However, the stakes of this interaction are most powerfully in play when the information stands to effect a radical change of our awareness of what we are hearing in the first place, and this is most true of music in which traditional instrumental voices and sounds are largely absent. Lacking an initial comfort with what we are hearing , the ability of information to provide interpretive toe holds for a traverse across "difficult listening" increase in direct relation to the effacement of gestural origins for the sounds themselves.