I don't think that "We as a culture" knows much about sound.
The only common measurement for legal or social reasons is Loud and Not loud.
Most people know inside them that there are Good and Bad sounds but most of them can't put their words into a form to describe the intricacies or specific traits that define Good, Bad, Soft, Loud.
There is much more to sound than meets the ear... and much to discuss. It probably has something to do with Global Warming but when will sound have it's own Global International Sound Symposium and front page news coverage?

Shadoan, the sphere I see as the archetype and every other shape and contexural transformation. The crop circle for example, registers the cross section of the spheres unique 'sound' as a 2D glyph, a holistic expression while the shape of the human body is based on interlocking tetrahedron shaped energy fields. The corresponding geometry is more complex depending on the complexity of the corresponding physical manifestation and visa versa.

I see humans as less than spherical metaphorically speaking but we are indeed waking up through which we actually are beginning to change at the cellular level. The body is the result and not the course of harmonic resonance and the ego is substantially in the way of getting beyond this ego-centric belief. Most of our beliefs must be dropped at this time to, in the words of the musician Seal, "...get to where we've come from."

So many feel that they would lose themselves if they do not hold onto their traditions and beliefs, but the new paradigm is telling us that we exist in this manner because of our mental orientation without which another reality, with it's accompanying values and beliefs, will necessarily follow. This begs the question "Where are we?" which only sound models can begin to answer. We are not our body, we are not our brain and we are not our emotion so where the heck are we?

I am intrigued if we are expanding or rather entering into a neutral space at this time. Why? The clouds are beginning to lift and so many people are having revelations about what indeed we are experiencing and have been experiencing in the past. There are certainly planetary and astrological influences but I also think there are groups of people whose awareness and knowledge includes the large scale measures and have used this for political gain for about the last 5000-5500 years before which it seems the Earth was having a different experience altogether. Traditionalists say "Bah humbug," while seekers say "Bring it On!"

Sound healing modalities are reporting miraculous results including what can be described no other way than shapeshifting. At the cellular level, pleomorphism is commonplace so it's easy to imagine that we are changing on a larger scale in response to the cellular upgrade going on at this time. Check out colloidal silver and it's effects. Note that the FDA will not allow it to be described as healing anything though they do allow it to be sold.