The Logic Off Topic list

> But this too is really more noise-sculting than music. What about
recordings
> of rain storms? Bird songs. Barking dogs. Or military sound affects?
Ambient
> recordings in a train station. Babies crying. Narrations. Lectures on how
to
> get rich in real estate or gain more self-confidence. Running water.
Vacumms,
> drills, saws, and kitchen blenders. Actually I would buy a CD which took
all
> of these elements and arranged them in Logic into some grand creative
> composition. But even then I don't think they are music - just interesting
> sounds. Are all sounds music?

That's what Cage said.  I would tend to agree, inasmuch as music is whatever
the listener deems to be music.  When walking with my wife, I often hear
music in the chirping birds, screeching brakes, clanging pots, and other
sounds around me, even though my wife just hears the sounds.

   -smeet