Subject: Re: Musical vs everyday listening --- an illustrative example From: Peter Lennox <P.Lennox@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:29:52 +0000 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Ah... - "noise" = sound that I don't want. (usually other people's sounds) regards >>> Kevin Austin <kevin.austin@xxxxxxxx> 12/01/2007 16:14 >>> 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. > > ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________