 Scruton (2009a, 2009b; see also his 1997) proposes a non-physicalist account of sounds. He is impressed by the fact that when we hear sounds as music we (can) hear them as events detached from their physical causes. He then suggests that sounds are “pure events”, things that happen but which don’t happen to anything, and that they are “secondary objects”, entities whose nature is bound up with the way we perceive them.