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Its fascinating how the interest and energy around a project like this manages to be self-reinforcing. The idea on the face of it is quite nonsensical: building
by dzdt 3y ago
Its fascinating how the interest and energy around a project like this manages to be self-reinforcing. The idea on the face of it is quite nonsensical: building a machine to make continuous droning sounds for years at a time. How likely is it that the song actually would play to completion? The fascination is that it is not impossible that the effort will succeed, and its already gone far enough to be quite amazing in the attempt. And in the process its achieved a completely new way to experience music. That last part is both shallow (its a pretty boring way to experience music, and its hard to call it music at that time scale) and deep (with this performance, a chord change is opportunity for ceremony and news releases: its an event!).
- lo_zamoyski 3y agoThe human capacity to stretch credulity never ceases to amaze me.
- skullfrog 3y agohow is it nonsensical?
- bigstrat2003 3y agoBecause it's not something which will ever be pleasant to listen to, and thus is missing the entire point of music. All for some weird novelty thing.
- skullfrog 3y agoto you, maybe
- noman-land 3y agoNot all music is pleasant, nor should it be.
- dustyleary 3y agoI would still argue that this is not music. It's definitely Art, in that it is making a statement, provoking a response, etc. But, it's just a nearly continuous sound, except for the pitch change every few years. It's a Sound, but it's not Music. If you were to argue that it is Music, I would ask, "Which part of the piece is your favorite? Why do you prefer it to the other parts?" Trying to answer these questions with a straight face becomes difficult. If this is Music, then is it possible to make an art installation which has making Sound as its primary focus, and have it not be Music?
- jjulius 3y ago>If this is Music, then is it possible to make an art installation which has making Sound as its primary focus, and have it not be Music? Yes.
- noman-land 3y agoMy opinion has always been that intent is what turns something from sound to music, or from non-art to art. I might pose the question back to you. At what tempo does the piece go from being music to being sound?
- me_me_me 3y agoits a modern performance art, meaning and signifying nothing.
- TaylorAlexander 3y agoA friend of mine was a music major and listened to some very experimental music that was not particularly pleasant to listen to. You really can't ever say what "the point" of art is. The point of art is that every piece has its own point, or none at all.
- yencabulator 3y agoIf this is music then paintings are movies that just haven't had the second frame painted yet.