“Unsilent Night” is artist Phil Kline’s free outdoor participatory sound sculpture played through a roving swarm of hundreds of boomboxes carried through the Mission District creating a 44-minute ambient roving electronic Christmas carol of chimes and bells.

Hundreds of people bring their own boomboxes and drift peacefully through a cloud of sound which is different from every listener’s perspective in an outdoor ambient music piece that winds throughout the streets of the Mission District. Think of it as a block-long stereo system and Christmas parade.

How to Participate in Unsilent Night 2009:
The event begins at the NorthEast corner of Dolores Park (near the tennis coursts) at 7:30pm. Bring your own boombox. There will be cassette tapes and CDs available for handout. We recommend you arrive a few minutes early. Event is rain or shine.

Supposedly there are also MP3s you could download from the Unsilent Night  website so you could bring a laptop or ipod with speakers, but we couldn’t find them. Email unsilentnightsf@gmail.com with any questions.

Links: Event details

Cost: FREE

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