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offline Rostasky from United States on 2005-03-15 14:17 [#01534261]
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It is my firm belief that whether or not music is 'good' or
not is more or less objective. The only differences in
taste arise when a label is created by society for music and
people decide whether or not they want that label.

Agree or disagree?


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2005-03-15 14:17 [#01534262]
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1st!


 

offline Combo from Sex on 2005-03-15 14:18 [#01534263]
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disagree


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2005-03-15 14:20 [#01534265]
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The whole thing about music is just.. odd anyway... I want
to listen to 3 or 4 minutes of organised and arranged
noise... we're just tickling our ears and our brains, and
that's a good thing.


 

offline darkpromenade from Australia on 2005-03-15 14:20 [#01534266]
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disagree


 

offline boobah from pants on 2005-03-15 14:22 [#01534268]
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I agree with the first sentence.


 

offline plaidzebra from so long, xlt on 2005-03-15 14:22 [#01534269]
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ach du lieber!

if you know what i mean...


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2005-03-15 14:22 [#01534270]
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Have I been walking in cirrcles.


 

offline welt on 2005-03-15 14:22 [#01534271]
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good joke, motherfucker. "objectivity".


 

offline uzim on 2005-03-15 14:22 [#01534272]
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disagree


 

offline brokephones from Londontario on 2005-03-15 14:23 [#01534273]
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I am making art
I am making art
I am making art
I am making art
I am making art
I am making art
I am making art


 

offline welt on 2005-03-15 14:23 [#01534274]
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i'm a bit offending today. erase motherfucker in your minds.


 

offline jkd from Twitch City (Canada) on 2005-03-15 14:24 [#01534277]
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you're just trying to piss people off, right?



 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2005-03-15 14:25 [#01534279]
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quality changes subjectively with one human's emotions or
feelings or state-of-mind at that particular time,

thus any music a human does not like is simply a matter of
that human not being able to be in the same mental state of
that/those who created the music, and those who listen.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2005-03-15 14:25 [#01534280]
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ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2005-03-15 14:25 [#01534282]
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in real art there is nothing accidental. it is mathematics.
everything in it can be calculated, everything can be known
beforehand. the artist knows and understands what he wants
to convey and his work cannot produce one impression on one
man and another impression on another, presuming, of course,
people on one level. it will always, and with mathematical
certainty, produce one and the same impression.

at the same time the same work of art will produce different
impressions on people of different levels. and people of
lower levels will never receive from it what people of
higher levels receive. this is real, objective art. imagine
some scientific work - a book on astronomy or chemistry. it
is impossible that one person should understand it in one
way and another in another way. everyone who is sufficiently
prepared and who is able to read this book will understand
what the author means, and precisely as the author means it.
an objective work of art is just such a book, except that it
affects the emotional and not only the intellectual side of
man.


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2005-03-15 14:27 [#01534283]
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pleasure is subjective


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2005-03-15 14:28 [#01534284]
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You would one example only—music. Objective music is all
based on 'inner octaves.' And it can obtain not only
definite psychological results but definite physical
results. There can be such music as would freeze water.
There can be such music as would kill a man instantaneously.


 

offline darkpromenade from Australia on 2005-03-15 14:28 [#01534285]
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disagree


 

offline Rostasky from United States on 2005-03-15 14:34 [#01534290]
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Pleasure is not subjective. How our logic guides us to
think which pleasure would be better in forethought of
receiving one of two (having to make a choice) pleasures,
is, however.


 

offline welt on 2005-03-15 14:35 [#01534291]
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i had a different thought today. i tend to change my frame
of mind frequently, i'm INCONSISTENT. with the effect that
the same music always sounds more or less different to me
when i listen to it again. the longer i have not listened to
it genereally sounds more different. EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT
PROBABLY. if you are a different person today than you were
yesterday and listen to the same music you did yesterday you
actually hear other music (it has a different effect on you,
it sounds different, because you interprete it differently).


i came to the conclusion that there are no two persons who
ever heard the same song.

but fuck english, i lack vocabulary.


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2005-03-15 14:39 [#01534294]
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i couldn't agree more, brother.


 

offline pomme de terre from obscure body in the SK System on 2005-03-15 14:39 [#01534295]
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I agree with everything that has been said so far.


 

offline Raz0rBlade_uk on 2005-03-15 14:39 [#01534296]
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in theory I agree


 

offline bryce_berny from chronno (Canada) on 2005-03-15 15:58 [#01534376]
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I'll agree that some people have objectively piss poor
tastes


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-03-15 15:59 [#01534378]
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this is all cack.


 

offline Chihiro from twins land on 2005-03-15 16:04 [#01534382]
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i don't agree to any of this.... i just love music.
Nothing more to add too it really.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2005-03-15 16:05 [#01534383]
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I think so too, but I'll exchange the a in "cack" for o.


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2005-03-15 16:05 [#01534384]
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Hahaha, where's that crap from?


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-03-15 16:08 [#01534391]
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okoy.


 

offline i_x_ten from arsemuncher on 2005-03-15 16:10 [#01534394]
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i don't really understand the objectivity of this thread as
it differentiates as to individual levels of interpretation
as to what we define as the coming of the label or
disintergration from the form, as it stands.

anyone agree or disagree?


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-03-15 16:13 [#01534395]
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http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showtopic=17339&hl=objecti
ve

YOU COPYCAT, YOU!


 

offline i_x_ten from arsemuncher on 2005-03-15 16:16 [#01534396]
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relax, no oone reads watmm.


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2005-03-15 16:19 [#01534399]
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actually welt, the "no two persons hearing it the same way"
is how i describe electronic music to my friends who don't
know anything about it

i treat it like a software program that is compiled.

after a period of listens, the user picks up on certain
sounds / blips / whatever, and builds their lib. off that
... eventually, they "compile" the song in their head based
off the sounds they subconsciously heard ... etc.

so everyone picks up on different notes/parts of a song, or
everyone follows the synth up and down differently, etc.

and it is all compiled differently ... unlike pop music
where it's hard NOT to hear it the same way as everyone
else

cheers


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-03-15 16:24 [#01534403]
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"so everyone picks up on different notes/parts of a song,
or
everyone follows the synth up and down differently, etc.

and it is all compiled differently ... unlike pop music
where it's hard NOT to hear it the same way as everyone
else "

personally i think that pop music is easier for the
listener, but if everyone would be willing to put enough
time and focus on more complicated/different music they'd
all hear same thing..the thing is majority of people just
don't want that, they want something easy listening,
something to play in the background..they don't want to
really listen..


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2005-03-15 16:26 [#01534409]
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it's easier by definition!


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2005-03-15 16:27 [#01534410]
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which is why it takes me 3-4 weeks of solid listening before
i can fuking grasp the latest (and previous) autechre
albums

jeezous,

ill listen and be like "no no i just dont ... BAH!"

then one day itll hit me like a ton of bricks and ill be
solid on it :)

chaos to bliss, and alls i had to do was take ^-1 at every
3e^2) intervals


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2005-03-15 16:28 [#01534411]
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but rreally why should everryone want to devote time
to listening to a rrecorrd overr and overr picking it aparrt
and giving time so they can fully apprreciate it. music may
be ourr hobby but it's not everryones. people who arre into
carrs can't expect everryone to know the differrence, orr
even want to know the differrence between a good and a bad
paint job.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-03-15 16:30 [#01534414]
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who said that? :)

all those who don't want to devote their time to music
should shut the hell up when it comes to music..check
elusive, he works hard to get enjoyment from it!


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2005-03-15 16:33 [#01534420]
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good music is good music if i think it's good. you might
not think it's good but i don't fucking care what you think.
it makes me shake my ass or tickles my fancy or something
and if you can't see that then you can go fuck yourself!
Fuck you! you fucking fascist! you can't dictate my
opinion! i wanna listen to fucking Linkin Park and drive
around and flip off cops and you ain't gonna stop me! cuz
linkin park fukin' rulz and radiohead is a bunch of pussies
singing about "boo hoo" and shaving their armpits and only
fagits listen to 'em anyway you fag!


 

offline Rostasky from United States on 2005-03-15 16:39 [#01534439]
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You don't have an opinion.

That is my point.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2005-03-15 17:23 [#01534530]
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primary, objective properties: mass, width, length, weight,
durability, and other measurable properties that are not
subject to debate.

secondary, subjective properties: color, smell, sound, and
stuff like that.

that's from the mechanists, but it's a good definition.


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2005-03-15 17:36 [#01534567]
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unless you think they are no absolute truths. but i do, so
don't argue it with me :)


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2005-03-15 21:40 [#01534774]
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anyone know what happens when you do that to autechre music?
no one is responding,

that sucks :(


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2005-03-15 21:50 [#01534780]
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if you really want to grasp what quality really is, might i
suggest you read zen & the art of motorcycle maintenance. it
sums it up well in 400 pages.


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2005-03-15 21:51 [#01534781]
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the only part of me i am happy for is that i dont make music
which further contempts me to not understanding or
"grasping" quality or m usic.


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2005-03-16 01:18 [#01534806]
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I agree. Quality in anything, not just music, is totally a
objective thing...


 

offline tnavelerri on 2005-03-16 01:35 [#01534808]
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I agree that quality can be measured objectively. I find
that the people who don't appreciate good music, more or
less don't understand the processes and ingenuity behind it.
Particularly with electronic music, and classical.


 

offline Atli from Reykjavík (Iceland) on 2005-03-16 01:47 [#01534810]
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music affects people differently that's for sure, but there
are other factors than how it affects people emotionally.
assuming that people's hearing is all the same is wrong.
"how" you hear it is another factor. two persons might be
hearing something totally different because their not
focusing on the same object in the music. two people might
have the same name for a colour but it doesn't mean they're
seeing the same thing.



 

offline -crazone from smashing acid over and over on 2005-03-16 01:49 [#01534811]
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quality yes, taste no


 


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