Unsilent Night in San Diego - Saturday, December 14th, 7pm

Saturday, December 14th, 7pm

Gaslamp Trolley Station to Horton Plaza

San Diego, Ca

Free to all participants

New York composer Phil Kline created Unsilent Night as an electronic music carolling party, and for the past ten years it has been an annual event in downtown Manhattan, making it a new music holiday classic. For the first time it will be performed in the streets of San Diego, starting at the Gaslamp Trolley Station on Harbor Drive and winding through the streets of the Gaslamp to Horton Plaza.

Unsilent Night is an audience participation work, an outdoor ambient music piece for an INFINITE number of boom box tape players. It's like a Christmas carolling party except that we don't sing, but rather carry boom boxes, each playing a separate tape which is part of the piece. In effect, we become a city block long stereo system! Performances in New York have been using hundreds of participants. The more people that are involved, the more joyous a sound we can create.

The piece will happen on Saturday, December 14th. We will meet at the Gaslamp Trolley Station at 5th and Harbor at 6:40pm, and starting at 7:00pm walk through the streets of San Diego's Gaslamp down to the outdoor ice rink in Horton Plaza. The whole walk takes about 40 minutes.

The more people that are involved the more beautiful and festive it will be! Phil Kline's ambient soundscape becomes more magical and unpredictable with more tapes being played, filling the air and seeming to come from all directions at once.

All you need to join in the sound is a portable tape player with fresh batteries, and we will provide you with a cassette tape of the music. Just send me an email so I can know how many copies to bring on the 14th. If you don't have a tape player you are still welcome to join the procession and just enjoy the music. Unsilent Night is also kid-friendly, so bring the whole family!

If you would like to take part in Unsilent Night, contact Marcos Fernandes at (619) 299-5371 or sounds@accretions.com

This event is presented by a coalition of San Diego musicians.

More about Phil Kline and Unsilent Night:

http://www.mindspring.com/~boombox/xmas.htm

http://villagevoice.com/bestof/2000/detail.php3?id=2520

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0201/sotc.php

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/03/arts/03SISA.html?pagewanted=2