Modern classical music in gaming

[Jester]

Personally, I'd say that actively listening to a song has just as much participation as singing along. Just because one has words doesn't mean that the other doesn't also have a melodic line that you can listen to or hum along with. If there wasn't any participation involved in music, people probably wouldn't listen to it.

I remember once reading an argument by Milton Babbitt that it's totally okay if modern art music is incomprehensible to 99.99% of people, because that's what advanced math is like.

Needless to say, I didn't find it very convincing.

-Jester

Afterthought: Here it is!