ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on expanded phenomenology, one stubbornly grounded in the physical world, to understand the contrast and its implications. Of all the forms of human inquiry that covers most thoroughly that entity one can call "the world" is phenomenology. It discusses the three E's namely embedded, embodied, and enactive. The transit from environment to sense organ to brain is one of cascading constraints, each level shaping the meaning of the next. Cascading constraints collapse into hybrid entities; these entities are at the same time the contents of consciousness. Cascading constraints constitute a single subjective/objective world. Finally, one uniquely human intervention in the sonic environment is music. A coda to the paper harmonizes the trio of hearing, seeing, and music in the middle. As a result, the philosophy of music reconstrues musical representation as some combination of the abstract, the purely emotive, and/or inarticulate bodily movement. Thus, music creates something different in the landscape of sound.
