The present paper addresses the issue of the implication of silence on hearing and its epistemological contribution to culture. The main objective of the paper is to prove that silence plays a fundamental role at a perceptive and creative level becoming a powerful tool in creating and interpreting meaning. In order to show the extent of these points, the article is divided into three parts: the treatment of the inherent link between silence and hearing, the roots of astonished hearing in literature and finally an analysis of some proposals by the artist Felix Hess, whose work is closely linked to the principles transmitted in the aforementioned points. This highlights the validity of a notion that has scarcely ever been considered under the...