But what *is* the difference between sound and music? Maybe the difference is just your interpretation of it. Somebody mentioned Autechre a while ago, I'll use that as one example. Anybody ever hear the Gantz_Graf track they did? I think that's music, but I'd never in a million year be able to convince my parents that it was. (have a listen to it, it's pretty much all timestretched drills and delay effects)
Now take some whale noises recorded by a mic in the sea, does that sound musical to us? I bet to the whales it just sounds like whale talk. Could this be with same with bird "song"? I remember reading an interview with My Bloody Valentine's front man Kevin Sheilds many years ago (before he become a complete recluse) where he said that he kept hearing music around London, in the subways, on the streets, trains passing him in certain ways sounded musical. This was before I'd ever heard of musique concrete or John Cage or any eletronic music and I was thinking "What the hell is he on about!? Music without playing a guitar or a keyboard? That's nuts!" I'd be of the opinion that a persons interpretation of the sound is what makes it music, to them. I think "the rules" of what is music (if there were any) keep expanding as we become more open minded to different sounds and start listening to them in different ways. Like my Grandmother always said about The Beatles "That's not music, it's just noise!" -skkatter On 04/11/05, Thomas D. Cox, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > youve got to be kidding me, right? i mean this is not the first time ive > ever heard this argument, but the idea that any sound is music is > ridiculous. there is unquestionably a difference between sound and music. -- http://www.skkatter.net
