apparent that
all sounds have beauty that simply needs to be uncovered
regardless of their source. This art is also known as acousmatic music
(or a
sound removed from its source).
I don't buy that. Factories and machinery have vibrations created and
enforced by hundreds of forces working at different rates and in
different directions, caused by objects that were assembled with very
little regard for the sound they made. A song bird actually hears
what it is doing, and makes patterns based on the sound.
I invite you to please read then more on the topic of acousmatic music.
FWIW, what exactly constitutes a pattern? If there is a rhythmic vibration
of an industrial piece of machinery, how is that different (from a
"definition" standpoint) from a rhythmic drumming? I think you are mixing up
pattern with cognition. But even if we consider cognition as a point of
contention, the machinery has a purpose and a role and as such its
manifestation is not meaningless at all.
Best wishes,
Ico