The Secret of Music

[robsound]

Music is a spiritual entity, which enters positively in people harmonic affinities, sensitive to the phenomenon by means of sound waves that captures the soul, materialized in the receiving body, vibrations, feel. - Author: Robson dos Santos brazilian contemporary classic music, stories and poems, writer.
https://www.myspace.com/braziliancontemporaryclassicmusic

[ramseytheii]

"Music can be made anywhere, is invisible, and does not smell."

- W.H. Auden



Walter Ramsey

[gyzzzmo]

music is only relative

[carmt23]

Music is the verses of the soul. In Spanish its "Versos del alma". Music is relative but like any other art it has standards.

[gyzzzmo]

Music is the verses of the soul. In Spanish its "Versos del alma". Music is relative but like any other art it has standards.

I think the general idea is that art/music doesnt really have standards. Else modern(abstract) music shouldnt be called 'music'.
My personal opinion though is that it does have standards, abstract/modern music is no music to me, just some random combination of notes of some crazy or incapable human being.

[rc]

A lot of people like to boil art down to being purely subjective.  I think it's an intellectual cop-out, when discussion reaches that point there's not much left to say but "I like/dislike it".  But what's more interesting are the reasons somebody likes or dislikes a piece.

The 'everything subjective' viewpoint opens up the possibility of ridiculous things like symphonies for 100-whatever metronomes, 4'33', or Martin Creed (

).  Some I would consider mere con(trovery) artists, others I might consider closer to philosophy, and I'm sure there's also plenty of modern art that's actually quite good.  The good stuff just doesn't get as much press as the controversial, which maybe is a lot of the appeal of being a con artist.

...I could probably rant all day about overly conceptual stretches-the-term-art.