Ian Crisp writes (among much else considerably thought provoking):

>If we allow that random, unorganised sounds can constitute music, then
>...  Music would equal sound, all sound would be music.

Remember back in High School Geometry, when we learned all that useful
stuff like, "a square can never be a rectangle, but a rectangle can
sometimes be a square?"

Well, how 'bout this?  Random sound can never be music, but music can
sometimes be random sound.

John Smyth