What is music? Music is
What is musiking? The act of performing and listening to music.
“uniting them in their common purpose of buying and selling”
“isolating him from his surroundings. Inside his head is an infnite space charged with music that only he can hear”
uniting and isolating are opposites that music manages to
“There is no such thing as music. Music is not a thing ar all but an activity, something that people do. The apparent thing “music” is a figment, an abstraction of the action, whose reality vanishes as soon as we examine it at all closely.“
“What is the meaning of music?” becomes the more manageable ‘What is the meaning of this work (or these works) of music?”- Which is not the same question at all.”
“The presumed autonomous “thingness” of works of music is, of course, only part of the prevailing modern philosophy of art in general. What is valued is not the action of art, not the act of creating, and even less that of perceiving and responding, but the created art object itself.”
The medium is who perceives and responds to the musiking
What are the relationships between those taking part and the physical setting?
What are the relationships among those taking part?
What are the relationships between the sounds that are being made?
Music is structural and sonic is free from structure
Glossary –
Anodyne = inoffensive, dull.
Reification = when you treat something immaterial as a material thing