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in what way do you not understand it?
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why of all possible phrases, that one detaches itself from the song and repeats in my brain until that fucking depeche mode song gets conjured, then they run together for a while as a kind of infernal mashup.
the opening riff comes from a song i kinda like, so its not like other earworms adduced here.
and the fact that this is a chicago=specific earworm (for me anyway) baffles me even more. that's why i was wondering about the ambient sounds, dominant pitches (even those which you cant hear--ask people in a city to hum a pitch long enough and they'll find a tone that you can link to electrical current...)
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Music is more than duration. Music has nothing to do with recording equipment.
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a fixed duration is a structure.
sound features that are strung together within a fixed duration (in a recording) are compositional features.
you can learn them by repeating the recording.
as you learn them, you impose or infer (its hard to say which) patterns.
these patterns are musical.
a piece of recording equipment is simply one device that allows you to fix durations.
audio recordings of my refrigerator are lovely music--very complex juxtapositions of sine waves. if i played such a recording between others of, say,. tape music, you wouldnt know that it was just my refrigerator running.
whether something is music at the level of structure and whether you like it are different.
you might not like my refrigerator sound. but 4'33" of it is just as much music as a chamber piece, or a pop tune, or anything else.
the distinctions are about mapping your aesthetic preferences: what you dont like, you might call noise. but that's only about what you do or dont like--it says nothing about the question of whether 4'33" of refrigerator sounds--which contain considerable complexity--is music or not.