" “Music is really some kind of a magic,” says Tchernichovski. “It has no meaning. And yet, we like it, and we engage in it, and it gives meaning to our lives.” "<p>I think of that "magic" in music as more of a "protolanguage". It's implicitly spoken, non-symbolic and because we experience very similar realities, it's relatively universal.<p>Outside from noise the natural sound patterns that surround us are governed by rules (ex: Dynamics of physical interactions[0], linguistic structure[1], and behavioral rules).
If instead of sampling the sounds themselves, you sample the rules that generate the patterns, and you highlight the causality relationships.<p>Perhaps, if in addition to this you associated linguistic and behavioral dynamics to the internal (emotional) states of agents, you'd be able to explain (and make use of)the universality and suggestiveness of a good chunk of musical patterns.<p>[0] Causal Discovery in Physical Systems from Videos <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00631" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00631</a>
[1] Parallels in the sequential organization of birdsong and human speech <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11605-y" rel="nofollow">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11605-y</a>