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wotnot
The bugler's call, the musical note(s) of sirens, the aesthetic chimes & gongs in newer vehicles...the song of 4 Merlins on a Lancaster bomber ... the singing of the aussie Magpie... the whistling of wind in the rigging....walking down to St Andrews when I lived in Sydney CBD to sit and listen to the pealing of the bells....(and a scary one)....the Windows sound (originally by Brian Eno =)
I can think of more, it largely depends on how one connotes 'music' and whether you view it as art or consider it a/the science of sound ~ I was taught piano when young, sang Alto in the school choir, and did 5 years of music theory at HS (as a 'spare' subject), and in those classes we were taught that most ppl only associate 'music' in the context of a (anthropomorphic, culturally based, 'domesticated') subset of the prime noun...sound. That... is surely reflected in this thread B) Insert 'personal taste' as well here.
The universe possibly gets roped in anyway, if you're into radio astronomy and consider the cacophony of the stars or the pulsing of a Quasar as being music to your ears...and you need include pink & white noise here. Although I can play piano, I hardly ever do because I just sound like another part-time piano player ; give me a keyboard and/or midi controller and a computer based DAW, and it/I sound like anything but that....given time. I listen to The Strangler's Black&White album, with the same interest I listen to Nils Frahm's All Melody album....and my favourite rendition of Stairway To Heaven, is that by Leonard Teale on Andrew Denton's 'The Money or the Gun' on late 80's teevee (also on YT 8)
The clangour of hammers at the foundry, or the blackie at work, the clicky-clack of train wheels on the tracks....instead of using my hands to play piano, I can use them to build an engine and the mechanical symphony I hear when it starts and runs, is music to my ears...
'Music' is an extremely subjective thing, and tends not to be globally aligned due to sound ethnography. The possible exception to that, may be African drum beats & rhythms, which tend to appeal to many ppl from many ethic backgrounds, and some posit this being a 'genetic memory' that heralds back to the beginnings of mankind. On top of this, we don't all heard sound in the same way....wrt topic, one might play the most 'beautiful' piece of music one has ever heard to someone else, and that someone else might wrinkle their face & cover their ears because it's the worst music they've ever heard. If I disrespect topic and example this effect in the domain of sound --- the sound of chalk/fingernails scraping on a blackboard, the sound of polystyrene foam rubbing and squeaking against itself/something --- to many ppl these sounds will (colloquially) 'curdle one's blood' ....and yet to others these same sounds don't effect them at all ; it's just another noise/sound to them (and said sound does have a frequency component, more than 1 and forms a complex note).
...I wonder if I can sample the musical chimes that come out of our washing machine, and turn that into a 'song'?...
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