<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jan 20, 2009, at 10:01 PM, Kim Cascone wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I would rather that the listener take an active role in the <br>production of meaning<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Or, as someone said a while back:</div><div><br></div><div>"Music to me is the background to a mental picture, but the exact interpretation must be made by the listener, hence the music is only half composed and the listener himself should attack the composition to get a mental repercussion. The listener has to add the meaning."</div><div><br></div><div>Klaus Schulze, liner notes to <i>Mirage</i> (1977)</div><div><br></div><div>Great minds, &c.</div></body></html>