Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
On 4/5/07, Ismael Valladolid Torres <ivalladt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Marcos Guglielmetti escribe:
> 60 minutes CD with only and just only pure white noise, you will be
still
> thinking this is music?
It depends on your capacity of sounding in a musical way using just
white noise. Schoenberg resulted amazingly musical using no
harmony. Or what about John Cage using a detuned piano, or Ligeti
using a hundred metronomes.
Schoenberg used lots of harmony. He wrote a textbook on harmony. His
atonal systems even had some highly-developed ways of using harmony.
I think I'll write a piece for a hundred and one metronomes. It won't
sound anything like the Ligeti piece. This is a genre that really
needs to be developed.
I too laugh at the idea of someone buying a 60 minute CD of pure white
noise. The novelty is cute, but how do you know the composer whose
name is on the album really composed that white noise? Maybe he
plagiarized someone else's 60 minutes of white noise.
Even if the composer composed 60 minutes of white noise, all he or she
is doing is recording a sound, a natural phenomenon. If nothing else is
done to it, it's a simple recording, not music. If something IS done to
it - filter applied, etc, etc, then it is no longer purely natural and
could be perhaps considered music.
Or so it seems to me.
--
David
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