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Silence Please

132 Bowery Floor 2, New York, NY 10013

holds 150 · silenceplease.com · 242 following on RA

212 listings across 156 nights · since Jun 2025 · 4 announced, through Fri 6 Nov

Silence Please is a speaker studio based in New York City. We design high-fidelity sound systems that prioritize depth over volume, clarity over loudness, and presence over performance. Each piece is designed to reveal the quiet details in sound—the breath before a word, the touch of a string, the shape of a room. Our space lives inside a former art gallery on the Bowery. It’s part listening room, part tea house. A place to slow down. To tune in and listen gently. We believe silence is not the absence of sound, but the presence of attention. We started Silence Please to make something slower. Something quieter. Something that tunes us back to what’s always been there. We don’t think of speakers as loud objects. We see them as instruments of care. Every detail—from acoustic tuning to physical form—is carefully considered to serve the listening experience. We began with a single prototype in a small New York studio. Then came a room. Then a cup of tea. Then others, drawn by the sound.

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What’s on 4 listings across 3 nights

busiest ahead · The Cure's Disintegration Listening Session with Andi — Thu 29 Oct · 122 going

2 more, through Fri 6 Nov

Counts are Resident Advisor's, relayed.

How the room runs

openThursdays, Fridays and Saturdays most weeksTuesdays, Wednesdays and Sundays some weeksMondays rarely
cost$0 most nights · 35 of the 35 Sunday listings carry no price at all · 25 of the 25 Tuesday listings carry no price at all · 31 of the 31 Wednesday listings carry no price at all · 37 of the 38 Thursday listings carry no price at all · 33 of the 33 Friday listings carry no price at all · 38 of the 39 Saturday listings carry no price at all
drawSaturday 45 · Sunday 29 · Wednesday 24 · Friday 19 · Tuesday 16 · Thursday 15 (the typical headline draw for each weekday over the past year: every night counted once, at its biggest listing, and the middle night taken; Mondays have run five times, too few to say)
seriesLISTENING SESSION 59 Sundays · Silence Please presents 7 Thursdays · Groove Obscura presents 5 Tuesdays · LISTENING SESSION with Daniel Vila 5 Thursdays (the four biggest of 7 series here, on 84 of the 207 listings in the last year)
booked bySilence Please (205), Soundfynd (2), Level III Collective (1) (7 accounts have filed here)

Fixed words, no estimates: every week is 4826, some weeks 9base beside them; a weekday with fewer than 8 listings is computed and then refused. Everything on these lines is the last twelve months, except who books it, which is the whole record.

The cast 19 names billed three nights or more, of 176 in all

11 more, three nights or more each

the sounds these names run in 106 of 278 bookings sit in a named crowd

  • Silence Please listening-bar selectors104 bookings55 names

A crowd is a group of artists often booked in the same circles. Circles of people are listed separately from sounds.

Every night it has held 208 listings across 153 nights

2026 — 207 listings
2025 — 1 listing

Every listing this room has held, newest first, each one a link to its own night. The names are whoever was billed, first three by bill order; the account is whoever filed the listing. 4 announced nights are in What's on above, not here.

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Ordered by how much of either room's cast the two share, so the city's biggest room does not head every list.

Related means rooms this room's regulars also keep coming back to — not rooms that feel alike. A regular is somebody billed here on three nights or more.

The listings, the counts of them and every figure derived from them are our own record of what Resident Advisor published. Going-counts and genre tags are Resident Advisor's, relayed. Titles, prices and house rules are the promoters' own words, quoted exactly. The address, capacity, phone, website, follower count and description are Resident Advisor's venue page. Crowd names are ours. Nothing on this page was written for it.