Re: Real Conlangs Here, Made-to-Order!

On Sat, 26 Apr 2003 18:21:29 +0200, Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:

>Yes. I truly think somebody who would have never come in contact with music
>could have by himself the ideas of putting sounds together, and that if it
>pleased him it would be music. After all, there are so many musical
>traditions in the world that in our ears don't sound musical at all, so who
>are we to judge whether something is music or not? Art is not only in the
>eye (or ear) of the beholder.
I like the definition Wendy Carlos gave on a Nova program "What is Music?"
a few years back. Music is "organized sound". With a broad enough
interpretation of "organized", even some of the more unusual works by John
Cage could fall under that definition.

Now, most of our conlangs could also be described as "organized sound", so
I guess that agrees perfectly with Sally Caves' description of conlangers
as "word musicians"!

(Another nice Wendy Carlos quote that ties in to recent discussions: "Did
you ever notice that there's beauty in every beast of the earth, a quality
of awesome gorgeousness, just below the fearsome exterior?)

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