Silence (disambiguation)

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Silence is a relative or total lack of sound.

Silence may also refer to:

Music

• Silence Records, a Swedish record label

Bands and artists

• Silence (band), a Slovenian electronic music duo
• Silence (French band), a French AOR band
• The Silence, a band that eventually became Mott the Hoople in 1969
• The Silence, an Australian band of the 1960s that featured Graham Goble, later of Little River Band
• The Silence (producer), a British music producer and film composer
• The Silence, a 1960s band from Leatherhead that evolved into John's Children

Albums

• Silence (Blindside album)
• Silence (Charlie Haden album)
• Silence (David Murray album), with Mal Waldron
• Silence (Facemob album)
• Silence (Slapshock album)
• Silence (Sonata Arctica album)
• Silence (Tara MacLean album)
• Underconstruction 1: Silence E.P., an extended play album by Gigi D'Agostino
• Silence, a 1987 album by Stephan Eicher

Songs

• "Silence" (Delerium song)
• "Silence" (Stromae song)
• "The Silence" (song), by Alexandra Burke
• 4′33″, sometimes referred to as "Silence" as it is a musical composition in which no standard instruments are played
• "Silence", a song by Gomez from Split the Difference
• "Silence", a song by Level 42 from Staring at the Sun
• "Silence", a song by The Parlotones from Radiocontrolledrobot
• "Silence", a song by The Ting Tings from Sounds from Nowheresville
• "The Silence," a song by Mayday Parade from Anywhere But Here

Films

• The Silence (1962 film), Soviet film directed by Vladimir Basov
• The Silence (1963 film), written and directed by Ingmar Bergman
• Silence (1971 film), by Masahiro Shinoda based on the 1966 novel by Shusaku Endo of the same name
• The Silence (1975 film)
• The Silence (1997 film), written and directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• Silence (2003 film), an American film starring Kristy Swanson
• The Silence (2006 film), an American film starring Richard Roxburgh
• Dead Silence, a 2006 horror film originally titled Silence
• The Silence (2010 film) (Das letzte Schweigen), a German film
• Silence (2013 film), an Indian Malayalam film
• Barfi!, a 2012 Indian Hindi film formerly titled Silence
• "Silence" (2016 film), an upcoming film being directed by Martin Scorsese

Television

• "The Silence" (The Twilight Zone), a season 2 episode of The Twilight Zone
• Silence (TV series), a 2006 Taiwanese television series starring Vic Zhou
• The Silence (2010 drama), a BBC One four-part thriller about a deaf girl who witnesses a murder
• Silence (Doctor Who), fictional aliens in the science fiction television series Doctor Who

Literary works

• Silence (book), a thirteenth-century book written in Old French by Heldris of Cornwall
• Silence (novel), a 1966 novel by Shusaku Endo
• Silence: Lectures and Writings, a 1961 collection of writings by American composer John Cage
• Silence (Becca Fitzpatrick novel), a 2011 novel by Becca Fitzpatrick
• "Silence", an 1839 poem by Edgar Allan Poe
• "Silence: A Fable", a short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• Silence, a 2012 novel by Natasha Preston (also name of series)

Plays and musicals

• Silence (play), a short play by Harold Pinter, first performed in 1969
• Silence (1999 play), a full-length play by Moira Buffini
• Silence! The Musical, an off-Broadway musical parody of the film Silence of the Lambs

Other uses

• Silence Dogood, a false persona adopted by Benjamin Franklin to get his work published
• Silence Mabuza (born 1977), South African boxer and former International Boxing Organization world welterweight champion
• Silence, a brand name for the drug lorazepam
• Silence, a district of southern Brussels, Belgium

See also

• Silence 4, a Portuguese band