Listeners verify perception by reproducing sounds, not narrating them

Evidence

The only way to check perceptions is to devise routines by which listeners can reproduce exactly what they hear. … As part of the ear cleaning program, I devised many exercises of this sort; for instance, imitate with your voice the sound of a shovel digging into sand, then into gravel, then clay, then snow. — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 505

Categorization

• SEED: Directly useful for the reader’s own field recording practice: concrete ear-cleaning exercises that could become a recording/listening routine.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 505
• XREF: connects to: Sound descriptions are trustworthy only when the writer heard them directly — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 30; Linguistic thoughts can be heard as sounds rather than meanings — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 221; The tape recorder enables reclaiming lost aural discrimination — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 508 (+1 more)