2011-05-03, 09:30 PM
Quote:Perception is not truth. All things follow laws, and those laws are truth. Music must follow those same laws and by following those laws it becomes good. I can't blow into a rusty trumpet and claim the noise it produces is good music because I perceive it to be. I am not qualified to explain exactly what it is that makes good music but I can certainly say that most of what listen to in modern culture doesn't qualify. But even though it may not be technically good it can still be enjoyable.
You know, you're trying to apply an absolute truth/law to a human created concept. There's nothing absolute about art. There are no laws to follow in order for art to be "truly good". There are only opinions. Because the concept of art (ours), having being created and therefore tied to humanity, will always be ever changing as long as the human keeps changing.
A law is the law of gravity. One not tied by the will of humans. Unchangeable and always present no matter if the human (or animal) believes in it or not. That's a law, that's absolute.