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Listening is Better Understood with: Minds, Milieux, Machines & Musics

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: This paper proposes a conceptual framework for understanding listening as a four-way interaction in-and-between minds, milieux, machines, and musics. Building on cognitive, ecological, computational, and cultural approaches to sound, we explore how each of these elements contributes uniquely to auditory experience and interpretation. Minds bring perceptual, cognitive, and emotional grounding; milieux provide ecological and sociocultural contexts; machines offer tools for sensing, modeling, and synthesis in sonic environments; and musics embody structured forms of human expression and shared aesthetic meanings. Through pairwise and three-way analyses, we identify the pitfalls of excluding any one component—leading to disembodiment, inefficiency, or cultural disconnection. We advocate for a transdisciplinary synthesis that situates listening within networks of perception, technology, and environment. Our goal is to recenter listening as a reflexive, situated, and multiscalar practice across disciplines.

Source: HAL AMU

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17502661

Authors: Thoret, Etienne, Lostanlen, Vincent

Language: English

Topic: Sound Studies and Aurality

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Agence Nationale de la Recherche

Awards: Multi-Resolution Neural Networks, ILCB: Institute of Language Communication and the Brain, Punk sound is not dead. Musicological, sonic and perceptual characterization of punk using qualitative and data-driven approaches

OpenAlex ID: W7103891260

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