Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Blog # 17

Is music just the songs a person hears on the radio or that piece composed by Mozart?  Or can music be anything?  "The Stupid Orchestra" arranged by Micheal Petermann shows us that music doesn't always come in the most conventional forms. 


Yes, it does sound a bit strange and many can argue that it just sounds like noise but it must be music to someone, right?  It must be because live performances of the Stupid Orchestra were played at the MKG Hamburg until the end of April with people attending them.

I watched this video in amusement while pondering what makes something music and something just noise.  I've come to believe that  what makes something music is all about perspectives.  People see (and hear) things differently.  While one person might see bird chirping as music another could just find it to be a nuisance.  Music is like visual arts where what defines something as a work of art is just opinions.  

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