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# Hearing Places
- URL: https://seeingbeyond.tech/hearing-places/
- Published: 2026-09-01T19:50:49.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-01T19:50:49.000Z
- Description: To take in the sounds of a place is more than simply listening to a collection of disparate noises. It is to allow the song or being there to enter into our own selves, to adopt its rhythms and movements.
- Author: Diane T Adams
- Tags: #Fieldwork & Etheric Perception, Fieldwork & Etheric Perception

Does the land people live on influence who they are, what they like and dislike, what is important and what is not? It’s complicated, but there is an undercurrent of being that flows from a landscape—its weather, geology, climate, and the life forms that do well there—that directly influences human beings. This may be seen most clearly in the music that comes from different parts of the world.

There are sounds that belong to the hills, for example, and those sounds are repeated and formed into music that contains them. Shallow water flowing quickly down rocky creek beds makes a bright, tinkling sound that is musical in itself. “Hillbillies” in the U.S. incorporate those sounds into bluegrass music, which captures the sounds of the hills themselves and writes them into songs.

This is not limited to the Appalachian Mountains, however. I think you can hear the sounds of water moving through rocky, hilly land in music from India, Africa, South America, and on and on. Wherever there are people who live in hilly land, the sound of tinkling water has become not only an outer phenomenon, but something people have taken into themselves.

The sounds that are part of a landscape, then, seem to form the people who were born and grew up in that environment. They actually become a part of the soul—a formative force that creates in its inhabitants a responsive chord, a desire to replay and build creatively upon those sounds. Sound itself, however, is not simply vibrations in the air. Sounds have a spiritual form. They are beings that merge with and actually transform people’s tastes.

To take in the sounds of a place is more than simply listening to a collection of disparate noises. It is to allow the song or being there to enter into our own selves, to adopt its rhythms and movements. This is true not only for the sounds of a place, but for everything that enters our sense world from that place.

Truly experiencing and understanding an area of the world means letting its water, air, and soil speak to our own being. We can literally take these elements into ourselves and transform them into a part of our own being that can hear a place and also speak directly back to it.