According to Sting, silence is perfection. A bit of an odd statement out of context from a professional rock musician, but if you think about it, he's right. In an interview for his 2006 classical ...

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Silence might not be deafening, but it's something that literally can be heard, concludes a team of philosophers and psychologists who used auditory illusions to reveal how moments of silence distort ...

Renowned Scottish composer and conductor Sir James MacMillan stated that, in the modern world, “Silence is almost extinct.” Echoing Cardinal Robert Sarah’s warning that Western materialistic culture ...