[Malte Müller]

There is definitely a “learned” component when it comes to listening to music,

Certainly. You only need to look at the example of the tritone or “devil interval” which was considered “forbidden” and dissonant for a long time.

Again, classic original Indian or Asia music does not always sound pleasant to European ears

And perhaps that “mystery” is something that can never be fully and truly be “solved”, because what and if music affects us is at least partly highly personal.

That would be good. Because already now the mathematics of music make it easy for AI to “calculate”. There needs to be a little Human mystery and extra within… It’s interesting that “hit songs” are investigated and there are rules that work but still there is no real formula that totally reliably works.