Re: conceptual art and improvisation

["David Beardsley" <db@biink.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Ritchford <tom@swirly.com>


> luca writes:
> > > surely played music by *definition* is abstract, unless you
> > > are using samples or trying to imitate a real-world thing
> > > with an instrument (which is less common than "just playing"...)
> >so, would you consider the whole poetry not abstract because it is
written ?
> >I think there can be "abstract" music as well there is "figurative"
music.
> >certain art is not abstract because of the medium used to express it,
there
> >is a lot else more.
>
> when you talk about art, "abstract" is usually the opposite of
> "representational" -- as in "what goes this represent?" "nothing,
> it's abstract."
>
> Only music concrete and program music represent anything.
> All other sorts of music are abstract by definition!

So Highway Star by Deep Purple and War Pigs by Black Sabbath are abastract?


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