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June 21, 2005
Music and noise are generally seen as opposites.
In the new audio culture it has become increasingly difficult to distinquish music from what is seen as its other: silence, noise and non-musical sound. This has expanded the concept of music beyond the narrow and specialized domain that was demarcated in the Western academy in terms of melody, harmony and rhythm.
Is music now the attempt to codify and stratify noise and silence with the composer as an organizer of sound?
Our soundscape is changing from industrial and urban sounds to the sounds (or noises?) of buying and selling. Just think of shopping malls and radio advertisements. Money buys space from noise and the option of silence or solitude.
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