“Audition provides us with information about the sorts of objects that populate the environment, about what those objects are doing, and about how they interact. Audition furnishes us with 360° awareness of a three-dimensional spatial field and directs the orientation of visual attention toward the sources of perceived sounds. When you listen to headphones, you voluntarily forgo that audition, substituting that audition for something else. But what?”

— Preface to "Here, Hearing: On A Sound Womb", Elodie Blakely 

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