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The duet Silence, consisting of musicians, composers, and producers Boris Benko and Primož Hladnik, has released five studio albums so far: 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. 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 Tomaž Pandur’s plays Barroco and Caligula.

In 2006, the duet composed and produced Volk, Laibach’s 7th album. In 2015, Laibach and Silence became the first Western alternative acts to perform in North Korea. The duet rearranged nine standards from the musical The Sound of Music for the occasion. The songs were released by Mute Records in 2018. 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), Family Therapy (Sonja Prosenc, 2024), and Girl in the Night (Luka Marčetić, 2025). Family Therapy won Best Original Score at the 27th Festival of Slovenian Film. In 2022, the duet scored Trigrad, an 8-part drama series by Sonja Prosenc. More information:www.silence-zone.org