[MD] Defining Art (was Churning Point)

[Platt Holden]

> [Arlo]
> And who decided that digiderooing is "noise" while Mozart is "art"? You?

I guess by your question that you have decided primal screaming and 
farting contests are art forms. If not, who decided they aren't ? You?

> You never answered my original question, digiderooing is considered a
> beautiful, highly meaningful "art" form in aboriginal culture. Are they
> merely "indisciminatory"? Primative? Uneducated? Deluded? What?

So now it's the culture who decides what is art?  Is that your 
position?. 

> Does what is "art" in Platt's world count as what should be "art" for
> everyone?

So in your world what is art is up to a vote?
 
> By the way, I don't claim anything "is" or "is not" art, by the way.
> Unlike you, I am content to let the experience be defined as such by the
> the viewer/participant/creator.

So why question what I consider art?

> If aboriginals tell me that digiderooing
> is high art, and quite beautiful to them, who am I to tell them it is
> really only "noise", that they are "indiscriminatory", and that what *I*
> find as beautiful art in sound is really what art is.

If Platt tells you noise isn't art, who are you to tell him otherwise? 

Platt