I was dissociating on the way to work (as you do) while listening to the radio and I suddenly started thinking like, what made music scales have the connotations they do? Why does our brain associate the harmony of the C Major scale with happy joy stuff, and why does the phyrgian scale feel so scary and looming.
Like, I get emotional and sensual connotaions with other senses because they tend tobe easily associated at a young age. Red inflammed skin, orange fire, red hot metal, cold purple skin, ice filtering blue light through, the waters reflection of a blue sky. You can easily see where yound minds (or if you believe in the original definition of meme, ancestral minds) would associate "warm and cool" colors
But why would a connection be made that a certain frequency means happy, and another means scary? Was there some danger that screamed in E minor in the past? Why on earth was "The devils interval" so scary that the church had a say on it?? On that note, why does dissonance sound "bad"? I just dont get these connections and its so cool to me....