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>>yes, but a digital recording of that piece, has, by the definition of
>>digital, been reduced to numbers, has it not?? is the emotion therefore lost
>>on a CD or other digital media?
>>
>>I'd say , No.
>
>Leaving out stuff like quantisation errors... :-)  I'd agree with 
>you.  Of course you can reduce almost anything to numbers.  However, 
>to me a description is not the same as a representation.  A digital 
>recording would be a representation and not a description.
>"Description" to me seems to imply something about "meaningfulness". 
>Clearly a bunch of 1's and 0's on a CD is not bvery meaningful.


You can also record the sound of trash can when you throw a rotten egg in 
it - digitially with 0's and 1's - but most would not consider that 
music. However, you never know what will pop up on the next hit record.