We experience its vibrations as coming toward us. Hearing persons perceive themselves as surrounded, animated within a force-field of sound waves. In contrast to seeing, hearing is a more flowing experience between inner and outer. Acoustic energy naturally evokes both breadth and depth. Sound enters and then resounds onward, inward, and outward.
Sound is alive with flow, rhythm, layers of vibration.
And so is silence. Through careful and imaginative listening, the perceptual richness of the acoustic realm, and the myriad of ways it manifests, can become a more conscious experience, moving us along the way. Sound and reverberation call especially to those layers of experience that hover near consciousness. They take their meaning from the laws of vibration and associativeness. Indirectness, likenesses, hold sway in the night world.