"When you have a lot of sound and then you suddenly go to silence, it's such a disarming contrast. It's like if you're doing puppetry and you drop a puppet."
Lindsay Harris Friel writes The Fiction Podcast Weekly newsletter. She's the creator of Jarnsaxa Rising, co-host of Life in the Ted Lane, and I'd highly recommend checking out her 11th Hour Audio piece, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Automatics.