Epistemographer

I heard about Unsilent Night years ago, and have been wanting to go…I think this year I’ll actually make it!

Every year since 1992 I’ve presented Unsilent Night, 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!

In 2003 the piece will happen on Saturday December 13th. We will meet at the Arch in Washington Square at 6:45 pm, begin at 7 pm and proceed eastward to Tompkins Square Park, where the piece will end around 8 o’clock.

It would be really cool if you could join us and bring a boom box. The more tapes we run, the bigger and more amazing the sound will be. This past Christmas we had 50 boomboxes and over 200 people total, it was really spectacular… If you’d like to do it, please email me at boombox@mindspring.com so I will know how many tapes to make. If you’d like to do it but don’t have a boombox, I have several dozen and you can reserve one…and if you want to come and just listen, that’s cool, too. Help us make a BIG (and joyful) noise.

If you live outside of New York and would like to arrange a performance in your area, email to the above address for details. Unsilent Night has now been presented in Tallahassee, San Diego, Vancouver, B.C. and Berlin, Germany. On Friday December 19 2003 it will have its second annual Philadelphia performance.

Who’s in with me?

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