Bernard Chasan on defining music:

>What can your definition exclude? I just finished a Concerto for stamped
>foot and finger-nail scraped along blackboard.  It certainly is a sound
>effect and it certainly evokes rather strong feelings.

And Steve Schwartz asks the musucal question,

>Why isn't it music?

Well, I hope that there is no reason - a second career has opened for me,
and I will quit my day job tomorrow.

Bernard Chasan (whose Sonata for Obnoxious Automobile Burglar Alarm is
coming to a street in YOUR neighborhood.)