When I was at school, my teacher for music class gave us the following definition:
"Music is organised sound; noise is disorganised sound."
I've always found that useful, even if it goes against my own particular tastes: if someone deliberately generates a sound, or combination of sounds, for the purpose of making those sounds (and not incidental to some other process that happens to make a sound), then it's music.
I'm sure others disagree! :)
On 28 May 2012, at 13:37, Mike Dickson wrote:
That's kind of the end of the argument, unless you want to argue 'what is music?' a
Owen
Thinking Aloud - Mellotronic & Orchestral Rock, Mostly