The question to ask is whether we should institutionalize one "right way" to do something, then serve that institution...

or should we serve music, and allow the possibility that many ways exist to make it?

The first musicians beat on logs and blew wind through hollow sticks. We've come a long way since then. Are those first log beaters musicians?

If you worship the paradigm of note on paper, then they aren't.

But if you worship the idea of sound for sound's sake, and gee, what can we do to make a sound that's new and interesting... then yes, the log beaters were cutting edge forward thinkers in their day.

I imagine two primitive humans talking and the one reprimands the other, saying "NO, Og, stick for KILLING, not for making noise"

But Og was secretly thinking ".. stick make noise too...Og like noise"

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