Highly tactile. One way that my brain is weird is that I definitely don't experience music like most people do. It took me a long time to realize this. I guess it would fall under being a type of synesthesia? The neurons between sounds and tactile touch are crossed for me. When asked how to describe pain or other tactile experiences, I struggle with words like "stinging" versus "aching" etc. and instead, to me, it is that the pain is "high pitched" or "low pitched." A deep pressure massage is like a deep low bass. Scalding hot water is a high pitched ring. This causes me a lot of trouble at the doctor's office. I just don't know how to describe pain in ways they understand. I say stuff like "I have a high pitched feeling in my shoulders" or "there is a buzzing in my foot." What most people describe as "pins and needles" I eventually learned is the sensation that I describe as "white noise" or "static."
So when I listen to music, it goes in the other direction as well. The music I like is music that feels certain ways physically, in a tactile sense. I like certain musical textures and not others. I've never found it surprising that Deaf people still love music, although I think probably we enjoy different genres. High levels of distortion and screaming like you find in, say, heavy metal, is physically painful for me to experience. I can't tolerate it for more than a few seconds. It feels like having my skin cut with razor blades and then ground down with sandpaper. People sometimes put this music on without warning me insisting I'll enjoy it and I have to like, flee, or quickly stop it once I realize what it is. HIRS Collective and Space Camp are examples of bands people insist I'll love, because it's trans women singing about fuck capitalism etc. etc. but actually I cannot listen to it.
On the flip side, some musical textures, like the crackling and vocal chops you hear in Glitch and IDM music, feel really incredible. Like, outright pleasurable in the tactile sense. I've even sometimes gasped at how a song felt to listen to, like when you're touched somewhere particularly sensitive. Other musical textures might feel soft like petting a blanket, or might feel like a deep touch or massage. I frequently get chills from certain keys or key changes, or feel cold from certain instruments. But sometimes certain sounds can feel hot as well. Like a warm bath, or like it burns.
The result of all this is that my musical taste is a bit eclectic and weird. It took me a while to even figure out how to find music I enjoy because, for instance, "Punk" could mean a song that is painful to listen to or a song that feels fuzzy and damp like grass beneath bare feet on a sunny day. So I really like some punk songs, for that running on grass feeling, and just can't even tolerate other punk songs that feel like sandpaper or razors. "Electronic" could mean it feels like a sensual massage, or it could feel like stepping into the bath tub when the water is absolutely far too hot and it burns your feet; or like being crushed under something very heavy.
I've been getting good though at finding niche subgenre terms that tend to refer to sounds that are textures I like. In some ways it's about finding the slice of a genre that's "safe" and unlikely to feature the common elements of that genre that feel bad to me. Pop Punk features less heavy distortion than Punk. Lo-Fi Hip-Hop is less likely to feature certain kinds of snare drums than Hip-Hop. IDM is less likely to feature crushing levels of bass than EDM. In general I guess it means I tend to listen to the more mellow and tame versions of each genre but like, to me it's like someone choosing to eat less spicy food if they can't tolerate high levels of spice, or asking a massage therapist to use less pressure; or turning the AC down. It's just what my body is able to handle because of how sensitive my senses can be. Tho funnily enough I love very very spicy food, ask massage therapists to use the maximum amount of pressure, and am very tolerant of extreme cold. But I can't handle Iron Maiden or Clowncore.
