[dudeman13]

>It's really not terribly important to know "what frequency of two underlying beats sounds good."

And yet I get the feeling that if someone does investigates that (and adjacent topics) in depth with success there would be a bunch of interesting consequences to it.

Maybe, I have got no knowledge in the field - it just sound like something interesting, why the heck wouldn't we want to know it?

[scrozier]

Many people in music know the answer to that and related questions. Sometimes the answers prove interesting, as you say. What I'm saying is that I don't think questions like that are a useful/effective route to understanding music more broadly. They (questions like that) seem like they're interesting, because they appeal to us as programmers somehow (math-y), but they are largely on the fringe of the broad body of knowledge that makers of current popular music (say) operate with. You wouldn't expect a musician to come into programming saying, "so what's the equivalent of sonata allegro form in a typical computer program?" It would be applying the wrong paradigms/framework to the topic at hand.

[dudeman13]

>What I'm saying is that I don't think questions like that are a useful/effective route to understanding music more broadly.

Thanks, I misunderstood you.