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" “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.” "

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.

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.

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.

[0] Causal Discovery in Physical Systems from Videos https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00631 [1] Parallels in the sequential organization of birdsong and human speech https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11605-y