Noise Pollution

Title: Noise Pollution
Author: Alison Wilgus
Published: Strange Horizons, 6 April 2015 
Description, by Lois Tilton [Locus]: "Urban fantasy in a future cursed by malignant clouds of Noise. Which is to say that the Musical, a minority of the population, are so cursed, not the Tonedeaf. The Musical must be sure to keep a Song going at all times, to ward off the Noise, and they employ the obsolete technology of cassette for the purpose..... " 
Category:Best Short Story