“There is…in sound-and in consciousness understood as hearing- a shattering of the always complete world of vision and art. Sound is all repercussion, outburst, scandal. While in vision a form espouses a content and soothes it, sound is like the sensible quality overflowing its limits, the incapacity of form to hold its content – a true rent in the fabric of the world – that by which the world that is here prolongs a dimension inconvertible into vision”

                                        Emmanuel Levinas, in “Hors Sujet”