Nicely done Bryon Dickens.
You make my point for me.
You seem "wilfully" ignorant of the contents of my posts.
Much of your new post is about working within a system and it's "rules".
Again, you make my point for me.
I suggested that someone might begin to create without reference to a set of rules.
"...one has to use it similar to the way others do if one wishes to be comprehensible."
Again you make my point for me.
I didn't restrict musical history to a couple of centuries. I was writing of the rules, and that'd be the rules of harmony specifically, that are in fact based on a particular period of western musical history.
Oral communication isn't as restricted as you seem to make out: communication can be informal utterances as well as crafted sentences or expressive noise.
You don't see your self as an oppressor but by maintaining a myopic frame of reference it is what you, and many of us if we can't accommodate alternatives to a language, a culture or an history, become.
If the O.P. hears microtonality in his mind and wants to express it...ace!
If the O.P. hears big band swing and wants to make it...ace!
If the O.Pressor wants to limit expression to their concept of communication or language or expression...if their criteria for success is that they understand what is being communicated then blah!
If you lack the self awareness then it's not my part to lead you to the mirror.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJHaDMMqdJA


Last edited by rayc; 11/18/22 09:20 PM.
Cheers
rayc
"What's so funny about peace, love & understanding?" - N.Lowe