silence.

Elaborate upon that...

Thats it.
Those were my words too.

Ok... i dont follow that if i'm honest

So is stand up comedy but I don't think that makes George Carlin a musician.

self-expression by tone... i think that covers everything :p: *waits to be told he's wrong*

are 'music' and 'art' interchangeable though? You've got say 10 minutes of 'performed' silence by John Cage, you couldn't call that music but it's definitely an art exhibition

^Wikipedia says that music is an art form whose medium is sound organized in time.

Makes more sense to me than sound and silence .. By the sound and silence definition, it sounds to me that music would be something that follows you every day that you can't escape, even if you lock yourself in a tomb or live a secluded life on the highest mountain top. Sounds nice and deep, but I don't get it.

i consider music to be an immediate expression of the self through sound as controlled by the individual.

anything else is a song (or some other similar term)

it's like the difference between making love and ****ing.

^But then a robot couldn't play music (unless you consider it an individual) .. it could only mimic it. :D

Take for example a program that generates melodies. That could not be music?

Good point. Also, foley work on a film's audio track could also be described as "an immediate expression of the self through sound as controlled by the individual" but I don't think anyone would call it music.

robots and computer generated melodies left on their own are mimics to me. since they're originally programmed by individuals. :p:


as for the foley action. if amon tobin's latest was an example of what that would sound like i'm totally cool with it :laughing:

Ha-ha. Great album, but you know what I'm talking about. The sound effects of footsteps and doors closing in the average movie are hardly something that would be considered music.

^Aussie, those spam posts will get deleted and you will get banned for posting them. If anything, they will make less people go to your website because everyone here hates that kind of advertisement. So for our sake and your own, just don't.

yeah true, but i thought this was about personal definitions of music hehe i'm still sticking with mine. when i play 'music' it's what i'm doing hehe.

music is very much a live / living thing for me, it only really exists in its moment. otherwise all you've got are memories or mimicries. not necessarily bad but not necessarily the same.

or at least that's how the dots connect in my head (or how the stars line up in my sky hahaha)

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM

That's what music means to me.

thats the guns of war ringing in your ears

It's something that keeps me from giving up on life...

That's why it's deep; only he gets it.

I don't really care what it is or how would you define it.

It's what it does that's important.

Now that's deep.

That's what she said?

That's even deeper, and she said that too.

Yeah, this is what music's all about.

raptorjesus would have a massive schlong for sure

R.Stevie Moore is the definition of music, true speak. If you know him you know what i mean

RJ's dick runs deep, so deep
So deep, put that ass to sleep.

The scientific form is so robotic and gives no emotion to music.

Exactly. If it doesn't clean my bathroom or fold the laundry, it just isn't music.

sounds that make yur mood good or bad

...how do you define music for deaf people?

Vibrations maybe.

Vibration used as a form of expression. Maybe. (Include maybe in the definition).

^So if I hit my thumb with a hammer and shout "****!", that's music to your ears? ;)

Surely the intent is all that matters. I'm sure we can all agree that sound is a given. If I create sound with the intent of it being music, then music it is, regardless of how musical it may be. Similarly, if I speak with the intent of being comical, then comedy it is, regardless of how funny it may be.

Dave

he was talking about deaf people hearing vibrations in place of music.

I've heard some "music" with noises like that. I think its called workbenchcore.

I think this is my favorite definition so far.

Co-signed.

its patterns i think