The phrase "a pattern of sounds" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing music, language, or any auditory sequence that follows a specific arrangement.
Example: "The composer created a pattern of sounds that evoked a sense of nostalgia in the audience."
Alternatives: "a sequence of sounds" or "a series of sounds".
A recording is a pattern of sound waves embedded in a medium.
He is wondrously nimble at tracking a pattern of sound through a text, though the process rapidly become repetitive and over-technical: "There are three ih sounds in the next stanza, two in the next stanza, along with two i sounds.
Other studies show distinctive neural responses from similar regions when there is an unexpected break in a repetitive pattern of sounds, or in a chord progression.
In 1967 Dr. Payne and Scott McVay, who are appearing at a symposium as part of the festival, discovered that humpback whales produced a repeated pattern of sounds that could be described as a song, a discovery that popularized the plight of whales and put the spotlight on commercial whaling.
So, what exists as an audible pattern of sounds is represented visually, that is, the mode of existence of the thing represented is radically different from the mode of its representation.
"Spins, cramp rolls, turns and crossover steps were woven into an intricate pattern of sound and movement, as the brothers spun out back-sliding rhythms that slipped smoothly from place to place on the stage," Constance Valis Hill wrote in her "Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers," published this year.
For instance, a dolphin that swims with a female trainer before and after she becomes pregnant "might well be able to detect a difference in her echo profile," or the pattern of sounds returned by echolocation, Nicolson said.
Additional converging evidence for the adaptive looming bias hypothesis comes from comparative work on rhesus monkeys who show a pattern of response to looming versus receding sounds that mirrors that found in humans (Ghazanfar, Neuhoff, & Logothetis, 2002; Maier, Chandrasekaran, & Ghazanfar, 2008; Maier & Ghazanfar, 2007; Maier, Neuhoff, Logothetis, & Ghazanfar, 2004).
Because it's a singles format and people listen to things on their iPods as singles, I think we've fallen into a pattern of every artist making their songs sound as loud as the next that might appear on your playlist.
