2+2=5. La materia sonora

In this paper, I argue that we hear sounds as immediately linked to objects. We do not hear just disturbing events; we hear sounding objects. Anyway, observing Sardinian vocal practice, it emerges a real problematic issue for this approach and for ordinary intuition too (2+2=5). This issue gives us a real good matter for philosophy of sound, primarily because we find out that sounds stand in a relation of interpenetration, i.e., they are related to each other. In this peculiar sense, sounds are something that happens – objects-related events that encounter us – and, in this respect, they ask us to redefine what an object is