“Owing to the combinations of sequences of sounds, there arose simultaneously in the presence of beings different sorts of impulses evoking various contradictory sensations, which in their turn gave rise to unusual experiencings and reflex movements not proper to them.”
The Method of Transmitting Knowledge in Ancient Babylon.
Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson
G.I. Gurdjieff
The Hall of Fragments
He treats sound as the engine rather than the echo. That's a familiar direction. Consciousness may be downstream of the song.