Originally posted by Nemesio I'll tell you why he won't share, Epiphinehas: it's because there is nothing to share. It's the
Emperor's New Clothes. A blue square on a field of chartreuse, it's brilliant can't you see? If you
can't see, you're an uncultured, denigrating sot (and a communist and atheist, too). Do you
see the brilliance now?
Originally posted by Nemesio If it is false, then it would be a simple matter for you to demonstrate it. It would require climbing
out of your ivory tower, of course.
Originally posted by ThinkOfOne You can expand the definition of music to be "organized sound".
Most music is "about the creation and release of tension". However, you might want to consider that there are many aspects of sound that can be used in building tension: form, melody, harmony, dissonance, rhythm, dynamics, timbre, texture, etc. There are examples of music that are primar ...[text shortened]... ing "intelligible" is ignorance. This is also true of "experimental" musics.
Originally posted by ThinkOfOne This speaks volumes.
maybe nemesio likes hiding behing the sterile and impotent rhetoric that denies to the core what human intelligence is and what artistic expression and music really is.
Originally posted by eldragonfly maybe nemesio likes hiding behing the sterile and impotent rhetoric that denies to the core what human intelligence is and what artistic expression and music really is.