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Let's buy all music ever!
bbqrocks:
I used to have like 40 days, but it all got wiped, so when I started building it back up again I swore to listen to every song at least once.
Doug S. Machina:
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--- Quote from: Misconception on 23 Feb 2008, 14:36 ---If we are really talking about "all music ever" that would include the music that is being made right at this very second, the music that has already been made, and the music that has yet to be recorded. So you could never actually listen to all music ever because there is an infinite amount of it, and someday you will die and miss out on everything that is to come after you.
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unless of course the universe explodes, and magically you and all music that came before and finished recording was propelled out of it and survived, and then you listen to all the music ever, and then you die, and leave no music behind unheard. Then... then you will have heard all music ever. You would have to die, because then at any one point you would still possibly create more music, and thus not have heard all music ever. This of course raises the question... if music is being played, and there's no one around to hear it, is it still music? (that's actually a lot deeper sounding than it was meant to be).
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Perhaps that without a mind to interpret it, it's just sound, like words in a book are just marks on paper unless someone is reading them.
Actually, that's a bit simplistic. I suppose written words are information in potentia*. So music is carrying its tune, waiting for someone to hear.
(*I wonder if I'm using that correctly?)
bbqrocks:
I don't see why music can't be music if no one hears it. music is defined as 'an art form consisting of sound and silence. Elements of music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, structure, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture.', not 'an art form consisting of sound and silence. Elements of music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, structure, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. BUT ONLY IF PEOPLE CAN HEAR IT'.
Doug S. Machina:
I wasn't saying that a statue crumbles when no-one looks at it. (Also, I was wondering, not asserting.) The musical structure is still there, just as the words in book remain the same when it's closed. But do you need a receptive mind to recognise it as music?
bbqrocks:
Not in my opinion, no. But how about 'if no one can hear the music, does it make a sound?' If no one is there to hear it it's just vibrations, and if it's just vibrations (not sound) then it's not 'an artform involving sound and silence', therefore it is not music. Which would, of course, answer 'if music is being played, and there's no one around to hear it, is it still music?'.
I think. :|
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