What is the purpose of music? The question applies to both listeners and creators. What do you come to music for, what’s the goal of settling in to listen or to make music? No doubt it’s not for one reason alone; there’s almost never only one reason for anything we do or think in life. That’s partly the basis for the tremendous variety of musical genres, instruments, venues and performers we have available to us in the sprawling firmament that music has become since early humans started to explore and appreciate sound for sound’s sake, rather than as simply an…