Forum 1 - Week 3 - Sound Vs Music

This week our other teacher David Harris discussed the topic "There is no noise or sound that isnt music."
It turned out to be a lot different from Stephen's talk last week, as, not only did David hardly speak throughout the lesson, the whole class was involved in the topic.
We were each given either a page of music, beats, voice volumes/pitches/ or a page of words, then sent to our instrument/seat, where we waited for instructions. The pages of music/beats/writing each had certain times written above each note/beat/phrase and the instructions given were to play the notes in the bar etc for however long you wished, just as long as they were played in the time given above. Another interesting point about this piece, was that it was 45 minutes long.
The point of this task was to try and help us get a better understanding/opinion of what the difference between music and sound was, or whether all noise/sound could be music.
Once the timer had been set and the music started playing, i realised i had never heard anything like this before. It was almost music, but at the same time it was almost horrible to listen to, as it had no actual timing, harmony or melody.
When i first heard the saying "There is no noise or sound that isn't music", I instantly believed that the answer was simple; that this saying simply wasn't true. How could a car horn, a door closing, a piece of toast popping out of the toaster, a rustle of a tree, be music? Heard individually, i still believe that not every sound is music, but i do now believe that appropriate sounds incorporated together can be turned into a certain type of music, even if it does sound quite odd.
Although the song went for quite a long time, and everyone was quite bored of it by about 15 minutes, it gave me time to really think about this saying. I believe it has changed my opinion, to an extent, something of which i was quite certain wouldn't happen at the beginning of the year.