Abstract
This text raises some ideas to think about listening in past, using an archaeological but also a phenomenological approach. A sketch of temporary analysis of listening is made: listening in present reveals a Presence, and listening in past becomes a trace, memory, and perhaps, a possibility of inscription. This is vinculated within an archaeological reading of listening/knowing devices located at the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th century. Based on an “audition” of the engravings that record Talking Heads and mechanical sound statues, we raise questions about the time of listening and the footprint of its sculpture, in relation to the aural history.