From Wired.com
CONCEPTUAL RINGTONE SILENCES CELLPHONES

Subscribers Hear Four Minutes and Thirty-Three Seconds of Silence Whenever Someone Calls Them… Artist Jonathon Keats Offers Silent Ringtone Free-of-Charge Through Leading Mobile Content Provider Start Mobile… Silence May Go Platinum in 2007…

JANUARY 5, 2007 - Since the beginning of time, pure silence has been available only in the vacuum of space. Now conceptual artist Jonathon Keats has digitally generated a span of silence, four minutes and thirty-three seconds in length, portable enough to be carried on a cellphone. His silent ringtone, freely distributed through special arrangement with Start Mobile, is expected to bring quiet to the lives of millions of cellphone users, as well as those close to them.

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