is SOUND of silence a sound ?

Answer 1

Yes, when you hear it performed by Simon and Garfunkel...

Answer 2

In 1952, a composer named John Cage (1912-1992) composed a monumental piece of music called 4'33". It consisted of the pianist sitting at a piano for 4 minutes and 33 seconds and then getting up and leaving. Since Cage was a modern composer, this was unbelievable. The music was everything. The creak of the stage floor boards; the gentleman coughing in the fourth row; the click of a door as someone slips out the back because they're so disgusted by the fact that they paid $70 to see this; it was all music. You can never have true silence because the sound is always there. And the sound will always be music; the music of the world.

Answer 3

That depends on your definition of silence. What most people think of silence is simply the lack of audible noise. If that's the case then yes, you can record silence, amplify the volume, and hear the noise.

Now if you mean silence as the total lack of any sound then you're touching on metaphysics. Technically it is not a sound, but it is a unique lack of sound, which could be measured similarly and so you could argue it is a sound as it can generate a response from audio-sensory organs.

Answer 4

Ummmm....... A sound is a noise.But the sound of silence is nothing. But sometimes it has small noises in the background that you can't really hear.So i guess yes.The sound of silence is a sound because there are other sounds going around in a room that the human ear can't hear. But dogs and other animals can hear.So,The answer i believe is yes.

Answer 5

My perspective is that silence doesn't make a sound. Actually to be in an anechoic chamber which is truly virtually completely free of sound waves of any kind is an eerie experience.

Answer 6

Yes, a beautiful sound. The sound that comes out of your stereo when Simon and Garfunkel sing it, lol. LOVE THAT SONG. But if you were in a sound-proof room I think you would still hear sounds, like the sound you make when you breathe or move your feet. Things like that.

Answer 7

Outside a vacuum there is no silence, so one must assume that even in silence there is sound.

Answer 8

easy answer -- no.

more complex answer -- that depends on what your perception of silence is. Silence for me is when I can hear the clock tick.

Absolute silence drives me crazy. I get more screaming in my head telling me its too quiet.

Answer 9

I don't think that true silence actually exists. Everything that exists has its own sound, its own vibration.

Answer 10

yes it is, but silence on its own is the absence of sound

Answer 11

It sure is. Rather like smelling nothing is a smell. Knowing this is the essence of finding joy in nothing.

My sermon for the day....