alt Hacker NewsMusic as wallpaper vs music as artistic paintings.
We are fine with mass-producing wallpaper with machines. People buy this every day, no problem.
We are not fine with mass-producing framed paintings that are "art".
Both hang on the wall as decoration. Essentially the same purpose. But we have very different feelings about them and hold them to very different standards.
Music is the same. We have muzak - background music that isn't supposed to be listened to, it's just wallpaper. I don't think many people object to this being machine-made in bulk. And then we have music that is art and is supposed to be listened to explicitly. We hold this to a higher standard and expect it to be the product of human creative urges.
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Even furniture music is art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furniture_music
I have the sudden urge to frame some wallpaper.
Relevant Basquiat quote:
“Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.”
> We are not fine with mass-producing framed paintings that are "art".
Uhh... Cheap, basically AI generated art for home decor definitely exists.
> And then we have music that is art and is supposed to be listened to explicitly
Just like how most people are not sommeliers, most people just listen to pop music "slop"
> We are not fine with mass-producing framed paintings that are "art".
China is full of factories where exactly this is being done and people are fine with this.
> We are not fine with mass-producing framed paintings that are "art".
Sure “we” are; we just call them “prints” or “posters” instead of ”paintings”.