A little birdy let The Scene know about a cool music-based event happening tomorrow (Dec. 19th) in Dolores Park: Unsilent Night 2009. Here is an excerpt from the event’s Web site:
Unsilent Night 2009 will take place in more than 25 cities around the world and for the first time in London, Berlin, Denver, and Dallas.
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UNSILENT NIGHT is [Phil] Kline’s free outdoor participatory sound sculpture of many individual parts, recorded on cassettes, CD’s and mp3′s, and played through a roving swarm of boomboxes carried through city streets every December. People bring their own boomboxes and drift peacefully through a cloud of sound which is different from every listener’s perspective.
Since its debut in 1992, UNSILENT NIGHT has become a cult holiday tradition in NY, drawing crowds of up to 1,500 participants. It has also grown into a worldwide annual event, presented in over 45 cities and on three continents.
Kline says: ”Every year I present UNSILENT NIGHT, which is like a Christmas caroling party except we don’t sing, but rather carry boomboxes, each playing a separate tape or CD which is part of the piece. In effect, we become a city-block-long stereo system.”
For tomorrow’s San Francisco Unsilent Night event, participants should begin gathering in Dolores Park at 7 p.m. The event itself will begin at 7:30 p.m., and is expected to last one hour.
Now, I know that technically this isn’t a LIVE music event. But it is a MUSIC event, and a living piece of interactive art. Go forth, be creative, and long live music!