The philosopher Don Ihde wrote in Listening and Voice (1976) that 119: There is an imaginative mode to hearing 122: remembering sound is an imaginative act that implies inner experience - imaginative acts implicate the self
Similarly Mark Grimshaw and Tom Garner write in Sonic Virtuality (2014) that sound waves do not produce sound; rather, sound is imagined and we offload it into our environments
"Imagined sound is sound" (pg. 4)