Mike42
Heard it all before...
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Sound = vibration. Nerves all over detect vibration.
But much perception is subconscious - and auditory stimuli create sensations we struggle to report with accuracy or specificity - most descriptors derive from other senses: particularly sight - hazy, veiled, coloured, muddy, brightly-lit, dark, inky - we talk vaguely in terms robbed from vision about the width, breadth and height of 'staging' and 'imaging'.
Or we draw from the sense of touch (warm, cold, heavy, wet, dry, airy, dense, velvety, grainy, punchy, silky, rough, visceral, soft, smooth, wooly, sharp, palpable, weighty) or even taste (rich, mellow, creamy, sweet, syrupy, unctuous).
We have relatively few words in the vocabulary specifically describing sound - evidently because we don't find it useful in our culture, partly because the experience is so evanescent and immaterial, but mainly because relatively little of our brain is wired for sound. It's a problem.
Trust me, I listen with my ears.