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A while back someone asked Sean from Autechre whether he had any theories on what music is and he came out with this:
yeah music = speech - text. at least roughly - i reckon it's a kind of super-developed version of the pitch and intonation parts of speech (the aural bit that doesn't contain textual info)
I've always thought of music as just organised sound, but I think there's something to this given both essentially seem to be deliberate forms of aural communication, one verbal, one non-verbal (excluding lyrics).
yeah music = speech - text. at least roughly - i reckon it's a kind of super-developed version of the pitch and intonation parts of speech (the aural bit that doesn't contain textual info)
I've always thought of music as just organised sound, but I think there's something to this given both essentially seem to be deliberate forms of aural communication, one verbal, one non-verbal (excluding lyrics).