Silence is part of music. Is a blank sheet a painting, or blank pages a literary work? No... I'm sure some people out there would argue it is, they might be insane. It's about breaks from sound, not absense of sound.
As for background noise, it's random and non-organised. Someone randomly doing anything that makes sound can't be music, however it can be experimentation to eventually make music. People might describe any music as noise, but some just use the music they are used to as a basis for it.
If music can be described loosely as a language(and I believe it can, but making sure that loosely is underlined) then no one was ever able to communicate by randomly hitting things or not doing anything at all.
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