Hey Abe that's a cool analogy....I agree,sound is there to be interpreted,reinterpreted and in the process reinvented I guess...in 75 I was at the Louvre standing in front of the Mona Lisa,or I should say trying to stand in front of it,at least 50 Japanese tourists had the same idea,and even then there was a five metre exclusion zone in the form of a rope barrier and gaurd...however forty feet to the left was this most exquisitely small six inch painting also by DaVinci with no one around it..I think I spent over an hour looking at it from a distance of half a foot,just drinking in it's genius..I could see the stokes of his paint brush,which was either a single or double haired brush!...At the end of the day paintings are what they are,things of canvas and inspiration that are designed to hang on walls..I have no problems with people reinterpreting the images digitally but as you say the process doesn't translate as well as audio media does...maybe it's because you can't see sound and the mystery of it can be recreated.