ph is an abstracted flattened version of the view, just as the sound being emitted speakers is an abstracted and distorted version of that which is being recorded 1 K Goldsmith, `Bring Da Noise: A Brief Survey of Sound Art', in NewMusicBox, 2004, viewed on 20 March 2008 <http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=2413>. 1 B LaBelle, Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art, The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc, New York, London, 2006