The soothing melodies of dildos and balloons

Judy Dunaway - Drone Improvisation on Bass Balloon

"Music is the true universal language which is everywhere understood; and so it is constantly spoken in all countries and throughout the centuries most eagerly and earnestly, and a significant and suggestive melody very soon finds its way round the globe. On the other hand, a melody that is poor and says nothing soon dies away and is forgotten, which shows that the contents of a melody are very easy to understand." (119)

Here is another counterexample that most people are familiar with:

A performance by William Marx of John Cage's 4'33''.