You are Clutching at Straws.9Phase wrote:no, wait. you are going too far... falling into "science fiction"... try to come back to planet earth! My "chair analogy" was not mine. It was the user macmurphy who introduced that, i just answered him. Regarding all the rest: human language must be writable to be considered a tongue, otherwise it isn't. So it is music, being a language. It is not important "how" to write it, you don't need to write it on score sheet (this is just the better way to write it, at least on planet earth...). If you like, you can write it via morse code, too. But, to be considered music, IT MUST BE writable (with a pen, with a computer, with a midi sequencer, with a new form of code... everything you want: with Morse code, too, if you want to be original... the score sheet is just the best way known). It is the difference between music (writable) and sound, and/or (in human language) between a tongue and noises. That is why i can "translate" my italian thoughts into english: because of the universal rules of human language grammar. And you can correct my mistakes, you can understand i am not a native english speaker etc. because you understand the right rules, there is a code, and we must respect and follow them. Otherwise it becomes something different and you can call it "a strange echolalia, a strange ensemble of noises which remind a human tongue etc." So it is for music: without an understood code, it is not music anymore. It is just sound, funny, interesting, whatever you want... but unwritable.
If i go and hear someone play live i am listening to music. If i put that same persons cd and press play i am listening to music. Music does not have to be writable in order to be considered music. What about Musicians that play improv music? It wasnt written was it? But its still music none the less.
