• Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    When something like that happens, I automatically assume it’s on mute or frozen, so I can’t get those kinds of masterpiece moments. I wish I could trust art as much as you.

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      20 hours ago

      I don’t know if it’s still a thing in the digital age, but having even just a few seconds of dead air back in the analogue broadcast days could mean that “silence detectors” all over the country would start going off and radio engineers everywhere would think there was some kind of problem with their station. So there had to be talking, music, something at pretty much all times.

      If you wanted intentional silence you could play comfort noise in the background.

      • killingspark@feddit.org
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        19 hours ago

        Comfort noise really surprised me when I learned about it regarding phones. We register it as silence but we also register the line as active whereas we immediately notice complete silence. Brains are cool stuff