Re: [LAU] Is this the band Sky? Was: Text-based sound visualisation? Re: Linux-audio-user Digest, Vol 52, Issue 32

While I agree that good music (or any art for that matter) should communicate something, I think that such a discussion, however fun, is pretty pointless, since it's all subjective. Communication of emotions? Certainly, but certain forms of virtuosic musical styles can take one on an intellectual trip so far and out that it rivals any gut-wrenching experience in terms of intensity. I love highly intellectual music and I love highly emotional music too, yet some high-flown music is just inaccessible to me, and some obviously emotional music can sound to me like useless whining. Talent also doen't have that much to do with it. A talentless musician with a vision is probably beter off than a visionless virtuoso (unless he is teamed up with the right people, of course). Same with auto-tune: I agree that it can sound extremely egregious in modern pop music, but it can also be used to good effect in achieving a certain "feel" and I certainly wouldn't discount someone just because they were using it. Anyway, this is just a verbose way to say that we could discuss what constitutes a legitimate fusion of classic and pop all day and all night, and, most likely, everyone on this list would still have a unique answer. In the end, isn't it why we choose to make music: because it wants to be wild, free, and hopefully unique to who we are as individuals? Cheers, S.M.