ATTN: LMNO PEE: I IZ TOO STOOPID TO "GET" AUTECHRE

[navkat]

Nav, if you got the same kind of response from the Neubauten track as you did from the Autechre track, but not with the Eno track, I might suggest that you have a bad reaction to arhythmic high pitched distortion.  All that buzzing, piercing noise, not being tied down with a recognizable beat, or any kind of repeating figure might be what you object to.

If you want to use SCIENCE, you could try lifting the last minute of the Autechre track, and laying it over a dub beat to see what happens.  If you find it more tolerable, then you've found your main sticking point.

So what makes it music, then?

It's a series of intended noises created by the composer.  No troll, that's how I have come to define music.

THIS!

Okay, I can dig that definition.

As far as the Neubauten track is concerned, I'll have to give it more attention when I get home. I'm still in New Orleans ATM and have been using either my Android or my lappy on the Bienville House WiFi...which is DNS jacked and slow as fuckall.

[Triple Zero]

So what makes it music, then?

It's a series of intended noises created by the composer.  No troll, that's how I have come to define music.

THIS!

Sounds good to me. Quite broad, but it has to be.



Also, you just know there'll be some musician that's going to record accidental "Found Music" to subvert the "intended" part of that definition, right?

It's clockwork, like a rule 34 for art.

[LMNO]

Cage did that already with 4'33".

But I consider that to be more of a proof of concept, or a bit of philosophy, than a song.