O'Callaghan 2007
Notes on OCallaghan (2007) Sounds.pdf.
This work puts forth the idea that sounds are events where a vibrating body interacts with a medium. This is in contrast to conceptions which state that sounds are qualities or groups of waves, and justifies our perception that sounds are located at their sources as not just an illusion.
These notes were all made while the original sonic proposal ("sounds exist in the interactions between vibrational fields and sonic ontologies") was still under focus, and as such, will make reference to it fairly frequently.
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Sonic realism as given here seems to counter the research proposition—can it be rephrased and incorporated? can it be refuted?
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{"created":"2022-03-16T22:35:41.078Z","text":"how might an account of *vibrations* (possibly per [[Eidsheim 2015]]) differ from an account of *waves*?","updated":"2022-03-16T22:35:41.078Z","document":{"title":"Unknown Title","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:329dc8b4f04cbbbb8184980a860eb7e6"},{"href":"vault:/PDFs/OCallaghan (2007) Sounds.pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"329dc8b4f04cbbbb8184980a860eb7e6"},"uri":"vault:/PDFs/OCallaghan (2007) Sounds.pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/PDFs/OCallaghan (2007) Sounds.pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":33619,"end":33845},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"the science-inspired modelof sounds as waves, like the traditional philosophical model of sounds as properties, qualities, or attributes, has important shortcomings that make it unsuitable as a philosophical account of sounds.","prefix":"e will see in the next chapter, ","suffix":"It is a strength of the wave vie"}]}]}%%
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how might an account of vibrations (possibly per Eidsheim 2015) differ from an account of waves?
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Objection: The possibility of perceiving a sound propagates with apparent and finite speed from its source.
Possible resolution: so does light, but we don't say that "seeings" travel
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Vibrational fields might solve this, weirdly? The sound is the thing that exists where the vibrational field hits the framework—but then the sound isn't at its source.
VIBRATIONAL EVENTS.
Does Dodd's sonicism require a non-wave sound view??
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{"created":"2022-03-16T22:42:35.759Z","text":"reconciliation by sound events as portions of vib. events??","updated":"2022-03-16T22:42:35.759Z","document":{"title":"Unknown Title","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:329dc8b4f04cbbbb8184980a860eb7e6"},{"href":"vault:/PDFs/OCallaghan (2007) Sounds.pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"329dc8b4f04cbbbb8184980a860eb7e6"},"uri":"vault:/PDFs/OCallaghan (2007) Sounds.pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/PDFs/OCallaghan (2007) Sounds.pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":56054,"end":56191},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"since sounds do not travel through the medium but remain stationary relative to their sources, the sound does not travel as do the waves.","prefix":"ions and rarefactions. However, ","suffix":" Since sound waves that reach th"}]}]}%%
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reconciliation by sound events as portions of vib. events??
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{"created":"2022-03-16T22:43:59.893Z","text":"\"mild vocal chord damage\" !!! voice!","updated":"2022-03-16T22:43:59.893Z","document":{"title":"Unknown Title","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:329dc8b4f04cbbbb8184980a860eb7e6"},{"href":"vault:/PDFs/OCallaghan (2007) Sounds.pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"329dc8b4f04cbbbb8184980a860eb7e6"},"uri":"vault:/PDFs/OCallaghan (2007) Sounds.pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/PDFs/OCallaghan (2007) Sounds.pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":64381,"end":64504},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"The timbre of a sound is constant across changes to frequency, intensity, attack, decay, and even mild vocal chord damage. ","prefix":" and even mild plastic surgery. ","suffix":"This suggests that the timbre qu"}]}]}%%
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"mild vocal chord damage" !!! voice!
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at this point (thinking with Eidsheim 2019) I'm starting to wonder what makes voice so special. is the voice different from the sound of the voice?
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