Musical vs everyday listening --- an illustrative example

[Kevin Austin <kevin.austin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmmm ...

Maybe we're headed for the discussion about the [multiple] 
definitions of noise. Why not! The example I use is:

At three o'clock in the morning, the wailing siren of an ambulance 
outside my bedroom window -- the same one I listened to in Varese 
just three hours previously, is noise. Unless I am lying unconscious 
on the floor.


Best wishes

Kevin



> Date:    Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:49:12 +0100
> From:    Michael Büchler
> Subject: Musical vs everyday listening --- an illustrative example
>
> Dear list members
>
> The quote from John Cage reminds me to a little movie clip I have 
> seen recently. It shows illustratively how the sound (or noise) of 
> everyday objects may be transformed into a musical experience.
>
> Here is a link to "Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers":
> http://www.atomfilms.com/film/six_drummers.jsp
>
> Michael Buechler
>
> University Hospital Zurich
> Experimental Audiology
> Zurich, Switzerland
>
> >  Kevin Austin wrote:
>  > There is the anecdotal (?) John Cage quote: "Music is all around us,
> if we only had ears, we wouldn't need concert halls.