"Music is how feelings sound." (anonymous)
Iannis Xenakis' Orient-Occident (1960) is not really a hard piece to experience. It's really visceral. This is not the sort of music that has a melody -- and perhaps to many, many [most] people it is on the fringes or beyond of music.
I think on the contrary that it is music (duh), and that it's mainstream music. If we reflect for a moment on the anonymous quote above we should recognize that there are many, many feelings, and that they cannot all be expressed by tonal harmonies as organized by 19th century composers, or by bop lines or wonderful J-pop melodies. In fact every time music 'expands' we will be ever closer to expressing the full range of human emotions.
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