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The Kill the Silence Technique
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Kill The Silence is a technique utilizing Adobe Flash for delivering high-quality, low-bandwidth music soundtracks over narrowband, dial-up internet connections. In late 1998, Frank Gelat (bio) helped develop this technique when it was discovered that by placing a small, silent file in a Flash presentation timeline, the software can be 'tricked' to deliver the audio file as a low-bandwidth, streamed file but with the high audio fidelity of a downloaded, looping file.
Frank presented this technique in a session at the in 2000 and his technique became widely-known in the Flash community as the killersound Technique, later becoming known as the more aptly named the Kill The Silence Technique. Multimedia composers became accustomed to writing music in this modular format for web presentations and found it lucrative, including [http://www.grammys.com/grammy_awards/51st_show/list.aspx#27 2009 Grammy Award Nominated] Artist Joel Zimmerman (Deadmau5). Given that neither Macromedia nor Adobe Systems have developed a similar capability in subsequent versions of Flash, the technique is still useful to developers today. In fact, Adobe Systems still features the technique at Adobe.com since also applies to new low-bandwidth audio presentations, games and applications found on mobile devices.
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