Earworms
Timothy Morton · Acoustic Ecology Review · 2023
This essay will argue that musical sounds are independent beings in their own right, just like worms. Indeed, it is going to use the example of the earworm to demonstrate this. In turn, the fact that the earworm is an independent entity in some sense has profound implications for how we listen to, compose and analyze music, and in particular on how to think what is called soundscape. And the fundamental detail here is that this new think- ing will be strongly ecological.