Wednesday, October 08, 2003

What is Music. Given my long running now-half-joking quasi-philosophical discussion of "What is Music" with my friend and former colleague Anthony Bradley, I couldn't resist (re)posting the following post from Slashdot. My favorite part is Ka-Blamo, which converts any binary file into a WAV file by putting a header in front of it! (BTW, All this started when Anthony foolishly <grin> denied that Rap was Music.) What Counts as Music and Why? Posted by michael on Friday October 03, @07:40PM from the perl-jam dept. The Importance of writes "There has been much discussion about compulsory licensing schemes. Most of the debate has been about music. But what happens when any file can easily be converted into a sound file and back again? Can shareware authors convert their software to digital music and get paid for sharing it? Can pornographers get paid for turning images into sound? Scott Matthews has written a program (Ka-Blamo) that does the conversion. LawMeme looks at some of the issues. This raises the question, what should count as music and why?" 7:10:20 AM