Now, I don’t want you to think I don’t know what I’m talking about so I’ll go into a short history lesson on myself. I took piano lessons as a child. In middle school I started playing orchestral percussion. I played in 2 orchestras as well as spending entire summers in Michigan at music camps. In high school, I was in the marching band, jazz band, and I took some music theory cl

asses. I also started my own jazz/funk combo group. I went to an audio engineering school in Orlando and now I’m signed to a record label as a producer and I’m working every night in my studio at my apartment. Sorry, I don’t mean to come off as being egotistical I just wanted to validate my opinion on the subject.

In Merriam-Webster’s dictionary music is defined as “the art of combining tones so that they are pleasing, expressive, or intelligible.” Personally, I find this explanation totally ridiculous. I believe that any sound can be music if it is heard by the correct ear. An air conditioner, the rain hitting a tin roof, leaves blowing in the wind, a truck passing by, all of these things can be music. John Cage is a composer who was most famous in the 60’s and 70’s. He wrote a piece called “4’33” ” in which no sound is ever made by the orchestra. Essentially, it is 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence. How could this possibly be considered music? Well, Cage thought that the sound of the audien

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