The phrase "abandon sound" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express the idea of giving up on or disregarding sound, but without context, it is ambiguous.
Example: "In the chaos of the storm, we had to abandon sound judgment and act quickly."
Alternatives: "forsake sound" or "discard sound".
The call to abandon ship sounded just before 11 p.m.
DJ Toomp picked up where Dr Dre left off with G-funk for TI, though the producers who came after him mostly abandoned analog sounds.
Long on ghostly voices and skeletal arrangements, the music made by Molly Erin Sarle, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig and Amelia Randall Meath on their Made The Harbor album – recorded in an abandoned factory – sounds like a cousin to that made in Bon Iver's snowbound bolt hole.
Given the band's predilection for reinventing or abandoning rock sounds and structures in the studio, hearing Radiohead adapt its recordings to the stage opens its music even further.
In Igbo land, shrines have been destroyed, and converts abandon traditional names that sound as though they might have "pagan" links in favour of biblical names.
At Shoreham, I witnessed firsthand how political considerations and public opposition by a vocal minority led to the decision to abandon an otherwise technically sound and safe source of electrical power.
("But men built those companies! Why should we allow women to work when there are qualified, unemployed men? Why should a man pay taxes for a woman's unemployment insurance? Will female employees assimilate and act just like men as we all wish? And what harm will be wrought in the homes they abandon?") Now these arguments sound worse than ridiculous.
Urban Texas is abandoning the "y" sound after "n," "d" and "t," exchanging dipthongs for monophthongs.
In "Astral Weeks," Morrison abandoned the amplified sound of his earlier work in favor of acoustic instruments.
They may be posturing or taking an opening bargaining position they expect to abandon, but they do not sound that way.
