Yeah, except no; the ear works by having cillia that each resonate at different frequencies, differentiated into a log-periodic type response. It is mostly a "frequency domain" mechanism though in the real world the time component is obviously necessary to manifest frequency. If we want to have a debate about how best to call it, the closest term I might reach for from the quite often mislabeled vernacular of the music/production/audio world would be "grains" / granular synthesis.
WRT the waveform tool in DAWs you should be aware that it doesnt normally work like you may assume it does. If you start dragging points around in there you typically are not actually doing raw edits to the time domain samples but having your edits applied through a filter that tries to minimize ringing and noise. That is to say the DAW will typically not just let you move a sample to any value you wish. In this case the tool is bending to its use as an audio editor and not defaulting to behavior that would otherwise just introduce clicks and pops every time it was used.
I stand by my argument that the author's terminology appears ignorant in an area where it ought to be very deliberately specific. I question the applicability and relevance of the work beginning at that point, even though the approach may have yielded a useful result.
WRT the waveform tool in DAWs you should be aware that it doesnt normally work like you may assume it does. If you start dragging points around in there you typically are not actually doing raw edits to the time domain samples but having your edits applied through a filter that tries to minimize ringing and noise. That is to say the DAW will typically not just let you move a sample to any value you wish. In this case the tool is bending to its use as an audio editor and not defaulting to behavior that would otherwise just introduce clicks and pops every time it was used.
I stand by my argument that the author's terminology appears ignorant in an area where it ought to be very deliberately specific. I question the applicability and relevance of the work beginning at that point, even though the approach may have yielded a useful result.