On Wednesday 05 September 2007 09:16, Duane Nickull wrote:
> On 9/5/07 8:44 AM, "John F. Sowa" <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Duane,
> >
> > Sheet music is *not* music. It is a written language,
> > which has a very definite syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.
> > The pragmatics, of course, is how the sheet is supposed to
> > be interpreted by a performer.
>
> You are correct. Music is only music when it creates sound waves. (01)
Hmmm... I don't buy the "if a tree falls in the woods ..." bit, but in
this case, music is only music in a perceiving human's mind. (02)
In fact, I'm inclined to believe that some day we really will figure out
how to directly stimulate sensory neurons in a sufficiently precise,
detailed and complete way that totally internal "virtual reality" will
be possible. Then a person could experience music in the absence of the
pressure waves we call "sound." (03)
Randall Schulz (04)
_________________________________________________________________
Message Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/
Subscribe/Config: http://ontolog.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/ontolog-forum/
Unsubscribe: mailto:ontolog-forum-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Shared Files: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/
Community Wiki: http://ontolog.cim3.net/wiki/
To Post: mailto:ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (05)
|