when does music stop being music?

[Thunderscreech]

making the type of music i've been making lately (see the song in my signature) and some of the bands I am into (Whitehouse, Godflesh, White Mice, Merzbow), I got to thinking about where music stops being music...and, well, i guess its a personal thing, but to me the limit has been blurred a lot to me recently.

Anyone else got an opinion on where music stops being music?

 

[onosson]

When it becomes business.

 

[Mike Dunbar]

When no one is listening.

 

[Spaldo]

it's largely subjective...like having an opinion on where tone comes from.