day no. 15,476: a place for choirs and for quiet

"Music and silence — how I detest them both! How thankful we should be that ever since our Father entered Hell — though longer ago than humans, reckoning in light years, could express — no square inch of infernal space and no moment of infernal time has been surrendered to either of those abominable forces, but all has been occupied by Noise — Noise, the grand dynamism, the audible expression of all that is exultant, ruthless, and virile — Noise which alone defends us from silly qualms, despairing scruples, and impossible desires. We will make the whole universe a noise in the end. We have already made great strides in this direction as regards the Earth. The melodies and silences of Heaven will be shouted down in the end. But I admit we are not yet loud enough, or anything like it." 
-- C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

God is the source of music and the mute button, of beautiful sound and peaceful silence. There is majesty in music and there is solemnity in silence. The chords which are struck are measured and weighed by fixed principles and order infused into the world as an overflow of our God, Who is not of chaos, but of peace. Peace can produce music or it can enjoy silence and Heaven is filled with intermittent periods of both.

Revelation 14:2-3
And I heard a voice from heaven like the roar of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. The voice I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps, and they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders.

Revelation 8:1
When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

Heaven is full of choirs and quiet. It has room for both. But the darkness desires neither. It aims at noise. Noise that breaks the silence. Noise that destroys the melody. Discord that beats to a different drum. Hell is noise, noise, NOISE!!! It cannot come together and it cannot cease.

Noise is chaos incarnate.