# Sounds fully simplified **Opening (not a real abstract):** What is the relationship between sounds and their sources? How we answer depends, in part, on what we think sounds are. On a distal-event view, which treats sounds as events located at their sources, the question becomes: what is the relationship between the sound event and its (co-located) event source?1 Different versions of the view yield different answers. According to O’Callaghan (2011), sounds are events – disturbings of media – that are proper parts of their event sources. When the ball collides with the wall, this disturbs the surrounding medium; this disturbing event is the sound, and it is a proper part of the collision. Call this the Proper Parthood View, or simply Parthood. However, in ‘The Ockhamization of the event sources of sound’, Casati et al. (2013) argue that applying Occam’s razor to Parthood **Authors:** [[Leddington]]