[dorkbotdc-blabber] unsilent night

[Alberto Gaitán]

Awesome! Wish I could make it to Balto on the 12th.

Gonna make it happen in DC for 2009.

A



On 12/3/08 3:14 PM, Justin Sabe wrote:
> 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
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