Music is about exploring the structure. Its got formal properties which will feel like its meaning rather than finding meaning.
Hearing gives us a sense of where to look in the surrounding environment. So in VR or a Computer game the sound of footsteps behind your view will lead you to want to turn around and see whats happening. It also gives us an intuitive feeling of the environment such as how big a room is by subtle echoes of your movement
Paralinguistic codes. Once you have the semantic of the message understood, when its repeated you’ll instinctlly lisen to the melodic aspects of it. This is one thing that I have never thought of. This type of thing is hear quite a lot Techno music which has single or triple word lines which are repeated over and over. While there is a beat there, the vocal would at as a second