Hearing is the practice that we all doing every single moment. Unlike other senses, our ears can not be closed and we don’t have ears lid. Even we cover up our ears or even we have the headphones on which blocked most of the sound around us, we still can hearing thing or we will hear the high pitch drone. Therefore, hearing is our ability to receive vibration of the air and we may react to the sound that we heard. For example, when we walk across the road and we can hear the horn or the engine sounds of cars approaching us, and we may stop when we hearing it.
The difference between listening and hearing is that when we listen, we put more effort to analyse what we heard. We listen others conversation or listen to the music, and thought listen, we will think about the information that the sound contain. And for more sound art related area, we can trace and force on the sound that we want to listen because most of the time, there have more than one sound sources. Therefore, the difference between listening and hearing is that listening require more focus while hearing is just the default mode of how our ears receive sound.