Godel Escher Bach has a chapter riffing on the acoustics version of this idea: http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/jvt002/BrainMind/Readings/Prelude.pdf http://www

Godel Escher Bach has a chapter riffing on the acoustics version of this idea: http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/jvt002/BrainMind/Readings/Prelude.pdf http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/jvt002/BrainMind/Readings/P.... Though the discussion there is about recovering sound waves that are still propagating in the air, which seems orders of magnitude more difficult than recovering sound from impressions on solid objects (which already feels likely impossible in most interesting cases).