What is music for?

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Go nuts.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Sociologically, anthropologically, psychologically, emotionally, spiritually, culturally...

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Biologically!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

CoM, Nick, the story it told and the story it helped make happen. That's what music is for.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 30 September 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Fighting silence.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

To feed souls?

― Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Like all art, it exists to give people something else to talk about.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

It's just for fun, innit?

― Nick H, Tuesday, 30 September 2003 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Aristotle, Nietzsche, Adorno & Kogan to the thread!
Also - Britney, Ravi Shankar, Gesualdo, Üllar Jörberg, Pygmies & black metalists!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Marcello and Tom OTM thus far (Nick H too). But I want more... (as ever.)

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

so I'm wrong?!?? okay how about to feed people in love, ala what Shakespeare said

― Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Vic, I rather like wot you (& Sh'peare) say.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Nobody can be 'wrong' with this question!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, you can be wrong! if you say "nothing" =)

maybe music is ultimately just to communicate in that higher way that mere language by itself cannot think of reaching

― Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Sexo, pudor, y lágrimas.

That and for killing.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

it's the only type of organised auditory experience we have access to. In fact it's probably the only type of non-utilitarian auditory experience that exists.

― damian_nz (damian_nz), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"non-utilitarian"?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Escapism. You have too much time and you're bound to fill it up with sounds.

― nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

To be honest, what else would we listen to? Each other? God.....

― Nick H, Tuesday, 30 September 2003 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

It's for whatever you need it for. Fighting, fucking, crying, thinking, projecting, dancing, seducing, for comfort, to be different. It is without doubt the greatest thing ever.

― scottjames23 (worrysome-man), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

It's for making the unreal real.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

music is for drowning out other sounds.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

music exists solely to give the members of this board something to talk about.
actually, my best guess would be entertainment, from the cheapest to the most fulfilling way.

― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

fucking

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

dito. without nothing to keep a rhythm to i'd be bangin all off-time nshit.

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

An NYT article abt. this (linked from plastic.com): "Hey Cupcake, Be My Auditory Cheesecake"

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Music's there for people to complain about other people not caring enough, or correctly about

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

.... it!

MUH!
Music's there to make waves in your coffee cup.

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Jeremy; maybe, biologically, we like music because of it's state as patterns of sound. Nature, after all, loves and creates patterns in all things, whether we see them easily or not. This could also explain why music with simpler, clearer patterns is more popular than music with obscured or complex patterns (obv. very generally speaking), the confused and covered patterns of noise and melody and rhythm in Fennesz come to mind, compared to, say, recognisable Motown song structures and drum beats/sounds. Also, as different people have different tastebuds, presumably different people have different 'earbuds' too, hence, meaning that we perceive different things in vastly different ways even though we 'hear' the same thing.

Some great and funny ideas in here, keep 'em coming.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the noises? (But I also enjoy the silence ho ho thanks officer I'll go quietly.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Music is for us, and the aliens that come to find us.

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

A vehicle for money and sex.

― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

...and ILM.

― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

money, sex & ilm are all the same, dude

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

....i always thought this was just a front for a cult.

― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

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