Silence: Dispatches from the quietest place on Earth

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Dallas Taylor

Music, Design, Arts, Music Commentary

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Our world is filled with sound. It exists in even the quietest corners of the planet. But what happens when all that sound is taken away? What is silence? There are very few places on Earth where silence actually exists, but in this episode, Dallas experiences it for himself thanks to a special room called an anechoic chamber. How do our brains process the complete nothingness of silence? Find out as Dallas locks himself alone inside the chamber. Featuring David Alvord and Nick Breen from the Georgia Tech Research Institute. 20k is produced out of the studios of Defacto Sound and hosted by Dallas Taylor. Follow Dallas on Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn. Watch our video shorts on YouTube, and join the discussion on Reddit and Facebook. Become a monthly contributor at 20k.org/donate. Episode transcript, music, and credits can be found here: https://www.20k.org/episodes/silence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.4	Okay, so I'm rolling and you're going to shut the doors and leave me in here for a little while.
0:35.9	That's right. You may want to point your mic over here because they are heavy-duty reinforced doors. Have fun. Have fun.
0:48.1	You're listening to 20,000 Hertz. I'm Dallas Taylor.
0:54.7	Okay, so now I'm inside this thing by myself.
0:57.5	Oh, and they shut off the lights.
0:59.6	Excellent.
1:00.6	You just heard me being locked into an anechoic chamber.
1:04.3	It's a room designed to completely isolate sound.
1:07.6	I went in to answer a seemingly simple question.
1:12.2	What is silence?
1:18.3	When you think of silence, maybe you picture getting away from the city and going deep into nature. The constant noise of the city fades away, replaced only by birdsong and the gentle
1:24.6	rush of wind through leaves. It's refreshing and calm, but it's not
1:31.4	silence. Silence is the complete and total lack of sound, and to many who've experienced it,
1:41.2	silence isn't relaxing or calm. It's terrifying. Some say it can even drive you crazy.
1:48.7	Hey, there we go. Hey, I'm Dallas. I'm Nick, Nick. Sorry about just ignore all this stuff.
1:53.7	Oh, don't go outside. Yeah. We have a large anechoic chamber. It's 24 feet tall or so and maybe another 20 or so foot square. So it's a really
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