Press

2026 / critical text / artycok tv

Translating Worlds

Ondrej Trhon writes about therapy sessions w/YouTube, VTubing, the avatar body, livestream anxiety and the platform job interview.

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2025 / publication / avu

Avatar Studies II: Horor

Matteo Ruggiero appears among the authors of the AVU-supported publication on horror, artificial bodies and avatar culture.

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2025 / paf / jine vize cz

I Have Become an SUV

GTA V, autonomy loops and car-body mythology entered the Jine Vize CZ 2025 finalist selection through PAF Olomouc.

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2025 / brno16 / live score

Silent Films with Live Music

Kino Art / BRNO16 night placing Matteo Ruggiero inside a live-score collision with early cinema, image history and sound.

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2025 / exhibition-performance / gampa

My Last Drop of Gasoline

Performed during Neni to tak spatny, the FaVU Intermedia Studio intervention at GAMPA around cars, wreckage, voice and bodily systems.

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2023 / ep press / full moon

Opravit se

Full Moon covered the EP release through Italian-Czech identity, social-media addiction, online childhood and experimental pop electronics.

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2026 / vinyla night / archa+

Vinyla Night guest

Czech Television's report on the Vinyla awards notes sxilence among the special guests performing during the festival-format night.

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2025 / vfx + graphic design / lebanon hanover

Torture Rack

Lebanon Hanover's official page credits Matteo Ruggiero with Oliver Torr for VFX and graphic design on the Torture Rack video.

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2024 / ok story / ostrava

OK Story

GoOut archive for OK Story during Ostrava Kamera Oko: Anderson Do Paraiso, Sxilence and more in the Ostravica night system.

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2024 / kabinet muz / vinyla + bastl

Tokyo Drift + Fae Bestia + SXILENCE

Venue listing for the Vinyla/Bastl concert night at Kabinet MUZ, connecting sxilence to the wider Czech experimental pop scene.

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2025 / czech k-pop / goout

Jak jako ceskej k-pop?

GoOut lineup page connecting sxilence to Toyota Vangelis, Wierdsky, Mat213, Klara Wodehn, litterbin, Ai Fen and Princip.

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2024 / festival live / ostrava kamera oko

SXILENCE (LIVE)

Festival listing for the Brno-based musician and producer layer: global club, post-rap, crystalline sound design, dark pop machinery.

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2026 / construction crew / ra

RGB at Fraktal

Resident Advisor lists sxilence with count and MC GOLEM as Construction Crew, stripping bass, grime and bars down to club pressure.

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2025 / blog mention / create digital music

Kluci z garaze

CDM links sxilence with BoLs/sLoB and Toyota Vangelis in the Kluci z garaze hyperpop-adjacent Czech music weather system.

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2024 / podcast-interview / reflektor

Reflektor 269

Radio 1's Reflektor episode with Toyota Vangelis and Sxilence around Kluci z garaze, Moody Moon Noize and the Czech digital pop circuit.

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2024 / softspot / kabinet muz

SXILENCE + badfocus + COUNT

Early Kabinet MUZ Softspot bill after Opravit se, framing sxilence as experimental singing/rap with detailed beats.

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2024 / kafara / brno

yanntray + Venktovka + sxilence

Brno concert listing with sxilence at Kafara alongside yanntray and DJ Venktovka from Opak Dissu.

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2024 / underdogs / hearts ceremony

Hearts Ceremony

Underdogs night with Fae Bestia, Petr Bursa, sxilence and others: dark pop, experimental electronics and heart-transplant club feelings.

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2024 / kluci z garaze / kabinet muz

softspot: Kluci z garaze

Kabinet MUZ presents the club-boyband formation of BoLs/sLoB, sxilence and Toyota Vangelis as mutant songwriting electronics.

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2025 / bike jesus / prague

Mezi patry klid + Aid Kid + Sxilence

GoOut listing for a Bike Jesus album-release night where sxilence appears alongside Mezi patry klid and Aid Kid.

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2025 / archa+ / optic hazard

Amphibian 4th Anniversary

ARCHA+ places count and sxilence inside Amphibian's quadrophonic system with Optic Hazard: welding helmets included, bass pressure split across four channels.

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2025 / jesneni / jesenik

Festival Jesneni

Festival listings place sxilence in Jesenik's public-space programme alongside concerts, AVU installations, screenings and performances.

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2025 / jesneni / full moon

Jesneni feature

Full Moon's festival note names Matteo Ruggiero's sxilence project in the fifth Jesneni programme with Aiko, Guest Julka and DJ Fedor.

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2025 / stegi radio / glazmo network

glazmo_network feat. sxilence

Radio/show page describing sxilence as the Italo-Czech project moving through a shadowy post-internet reality.

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2025 / bastl jam / kabinet muz

BASTL JAM

Kabinet MUZ listing for Bastl Jam with sxilence in the local electronics, instrument and live-jam orbit.

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2026 / ankali anniversary / prague

Ankali 9th Anniversary

RA lists MC GOLEM, COUNT and sxilence live in the anniversary sprawl of Ankali & Planeta Za.

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2024 / ankali anniversary / prague

Ankali 7th Anniversary

Older RA trace for COUNT & sxilence inside Ankali's seventh anniversary lineup.

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2026 / moon noize / construction crew

Construction Crew

Moon Noize artist page for the new Brno group: count, MC Golem and sxilence reducing 140 bpm to grime/dubstep bone matter.

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2026 / vinyla / official report

Vinyla official report

Vinyla's own report confirms sxilence among the special guests performing during the festival-format awards night.

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2026 / vinyla / musicserver

Musicserver Vinyla report

Additional music-press confirmation of sxilence appearing at Vinyla Night in ARCHA+.

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2026 / jesneni / official festival

Jesneni 2026

Current official Jesneni page lists sxilence among the announced performers for the sixth edition.

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2024 / underdogs / glitter hit

CLIP + Rohony + Sxilence

Denik Alarm's Glitter Hit preview names the Underdogs show as sxilence's second live show: a tiny but sharp origin trace.

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