# Sound and Image **Abstract:** We hear sounds, and their sources, and their audible qualities. Sounds and their sources are essentially dynamic entities, not wholly present at any given moment, but unfolding through their temporal interval. Sounds and their sources, essentially dynamic entities, are the bearers or susbtrata of audible qualities. Audible qualities are qualities essentially sustained by activity. The only bearers of audible qualities present in auditory experience are essentially dynamic entities. Bodies are not, in this sense, essentially dynamic entities and so are not present in our auditory experience. Though absent in auditory experience, we may, nonetheless, attend to bodies in audition, when an audible sound-generating event in which they participate presents a dynamic aural image of them. Suppose that the bearers of audible qualities, such as pitch and timbre, are essentially dynamic entities such as events or processes, not wholly present at any moment, but unfolding through time. If we suppose further that only audible qualities and their bearers are present in auditory experience then a puzzle arises. For we seem to be able to attend to bodies in audition. We can listen to an animal’s approach, say. But bodies are not essentially dynamic entities, nor do they inhere in such. But only audible qualities and their bearers are present in auditory experience. Which means that bodies, being neither, are absent. But if bodies are absent in auditory experience how may we attend to them in **Authors:** [[Mark Kalderon]]