Re: [microsound] being 'political' in non-verbal music

[aleks vasic <bvasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Which leads to my point: that IMHO music is more like a code than 
> language. It can clearly convey messages that are understood by 
> 'transmitter and receiver' through some level of agreed cultural 
> meaning (the less widespread the understanding, the more specialist 
> the codes - and the music), but unlike text or stoplight codes, the 
> code of music doesn't convey language, and unlike language (or 
> 'language about music') it cannot genuinely critique itself, convey a 
> manifesto, or request another cup of coffee.
I agree, but also feel that meaning can be assigned to anything, by 
anyone.


> > Score one for the neanderthal in the opening scene of 2001space 
> > Oddesey  when he realized a bone can be used to crush some sods head 
> > with.
>
> And then he started drumming with it, which IMO encapsulates the 
> prototype of 'instrumental' military music ; )
>
> S.

LOL!   We use whatever we can to achieve a set goal.  That was the gist 
of that blurb...


aLEKs


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