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What is Music?

Alstroph	Date: October 29, 2005 @ 4:58 PM A tricky subject. In my personal belief I think that music is whatever one labels music. If I record myself knocking on a piece of wood while screaming "The Lord Cometh!" over and over and call that music, then it is music. Now this does not mean it would be good music, but it would be music. What do others think? ~Alstroph
AgentMGD	Date: October 29, 2005 @ 5:34 PM listening to my 3yr old making up songs and singing them to herself or watching bang the pots and pans with wooden spoons - future dm drummer here.
celtaidd	Date: October 29, 2005 @ 8:11 PM Depends on your age.After you reach 30ish anything new is crap and then you tend to say "This stuff isnt as good as when I was your age" (unless its your children or grandchildren thats playing it!
KyleEpps	Date: October 29, 2005 @ 8:54 PM a difficult question...i consider "good" music to be something that can make u "feel" the music but that's not the question...i believe music to be something that has soul in it though..tha'ts what real music is
Dodecafono	Date: October 31, 2005 @ 3:05 AM Music is the organization of sounds into the silence in the same way painting is the organization of colors, shapes, textures... on canvas. In music (or in anything involved with comunications) we need 3 basic elements: an emitter, a medium and a receiver. In music the emitter or creator can be a composer or player who builds a structure (determinist or stochastic) and the receiver decodes that structure giving his own interpretation of the creation. An important point is when there are no individualized emitter. A receiver can interpret all the information around as music. In fact, music is everything we want to hear and put it internally in a context, conscientiously or unconscientiously. ie, I went to a party last night and danced all the time 'cause the music was so good (unconscientious case) and You are in the middle of a traffic jam listen to the car horns, people screaming, works in the road... and feel that like a fine piece of music. (conscientious case). Obviously this is not an absolute theory but explains in a few words the influence of all the media around us.
Alstroph	Date: November 2, 2005 @ 4:45 PM Music isn't necessarily the organization of sound. One can record silence and call it music. But John Cage has already done it...a guy with a trumpet in a room for four minutes...so i guess you could do a cover of the song using a guitar...but it wouldn't sound much different. The Minister
imemine	Date: November 2, 2005 @ 4:49 PM It's called 4:33 and it's a piano. Egac did cover it! http://egac.dmusic.com/
Alstroph	Date: November 2, 2005 @ 5:31 PM HAHA! i'm listening to it right now!...er...or not listening to it.
hantu	Date: November 2, 2005 @ 5:55 PM anything is music really... like a doorbell... or someone scratching their ars... or taking a piss... its all music really... might not be good groovin music... but its music i guess
hantu	Date: November 2, 2005 @ 5:55 PM sound
GeneHilbert	Date: November 2, 2005 @ 5:59 PM Yogi Berra Explains Jazz!! Interviewer: "What do expect is in store for the future of jazz guitar?" Yogi: "I'm thinkin' there'll be a group of guys who've never met talkin' about it all the time.." Interviewer: Can you explain jazz? Yogi: I can't, but I will. 90% of all jazz is half improvisation. The other half is the part people play while others are playing something they never played with anyone who played that part. So if you play the wrong part, its right. If you play the right part, it might be right if you play it wrong enough. But if you play it too right, it's wrong. Interviewer: I don't understand. Yogi: Anyone who understands jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it. Interviewer: Do you understand it? Yogi: No. That's why I can explain it. If I understood it, I wouldn't know anything about it. Interviewer: Are there any great jazz players alive today? Yogi: No. All the great jazz players alive today are dead. Except for the ones that are still alive. But so many of them are dead, that the ones that are still alive are dying to be like the ones that are dead. Some would kill for it. Interviewer: What is syncopation? Yogi: That's when the note that you should hear now happens either before or after you hear it. In jazz, you don't hear notes when they happen because that would be some other type of music. Other types of music can be jazz, but only if they're the same as something different from those other kinds. Interviewer: Now I really don't understand. Yogi: I haven't taught you enough for you to not understand jazz that well.
PrincessTast...	Date: November 3, 2005 @ 7:32 PM the ever-quotable Frank Zappa: "Music can be anything... a bird... a sock... a hamburger." I think that's the quote, please correct me if I got it wrong
Izekial	Date: November 4, 2005 @ 5:41 AM Music is taking something that's already there and manipulating it, controlling sound waves through instruments or prerecorded sounds, which are made from experimentation and invention. It's a focused tinkering of one of our many realities. Put simply, it's any kind of audio stimuli, like a picture or a vision would be a visual stimuli. That's how I figure it, anyway.
zedsalt	Date: November 4, 2005 @ 11:01 AM the inimitable Mr. Zappa would know If I recall correctly, one of his first bits of major exposure...if not THE first...was playing a bicycle as a musical instrument on The Steve Allen Show.
PrincessTast...	Date: November 7, 2005 @ 9:13 PM Yet another reason he just might be the coolest musician in the known universe.
egac	Date: September 1, 2007 @ 9:43 AM music is or not
Mahjix	Date: September 7, 2007 @ 5:24 AM I guess everyone has their own interpretations on "what music really is". Kinda like art. There is a fine line between noise/sound and music. I believe that music has a certain criteria for these noises/sounds to be considered music. My criteria; rythm, repitition, and harmony. Just my two cents.
Mahjix	Date: September 7, 2007 @ 5:30 AM rhythm* repetition* I'm going to sleep.
doomnight	Date: September 17, 2007 @ 2:00 AM To me, music is anything with a constant beat [even though there can be silent bits in a song, behind it all there was still a metronome whilst recording], and/or a melodic piece.