As the year continues, many of these posts will be philosophical in nature. Some will be in contradiction to previous postings. These are not intended as truths or assertions, they’re merely thoughts…ideas. Think of this as stream of consciousness over a wide span…
No sound is perceived at its moment of inception. Sound takes time to reach our ears. By the time we perceive it, the physical event that spawned it may already be over. Even with those sounds that happen right in front of us, we’re still perceiving a previous event. The brain has latency…neural signals travel at 1 meter per second according to this article. So no matter what we do, we’re never hearing anything other than echoes of the past.
Another way to approach this is to think of the act of recording to be the act of sending sounds into the FUTURE for further consumption. :)