ABOUT
Silence is Hladnik (music and arrangements) and Benko (music, lyrics, and vocals).
The duet's discography consists of five studio albums: Ma non troppo (1997), Unlike a Virgin (1999), Vain – A Tribute to a Ghost (2004), Musical Accompaniment for the End of the World (2012), and The Vocabulary of Madness (2022). In 2006, the duet released Key Silence, a 2CD anthology and rarities collection.
The duet has scored more than seventy plays, dance performances, and radio dramas. Silence’s notable collaborators include directors Tomaž Pandur, Aleksandar Popovski, Primož Ekart, Matjaž Berger, Livija Pandur, and Matjaž Pograjc. The duet's discography includes four theatre scores: Maison des rendez-vous (2003), Love Unto Death (2007), Veronika (2005), and The Passion of the Cold (2008), a double album with music from Pandur’s plays Barroco and Caligula.
The duet has scored a number of feature-length films, including A Call Girl (Damjan Kozole, 2009), Nightlife (Damjan Kozole, 2016), History of Love (Sonja Prosenc, 2018), and Family Therapy (Sonja Prosenc, 2024). Family Therapy won Best Original Score at the 27th Festival of Slovenian Film.
The duet collaborates regularly with Laibach. In 2006, the duet composed and produced Volk, Laibach’s 7th studio album. In 2015, Laibach and Silence became the first Western alternative acts to perform in North Korea. Silence rearranged a number of standards from Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical The Sound of Music for the occasion. The songs were released by Mute Records in 2018. In 2019, Mute Records released Party Songs, a six-track EP featuring unpublished tracks from the repertoire of Laibach’s and Silence’s performances in Pyongyang.
In 2024, Anton Podbevšek Theatre produced Proces(i), the first play written and directed by Silence.