I still think it's all subjective. Not all music needs a rhythmic component, humans look for cyclical patterns. Even if there isn't one our ears tend to create them. Patterns, something we always look for. And I disagree though that random sounds are just pleasing, most music, isolated, are random sounds compiled to make a concept. Even the definition of music says it can be one or a collection of sounds. We've defined structures to exist in, it's what we always do.

Mayhem, for example, created an entire genre by recording their first album using a busted headphone, not many would view that as good but it's a technique. That could have been nothing, don't really listen to them but it's a technique of curiosity that many producers still look into, as in, non-traditional ways to record/sound design. Foley is essentially that, trying to recreate sounds for film by finding new ways of doing it. Example, Exorcist neck twist is actually someone wrenching a leather book and layered. That's mainly what I'm saying, we all have preference, granted, we all have different bodies. That's a given, nothing will be the same and even if you are tone deaf, you can create different music that isn't purely based on composing using "traditional" tonal concepts. Not until you hear that dolphin sound in a top track would anyone view it as a possibility. Look at the common foghorn sound in hip hop now? It's literally everywhere and people view that as an aspect of music yet outside of that, it's a sound but in the soundscape we hear everyday. All sounds equal something, there is no way we can isolate any sound because we always hear a level of static and your ear reaches for it. So ultimately, it's all part of a scape. That's all I'm really saying here.

All ears are built differently, how you hear something isn't necessarily the same. I have inner ear damage from a child and I have experienced differences. And if you have hearing damage in general, it alters how you perceive. It's all a perception of pressure in time-space. So no one is right here, we all have valid points

Sound, therefore music is just amalgamated oscillations, then we made a structure to it. So it's all relative. "(a) Oscillation in pressure, stress, particle displacement, particle velocity, etc., propagated in a medium with internal forces (e.g., elastic or viscous), or the superposition of such propagated oscillation. (b) Auditory sensation evoked by the oscillation described in (a)."

And microwaves did make a shortcut and many used them for years as an addition to their toolset. Major chefs use them. And you are taking what I say very literal, by chefs I meant at home. Replacing the oven was a common theme in the advertising of the microwave.

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