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Originally Posted by Aj_
I feel like I'm arguing what the colour of something is with a colour blind person. I can't see how you can apply a word like specific noise(unwanted, or random sound) to a music genre.
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Because the existence of a name for a group of similar sounding recordings doesn't mean that the result is music.
Is John Cage's
4:33 really music? I'd argue not, though I know people who would say that it is, and it fits into a music genre known as Experimental Music. OK, so this piece is about the
absence of any sound (or, arguably, about the background noise that almost always exists around us), but the point stands.
Equally, someone hitting a lot of pans at random could be described as music by its creator, but I suspect that a lot of people would hear it and say that it was noise.
