This is one of the oldest documents I have readily available—earlier writings are mostly on 5.25 inch floppy discs, if you can believe such antiquity; A major problem for archivists and other historians is how to access old formats. For most of the rest of us, we just have to let them go. This piece was originally a conference demonstration/presentation (in Vienna) wherein I lay out much of my own philosophy of audio and acoustics in contexts that are of interests to life in the big “picture” and their representations in recordings. For the demonstration, I had prepared a large set of examples, including but not limited to those referred to in the text. Naturally (by which I mean “narrationally stereotypically”), I had spent the entire night before departure at this enterprise. With a flight to catch early in the morning, I had no time to make a back up copy, and…you know the rest. As it all too often happens at such events, the conference staff lost my tape. But you move on to other things.