La musique, c'est du bruit qui pense (Victor Hugo)
(roughly translates to Music is a thinking noise)
I think the whole point of Real Music / Fake Music is pretty ridiculous. The most trivial definition of music is "Music is an art form consisting of sound and silence expressed through time." (thanks wikipedia). The fact that there would be "fake music" implies that this music would not consist of sound and silence
quite a nonsensical statement indeed.
I think people who listen to styles of music that could be considered as more "elaborated" (e.g. classical music, prog rock, etc) - because there are more layers, more solos, more technicity involved, etc - tend to overlook over styles, because, precisely, they seem less elaborated. But:
1) because they're "less elaborated" does not mean they're better or worse: it's all about emotion, feeling. You could shake people to tears with a 2 minutes track based on two chords, or a simple pad, or just a loop, etc, and you could bore people to death with a super constructed 30 minutes tracks involving multiple directionless ultra technical solos
2) even "elaborated" is a matter of opinion, actually: everything is subjective. A lot of people tend to think that technicity is a sign of elaboration; I don't: because one is able to recite a super technic pattern he's learnt in his 8th year in conservatoire does not mean he's doing anything elaborated. On the other hand, I remember showing some ultra layered noise track to some people two years ago, and they thought it was just an attempt at recreating the noise of a plane's reactor taking off - and definitely not music -, while I thought it was fantasticly constructed and gorgeous, a great composition. There's no right or wrong.
So, basically, everything is music, in a sense. There are records of pure silence, or fields recordings, or doors screeching, etc ; yet they're music. Music is what you want it to be. There's no such thing as "real" or "false" music
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edit: damn, it's been a while since i last posted something that long
