[LAU] Re: That must suck. For me it's about beauty -- music is justone path

[Louis Acresti]

> My take is that art is our attempt at emulating nature and realizing our
> ineptness (pointlessness?) in matching its beauty.

Of all art, I think music follows this trend the most.

What I wonder, is how any particular music can convey any sort of
objective emotion. The emotion we tie to particular sounds depends on
what we're experiencing the first time we hear it. Why, then, do so
many people tend to agree about the feelings certain songs convey?
Perhaps this beauty-in-nature concept is the only explanation.

- Lou

On 4/4/07, Ivica Ico Bukvic <ico at vt.edu> wrote:
> > Marcos Guglielmetti escribe:
> > > Maybe noise is beauty... I dont know... the sounds of the ocean are like
> > > noice, just like the wind too... I think this is beautiful, but, because
> > I
> > > dont like the car's, bus, planes, trains, etc., sounds, I think there is
> > > almost no beauty into the industrial age sounds (factories, etc.)
>
> It seems likely that you don't like these sounds because of their
> psychoacoustic association. To put it bluntly if every morning you were
> being prematurely woken up by a beautiful bird song of a bird who lives on a
> tree next to your window, I am pretty sure that you would eventually learn
> to dislike that sound as much as you currently dislike the sound of your
> alarm clock. All sounds we are aware of are simply a combination of sine
> tones perceptible by our ears. Therefore, the only difference between a
> sound of an ocean and a steam engine is ultimately their "recipe." If you
> consider all sounds on this, much more equal plane, then it becomes rather
> apparent that all sounds have beauty that simply needs to be uncovered
> regardless of their source. This art is also known as acousmatic music (or a
> sound removed from its source).
>
> > You've discovered the point. Men are capable of creating beauty but
> > unfortunately nature is much more capable. The harder you try to
>
> My take is that art is our attempt at emulating nature and realizing our
> ineptness (pointlessness?) in matching its beauty. For this reason, we tend
> to use art as our response (perception?) to nature. In this respect,
> man-made contraptions are just another extension of nature and its laws.
>
> Ico
>
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