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RE: How the music world works in less than 3 minutes

in #muse6 years ago

Great video.
Love how you explained it.
In my opinion musical organization is not natural, it is cultural. In fact, it is a mirror of the way in which a culture projects order onto the universe. It is impossible to deliberately organize sounds without an implicit observation of ordering principles: otherwise, there is no basis for the organization and we are simply left with noise. Different cultures have different metaphors and therefore different ways of ordering and parsing reality. Every piece of music consists of abstract structural relationships projected onto the sound world. What and how music means, whether the meaning is abstract or concrete, is encoded in these relationships.