This reminds me of John Cage and other experimental musicians.

Anybody ever "heard" 4:33 by John Cage? If you haven't, it's basically him sitting at the piano for 4 minutes and 33 seconds doing nothing. It's a whole thing about listening to the world around you...that everything in the world is musical. From the coughing of somebody in the audience to the whizzing of cars outside.

I get the idea, but I think it's a little too experimental for me. I do like some of his other compositions, though, such as when he put nails between the piano wire.