Sounds and Events1 This chapter argues that sounds are best
conceived not as pressure waves that travel through a medium,
nor as physical properties of the objects ordinarily thought to
be the sources of sounds, but rather as events of a certain
kind. Sounds are particular events in which a surrounding medium
is disturbed or set into wavelike motion by the activities of a
body or interacting bodies. This Event View of sounds provides a
unified perceptual account of several pervasive sound phenomena,
including transmission through barriers, constructive and
destructive interference, and echoes. Oxford Scholarship Online
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