Different options concerning the relationship between sound and sound sources and how we perceive them have been proposed. According to Matthen (2010) both sounds (and sound composites like melodies, harmonies or sequences of phonemes) and sound sources can be heard directly. Leddington supports the Heideggerian view of hearing, for which we “hear sound sources directly, in hearing the sounds they make—not, à la Berkeley, merely in virtue of hearing those sounds” (2014: 340). Nudds, instead, sug