The concept of a silent party or silent disco involves party-goers dancing to music received directly into headphones. Most commonly, this will be music provided by a DJ who will broadcast via an FM transmitter with the signal being picked up by wireless headphone receivers worn by the silent party attendees. Another type of silent party involves the gathering of a group of people in an unconventional location to dance to music which they provide themselves via an MP3 player and conventional wired headphones.
The idea has been around since the 1990s espoused by eco-activists who found that the easiest way to get large numbers of people to certain areas such as a forest that was being logged was to be put on a party, but this can cause distress to animals that are living in the area, so a compromise solution was needed for particularly sensitive areas.
Since then the concept has evolved into the guerilla-type gatherings as seen at London's Victoria Station in 2005 and also into commercial ventures across the UK, Europe and worldwide.
Source: Wikipedia.
The First Silent Disco in Estonia took place in February 2008 in NO-theater. Not the flash mob action exactly, but the FIRST event of this kind here :p
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