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Re: [microsound] stolen silence



just for the sake of your curiosity:
actually there is never "silence" during a phone-call. Researchers have
seen that if a person isn't hearing anything, he thinks that the call
has fallen down. So inside newer phones (e.g. mobile phones) there is a
noise generator that gives you the idea that the oder is in silence: as
said by cray, silence is not trasmitted but noises are generated for the
pleasure of the people phoning (in fact it is called "comfort noise").

best
e.g.


cray wrote:
> 
> You don't hear silences on the phone anymore. They've got this time-sharing thing on long-distance lines where you make a pause and they snip out that piece of time and use it to carry part of somebody else's conversation. Instead of a pause, where somebody's maybe breathing or sighing, you get this blank hole and you only start hearing again when someone says a word and even the beginning of the word is clipped off. Silences don't count -- you're paying for them, but they take them away from you
> CRAY
> "undo"  on bip-hop_ Enhanced video CD
> > "comment" 3"cd on fallt
> > "untitled i/o" track on Strewth (Synaesthesia) compilation
> > "seven satellite" track on Bip Hop 4 comp
> > "erros$" track on VibraGun compilation - out now
> > "          " track on Motion Compilation
> > Tennis Remix - Hard Drive Mishap56 - Bip Hop
> > 12time50 - Cray short soundsamples
> < "rooms" art installation with Marcus Struzina - Feb 2003
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/newroom/toptens/cray.shtml


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