This chapter attunes the reader to the sample character of sound and music for experiencing and understanding temporal structures. Music and even simple sounds such as clicks and noisebursts serve as toy models for investigating basic temporal patterns. I discuss examples (available via a playlist) that make time structures audible. More specifically, auditory phenomena such as Shepard tones and sound streams echo the close relationship between repetition, variation, and the constitution of perceptual qualities and ‘meanings’, understood in a very broad sense. In music, basic temporal orderings become themselves thematic. Moreover, I emphasise the non-propositional nature of music and especially of hearing. Thus, investigating the experience of ‘time’ via sounds is arguably less culturally laden than are various other attempts.