This chapter introduces the main theme of the book: the relationship between hearing and music as guides to an understanding of time. I start by emphasising that time does not exist as an independent entity but is rather inherent in events and experiences, allowing for an ordering relation of earlier-later. The concepts of event and experience, which form the starting point for the whole investigation, derive from the pragmatist tradition, especially Dewey, and from the process philosophy of Whitehead. Moreover, I explain how philosophy, as an endeavour to coordinate experiences, facilitates a ‘tactful’ understanding and handling of (or rather in) time. This then leads to the role music and auditory perception can play in making philosophical findings tangible. Music and hearing, more than any other type of art or type of perception, can serve as exemplary means to access the processual character of reality; that is, its temporal structures as based on the repetition, change, and variation within and between events.