I undertook the experiments around the fan and the motor of my almost defunct refrigerator first, because of the ambivalence of the sounds emitted by them. These sounds, I feel, are ambivalent because they seem so commonplace to the point of being neglected, even though we are practically enveloped by them. We constantly hear these drums and roars and drones and whooshes, but only identify them when our attention is pointed towards them. And even then, this identification, as Christian Metz (1980) explains, is incomplete for us until we can identify the source of these sounds. When I played the very first recordings of the fan and the motor for my mother, she had a pensive and quizzical look, trying to think of what could have produced the sound. She guessed “train”, “car engine”, “chakki” when I asked her what these sounds were. This is when I realised that even before trying to reach THE point of incoherence/indiscernibility, I already had “incomplete” sounds that I was working with, since I was not thinking about the source of the sound, but its ubiquity.