Unsilent Night is an original composition by Phil Kline (NY), written specifically to be heard outdoors in the month of December. It takes the form of a street promenade in which the audience becomes the performer. Each participant gets one of four tracks of music in the form of a cassette, CD, or Mp3. Together all four tracks comprise Unsilent Night. The fact that the participants play different "parts" simultaneously helps create the special sound of the piece. Participants carry boomboxes, or anything that amplifies music, and simultaneously start playing the music. They then walk a carefully chosen route through their city’s streets, creating a unique mobile sound sculpture which is different from every listener's perspective.

The piece was so popular that it became an annual tradition, and then an international phenomenon, spreading across the USA and to other countries worldwide. Since 1992, it has been presented in over 50 cities and four continents, drawing crowds of up to 1,500 participants in cities like New York and San Francisco."

Bring a boombox or portable speaker that plays CDs or hooks up to an mp3 player. 

Download one of the four tracks that make up the piece, or download the free app that randomly selects a track each time you play it. Go to the website:

http://www.unsilentnight.com/participate.html

Gather at the spot, press play and walk.

“Kline’s luminous, shimmering wash of bell tones is one of the loveliest communal new-music experiences you'll ever encounter, and it's never the same twice.”
Time Out New York

“A marvelously fluid, traveling spatial sound sculpture that disintegrates and reforms at nearly every stop light.”
The Village Voice

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The details of this event are subject to change as they are in the beginning stages of planning.