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Michael Peters wrote: "interesting idea ... but ... I find myself more and more simply listening to what is there ... that is, instead of listening to music when I'm walking around, I find it more and more interesting to just listening to whatever sound is there, maybe in the Cage sense that everything is music. I bet that using a chip to make everything sound synthetic would quickly sound boring. Listening to the real world won't ever get boring as long as you're interested in the real world :-)" ************************** Oh, yes, I agree with you completely, Michael. I just think it is so fascinating how many ways, people's creativity manifests itself in the musical world. I have been banging and blowing on things for ever so I'm really interested in the world of sound. I also like John Cage's definition of music: "Music is just organized sound". Because we have been getting a lot of rain and wind lately, there are a lot of very resonant sounds abounding near where I live: rain coming down on resonant pieces of metal and wood on the houses.....................the phase changes of the sound of rain as one walks into an open foyer..................a particularly musical sounding (but sometimes annoying) branch that rubs on my window creating a very high squeaking sound. I keep promising myself to take a recorder around with me to capture these things but never do. Perhaps it is in their intransigence that they are so beautiful. Music sometimes is about attaching oneself to something and then completely letting go of it. Although my take is different, I love that Stan Card's music (Stanosaur) cannot be accurately captured on vinyl or digitally. You just have to be in the room to really get the viscerality of what he is doing...............no recording medium can capture it. It's why I don't ever like missing on of his shows (even if I was a nervous nelly and asked him to turn it down at the festival this year...........lol)