ABSTRACT

If we bring our attention to our inner soundscapes while we make our way through our days, we may notice that, as we listen to external sounds, we also hear those same sounds sonified internally. We (re)call animal sounds, tree sounds, object, and machine sounds, sonically simulating them within ourselves. These murmured memories animate a sensibility of bee or cat, wind or branches, a book’s pages or a computer’s fan. And for a brief moment we experience a palpitation from that animal–plant–thing, interoceptive resonances excited by qualities of sound across time: a sensation of feathers rustling, an account of whistled flow or the scrape of metal.