 Contemporary philosophers of perception of the physicalist strand tend to align themselves on the wave theory (Nudds 2010b, 2018; Kalderon 2017; Meadows 2018). Perkins thus summarizes the view: “…the sound we hear is identical with the train of airwaves that stretches from the distant sounding object to our ear” (1983: 168). And indeed, the physicalist account of sounds seems to make a good claim to successful reduction of key auditory phenomena based on the identification of sounds with sound waves in a medium in which a sounding object (and possibly a hearer) is present.