Nashville, Tennessee
Friday, December 20, 2019 8:00 PM
Hosted by Nief-Norf
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/732207870588423/
Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night in Nashville
Friday, December 20, 2019
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Schermerhorn Symphony Center Plaza
Fill out the form on our website to participate: http://www.niefnorf.org/2019-20-season/unsilent-night-nashville
We invite you to join us for Boombox Christmas Caroling
with Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night!
Phil Kline's Unsilent Night is a free outdoor participatory sound sculpture of many individual parts, recorded on cassettes, CDs, and mp3s, 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 1992, this 45-minute work has grown into a worldwide annual communal event that has become an essential part of many winter holiday celebrations.
With your help, we will create this roving sound installation, where boomboxes replace voices in a holiday caroling event like no other! You bring a boombox, cassette tape player, iPod/iPhone/iPad with speakers, or any other media playing device you wish, and Nief-Norf will supply a CD, cassette tape, or digital download of one of the four parts of the piece. We all press play together, and walk through the streets of Nashville, creating a cacophony of bells, voices, and reverberant joy that will make heads turn on every corner.