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> > apparent that all sounds have beauty that simply needs to be uncovered

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> > regardless of their source. This art is also known as acousmatic music

> (or a

> > sound removed from its source).

>

> I don't buy that.  Factories and machinery have vibrations created and

> enforced by hundreds of forces working at different rates and in

> different directions, caused by objects that were assembled with very

> little regard for the sound they made.  A song bird actually hears

> what it is doing, and makes patterns based on the sound.

I invite you to please read then more on the topic of acousmatic music.

FWIW, what exactly constitutes a pattern? If there is a rhythmic vibration

of an industrial piece of machinery, how is that different (from a

"definition" standpoint) from a rhythmic drumming? I think you are mixing up

pattern with cognition. But even if we consider cognition as a point of

contention, the machinery has a purpose and a role and as such its

manifestation is not meaningless at all.
Best wishes,
Ico