Re: "Repetition defines music"

[Todd Elliott <toddbert@gmail.com>]

0'00" by John Cage. 

Sort of. 

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:59 AM, <mike@michaelplishka.com> wrote:

Brilliant!  Any music pieces that are a singularity?

 

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the one thing that all music has in common is duration. all musical pieces last for a length of time, even if it ridiculously long:

 

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On Wednesday, March 26, 2014 1:52 PM, In Mobile <in-mobile@laposte.net> wrote:

I'll add:
Ultimately, any definition will be discarded as unreliable. While Leon Theremin introduced dancing about music, talking about it is blah blah blah.
You know.

So basically: music is a statement. It is so when you say so.
And that's it.

Olivier

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