[dorkbotdc-blabber] unsilent night

[Justin Sabe]

This is my favorite Holiday event, next to the Tuba Christmas concerts
I play in (6th in Baltimore harbor, 8th Kennedy Center)
Basically it is a participatory ambient sound installation /
performance. I added wheels to that deconstructed boom box thing I had
at my presentation and I hope to see some of you there.

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On Friday, December 12 at 8:00 p.m., starting at the Male/Female Sculpture
near Penn Station, saxophonist and Mobtown Modern curator Brian Sacawa
will lead a massive chorus of boomboxes through the streets of Baltimore
in the city's 3rd annual performance of New York City composer Phil
Kline's UNSILENT NIGHT, an outdoor ambient music piece for an infinite
number of boomboxes.

Different parts of the composition will be distributed on cassettes and
CDs. At the given signal, participants will press PLAY simultaneously.
When the tapes start rolling, "they blossom into a marvelously crafted
symphony" (Time Out New York). Then the crowd will walk a predetermined
parade route through the streets of Baltimore, becoming single elements in
a multi-block stereo system.

The event will end at the Metro Gallery (1700 N Charles St) at
approximately 9:00 p.m. Participants are invited to attend the UNSILENT
AFTER PARTY, featuring the music of Parachute Musical, Pianowire, and The
Noises 10. There will be a $7 cover charge.

The Village Voice describes UNSILENT NIGHT as "a marvelously fluid,
traveling spatial sound sculpture that disintegrates and reforms at nearly
every stop light." Time Out calls the event "an electro-happening" and
depicts the music as " a winter wonderland of shimmering sleigh bells,
chines, and grand chorales."

Participants should meet at the Male/Female sculpture in front of Penn
Station at 7:45 p.m. The event will begin at 8:00 p.m. The piece is
approximately 45 minutes long. All music is distributed for free. The more
boomboxes there are, the more "voices" in the piece.

If you do not have a boombox, you are still an important part of the
procession, because the more the merrier! UNSILENT NIGHT is kid-friendly,
so the whole family can enjoy some good, down-home holiday noise-making.

Help make a BIG (and joyful) noise and be a part of the 2nd annual
performance of UNSILENT NIGHT, Baltimore's newest holiday tradition!

Since its debut in 1992, UNSILENT NIGHT has become a cult holiday
tradition in New York City and around the world, drawing crowds of more
than 1,000 participants. In addition to New York, UNSILENT NIGHT is also
performed in Los Angeles; San Francisco; San Diego; Philadelphia; Atlanta;
Cleveland; Tallahassee; Vancouver; Yukon Territory; Berlin; Middlesbrough,
England; Sydney; Melbourne; Santa Barbara; Charleston; Rochester, NY;
Banff, Alberta; and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. New this year are: Houston;
New Haven; Boulder; Bowling Green, OH; and Hamburg, Germany.

This is a free event, and will be held rain or shine (and even in the
event of sub-zero temperatures). For more information, contact Brian
Sacawa at brian at briansacawa.com.

Phil Kline's UNSILENT NIGHT in Baltimore is presented by saxophonist and
Mobtown Modern curator Brian Sacawa