Do something in an original & unusual way, something
unexpected - in a sonic or formal way.
either: [1] making sounds on an instrument in an unusual way
(bowing a cymbal while immersing it in water), or making sounds on
an "unusual instrument" (an Ebow on a toaster or playing cutlery)
or [2] constructing music in an unusual way (John Cage & the
I-Ching) or writing something that will have to be interpreted in
an unusual way (graphic notation or some extension, thereof).