Mark Maclaine (sometimes known as The Silence) is a British educator, director, music producer, founder of Tutorfair[1][2] and writer.

They completed work on writing the music for the free-skiing trilogy 'Snow's in the House' and released their first album, Chromatography, in October 2004.

[3] They went on to write the music score for British feature film City Rats, which was released in early 2009 and on DVD on 27 April 2009.

[4] In 2008, Maclaine produced (under his pseudonym "The Silence") the album Close to Home in New York City with the New Zealand rapper Maitreya.

[7][8] They worked together on two more videos, "Playgrounds and Kisses" and "Electrical Storm", both reaching number 1 in the MTV Portugal charts and filmed in Free's hometown of Lisbon and London respectively.