Noise as a Constructive Element in Music

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 Atavachron wrote:

Yet the very distinction between music & noise indicates the difference between the two.   The inclusion of noise into music does not negate the nature of noise, and that breach must exist in order to realize music itself as a singular construct.

This is so if you construct music and noise as opposites (as the opening sentence of the book description does). But you could also construct concepts in such a way that the opposite of music is non-music (not identical to noise), and that noise can occur on both the music and non-music side. In that way distinction from noise is not essential for constructing music as a concept. 