"You call that music?! Sounds like a broken car alarm..."
Sound familiar? Something most people that are into Electronic Bangin Stuff will regularly get thrown at them from unappreciative friends/family. But maybe the idea of considering the bleepedy bleep noises that microwaves/computers/mobile phones/etc produce as 'music' isn't all that crazy. Take Apple Computer's Macintosh Startup sound; that's music to my ears.
To prove my point, a couple of guys from Berlin called Transformer di Roboter had the rather awesome idea of using Apple's epic sound (created by Jim Reekes) as the bassline for a cover of MJ's Stranger in Moscow. The original idea behind Transformer was to do covers of known pop hits, using cliches of contrasting musical styles and... musical language.
This tune is likely to raise a few eyebrows if played at the next family gathering: but despite being based on a 3-second synthesizer
chord, it's making me nod my head like a little chipmunk. This underlines that asking questions like "Is it Music? Is it Art" is often irrelevant. Whether it's a star soprano singing her final aria, a badly sung karaoke performance or my latest ringtone; they are all part of the musical language we know the world and our own minds by.
(Doesn't mean some of the stuff we rock out to IS pretty funny)
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