sound, n.Definitions

Sound is like water: it gets into things.

Sound is waves propagating through a fluid

Sound is something we cannot describe, but we cannot forget it either.

Sound is a sensory field that totally resists a holding action, resists stabilization.

Sound is denotative of distance and temporality in a way that sight is not. Rather than an immediate inner illumination that emanates outward in sight, hearing proceeds sequentially from the external to the internal. It is intimate without being immediate.

Sound is contrasted with vision in that sound's ephemeral invisibility obstructs critical engagement, while the apparent stability of the image invites criticism.

Sound is the sense most assaulted in the modern age — Our mechanical and sanitary age grants mercy to our sense of smell and compensates by assailing our sense of hearing.

A Sound is different from other sounds only to the extent that it is sped up or slowed down. All sound sounds alike; every bellow ends as a whistle; a distended whistling blasts like a bellow.