Subject: Musical vs everyday listening --- an illustrative example From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=FCchler_Michael?= <Michael.Buechler@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:49:12 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Dear list members The quote from John Cage reminds me to a little movie clip I have seen recently. It shows illustratively how the sound (or noise) of everyday objects may be transformed into a musical experience. Here is a link to "Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers": http://www.atomfilms.com/film/six_drummers.jsp Michael Buechler University Hospital Zurich Experimental Audiology Zurich, Switzerland > Kevin Austin wrote: > > There is the anecdotal (?) John Cage quote: "Music is all around us, if we only had ears, we wouldn't need concert halls.