is complete chaos too much?

through the semester i have discovered that chaos is my favorite way to express my improvisatory music. i think that this might be because of my preferred instrument. playing on a drum set is unlike any of the other instruments that i have played (or tried to play, as the case might be). i have found that chaos is extremely difficult to obtain and even more difficult to keep on a percussional instrument. the reason being, is that if you start doing one thing too much or in any sort of beat it becomes repetition and becomes orderly. the biggest difference with tonal instruments, is that you have the option of playing notes out of the key to create chaos. everything else is, or can be, relatively the same.

a question that i have been thinking of is 'when does chaos cease to be music?' this is very important to me, because this is an area of music that is already not widely accepted, and often times difficult to defend. my first thought is that chaos alone might not be music. it might be argued that if chaos could be thought of as music, then any collection of sound is also music. this means anything you hear at any random point can be considered music.
perhaps the key to this question lies in intent? if i, as a musician, intend to create a chaotic sound space then maybe it would be easier to defend, than if it were just to happen.
perhaps the key is a dichotomy between chaos and order. i think that if you put the two textures together the chaos will be much more purposeful. not only will it be more purposeful, but i also think that it would become much more effective when laid across a background of solid music (with tempo and key and all that other stuff that makes music palatable).