Decode Media & FM:RL Presents

Unsilent Night 07

Unsilent Night is a surround sound walk featuring a composition by New York Artist Phil Kline.

Unsilent Night 06

"Unsilent Night immerses the listener in suspended wonderment,

as if time itself had paused inside a string of jingle bells."

Jon Pareles, THE NEW YORK TIMES

Can the carols, get your ghetto blaster out and join us for an interactive surround sound walk through the streets of Melbourne.

Every year since 1992 Phil Kline has composed and presented Unsilent Night in New York City, an outdoor ambient music piece made for an INFINITE number of boombox tape players. It's a take on Christmas caroling - you don't sing, you play one of the separate tracks on your boombox which makes up the composition.

This year’s 15th anniversary composition has finally made it to Melbourne on Thursday December 21st. We will meet at the State Library 7:30 pm, begin at 8pm and wander through the laneways, where the piece will end around 9 o'clock. It would be really great if you could join us and bring a boombox. The more tapes / CD’s we run, the bigger and more amazing the sound will be!

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Thursday 21st December 2006

Meeting point – steps of State Library of Victoria, Swanston Street Melbourne

Gathering 7:30pm for an 8:00pm sharp start

(remember we have to hit play all together at the same time!)

B.Y.O. Ghetto Blaster

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www.philkline.com

"A marvelously fluid, traveling spatial sound sculpture

that disintegrates and reforms at nearly every stop light...

This is a holiday tradition that could give new music a good name."

Kyle Gann, THE VILLAGE VOICE