Thanks to everyone who participated in Unsilent Night 2008 all over the world. It was a smashing success. See you in 2009!!
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Phil Kline's Unsilent Night
Every year since 1992 I've presented
Unsilent Night, an outdoor ambient music piece for an INFINITE number of boombox tape players. It's like a Christmas caroling party except that we don't sing, but rather carry boomboxes, each playing a separate tape which is a "voice" in the piece. In effect, we become a city block long stereo system!
In 2008 the New York event will happen on
Saturday, December 13th. We will meet at the Arch in Washington Square Park at 6:45 pm, begin at 7 pm and proceed eastward to Tompkins Square Park, where the piece will end around 8 o'clock.
It would be really cool if you could join us and bring a boombox. The more tapes we run, the bigger and more amazing the sound will be. This past Christmas we had several hundred boomboxes and well over 1000 people...it was really spectacular. If you'd like to participate, please e-mail me at
boombox {at} mindspring {dot} com so I will know how many tapes to make. If you'd like to participate but don't have a boombox, I have several dozen and you can grab one...and if you want to come and just listen, that's cool, too. Help us make a BIG (and joyful) noise.
Also, we have Mp3s available for folks who have iPods with speakers.
If you live outside of New York and would like to arrange a performance in your area, e-mail
[email protected] for details. In recent years,
Unsilent Night has been presented in many cities worldwide, including Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco, Tucson, Detroit, Boulder, Seattle, Vancouver, the Yukon, Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, Middlesbrough, England, Hamburg, Germany, and Los Angeles, in addition to New York.
The CD version of Unsilent Night is available on Cantaloupe .
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philkline.com for more information about Phil and Unsilent Night.
