Blog Post Week 9: Sounds of Silence

        Silence is an interesting concept in podcasts. The whole point of podcasts is that you hear it. You can't see the podcast host/performer so they have to convey their emotions and character through the sound. So how can a podcast use silence then? When first thinking about silence, I could not put how it was used in words. Then I saw this quote by Heidi McKee: “silence traces noise and noise traces silence in such an interleaving that there cannot, really, ever be a separation, hence the importance of discussions of silence in any discussions of sound”. It is like night and day, chocolate chip cookies and milk; you cannot have one without the other. This article as a whole illustrates that silence has no set use for it. Sure, you can use it the most common way, to create tension, but you can also use it to make jokes or transition into another scene. Both of these uses of sound are used in the podcast The Two Princes. In episode 4, Rupert and Amir are captured by a group of villains that want to eat them ad they are trying to convince the group that they know the leader Barabbas from his days as a performer. Barabbas pauses before happily stating that the boys must be fans of him, getting a laugh out of the listener. In episode 3, when Rupert and Amir finished talking, there is a pause before bells chime before their mothers start talking. This can help to differentiate your podcast from another. Podcasts are a form of creative media so it makes no sense to think inside the box. This article highlights different uses of silence used by KairosCast to further prove this point. I hope to be very original with the use of silence in both my Unit 3 and Unit 4 assignments.