If Sound of God were to be somehow actually put to tape, it is likely it would be unpleasant possibly even dangerous (cf Ex 33:20, Deut 5:25 etc). Sound of Evil, however, likely sounds mellifluous and extremely pleasing to the ear. Evil, after all, must be appealing to attract ones to it. The reality of evil is not so attractive even to ones who claim to be evil. If Satan came up and said "come and never have a positive experience for the rest of eternity" nobody would be drawn to this. But if he plays a beauteous chord on his organ, this is like honey to the ears of us. Therefore, the pleasant sounds we have made are, at best, to be held suspiciously at arms' length but much of it is a destroying force that will end society by 2030 (timeline pending).
Sound of God, however, is the sound of creation and creation is not harmonious as we may imagine a well-ordered thing to be (even if that thing is, technically, under the order of The One Who Made It). A cluster of frequencies that ones might say "this is sounds bad", this can be a sign we are headed in the right direction but of course is no guarantee. The chord that David played that "Pleased the Lord" was possibly a cluster such as this tho because of shifting cultural expectations of "music" perhaps the sound was within traditional western musical limitations.
This cultural expectation is another wrinkle in the fabric, because what one finds "pleasing" in the Western European tradition may not even exist in, for one example, Carnatic tradition of Southern India. And we come trapped into "microtones" wherein the 12 notes and their accidents of Western Music are completely unable to express the difference between 2 sruti in Indian theory. Thus, a Western man may find certain sounds disharmonic whereas the man from Iran or India or China may find these sounds to be sweeter than all the sugar.
Is the cultural relativity incorporated into Sound of God? If we accept the universality of God, it seems necessary that SoG would have to be universally "unpleasant" to the human ear but to what extent that occurs is hard to determine. Whether even "music" is a concept that can be applied to SoG also is important and remains open to questioning. Perhaps a literal noise is the SoG without regard to pitch and rhythm. Is it even a sound as we understand sound to be?W
Also, if SoG were to become the norm, would this mean the sound shifts to a different disharmony? To what extent is this displeasure to be regarded? If a certain frequency is a sensitive point in the ear of one but not another, is this merely a quirk of biology or a notice of SoG that is somehow not universal or perhaps curated for an individual???
Further work will have to be carried out in this direction to approach an answer.
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