Silence is the ground in which sounds appear and disappear, writes Ravi Agrawal. We are not opposed to noise; we just miss it because our minds are so disturbed that we latch on to noise. Music is actually given structure and existence by the silences in between. If you don't manage the silences, music will disintegrate into noise.
Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches one of the shortest and most profound upanishads accompanied by Gaudapada's Karika. This lecture covers Karika 22-23 and Mantra 12.