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"Integral reality is also to be found in integral music: the short you find in quadraphonic spaces or can compose on a computer. The music in which sounds have been clarified and expurgated and which, shorn of all noise and static, is, to speak, restored to its technical perfection. (The sounds of such music are no longer the play of a form, but the actaulization of a program. It is a music reduced to a pure wavelength, the final reception of which, the tangible effect on the listener, is exactly programmed too, as in a closed circuit. It is, in a sense, a virtual music, flawless and without imagination, merging into its own model, and even the enjoyment of it is virtual enjoyment. Is this still music?) The question must be open to doubt, since they have actually come up with the idea of reintroducing noise into it to make it more musical."
-Jean Baudrillard
"Integral reality is also to be found in integral music: the short you find in quadraphonic spaces or can compose on a computer. The music in which sounds have been clarified and expurgated and which, shorn of all noise and static, is, to speak, restored to its technical perfection. (The sounds of such music are no longer the play of a form, but the actaulization of a program. It is a music reduced to a pure wavelength, the final reception of which, the tangible effect on the listener, is exactly programmed too, as in a closed circuit. It is, in a sense, a virtual music, flawless and without imagination, merging into its own model, and even the enjoyment of it is virtual enjoyment. Is this still music?) The question must be open to doubt, since they have actually come up with the idea of reintroducing noise into it to make it more musical."
-Jean Baudrillard
