Silence Is Worth Your Time

About this episode

Noam Hassenfeld discusses the use of silence in storytelling on the Sound School Podcast.

Back when I worked at radio stations, people joked "Silence is bad juju." We're not supposed to include much, if any, silence in audio stories -- for broadcast or podcast. Noam Hassenfeld went the opposite direction and embraced silence -- lots of it! -- on a recent episode of Unexplainable, the science podcast from Vox. Noam explains how he craftily deployed silence in his storytelling on this episode of Sound School.

People in this episode

Host: Rob Rosenthal

Guest: Noam Hassenfeld

Topics covered

• silence in storytelling
• audio production
• podcasting techniques
• narrative style
• science communication

Keywords

• silence
• storytelling
• podcast
• audio
• narrative
• Unexplainable
• Vox

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Vox, Sound School

Books & works: Unexplainable

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