"... distraction does something to musical sounds. And what it does is to make them formless. But by this, I don't mean that musical sounds become shapeless per se, so much as distraction disturbs the perception of music's formal structure in a way that makes "form" irrelevant to the experience."

Thoughts on "music's form".

Excerpt from ELDRITCH PRIEST's BORING FORMLESS NONSENSE [Experimental Music and the Aesthetics of Failure]