Sonic philosophy

Both maintained that music and sound directly figure the world as it is in itself and that they serve as the primary forces and movements behind all natural change, tension, creation, and destruction.

[3] These thinkers' positions underscored the philosophical importance of sound as they articulate the presentation of an ontology that unsettles the ordinary conception of things.

[7] For thinkers such as John Cage and Max Neuhaus, sound and music are thought of as anonymous flux that is beyond the human contributions to it.

[6] According to Manuel De Landa, this particular notion of sound as a flux is critical in the conceptualization of all of nature and culture as a collection of flows that are captured and released through different isomorphic processes.

He stated: If we proceed from sound, we will be less inclined to think in terms of representation and signification, and to draw distinctions between culture and nature, human and nonhuman, mind and matter, the symbolic and the real, the textual and the physical, the meaningful and the meaningless.

In his work called Sonic Somatic: Performances of the Unsound Body, he also explored how sound shaped and disrupted the way art shifted from subject to object through to the abject.