Unsilent night in 26 cities this year

Colin says: "Once again this year, I'm producing San Francisco's Unsilent Night, Phil Kline's FREE mobile boombox concert for an infinite number of boomboxes. Last year drew more than 1,000 participants in San Francisco; this year it's happening in 26 cities across the world. It's the best, brightest, most cheerful hour of the holiday season -- beautiful ambient music echoing through the streets and structures of the winter metropolis. Load up on fresh batteries and come join us...or another Unsilent Night in a city close to you!" Link

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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anthony

I’m glad I won’t have any moments of silence spent remembering past places and people interrupted by that mess. Can’t we have a silent night once in a while?
Not much of a believer, but for Christ’s sake…
cstankaitis

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BIZKeT

Thank goodness they aren’t doing it in Portland. I am not a ‘humbug’ but I _hate_ Christmas music. That’s all we sang in choir through high school and all it does is set my brain on fire.
DA

I attended one of Kline’s events in San Francisco a couple years ago and thought it was kind of wondrous.
porn for creative souls

It would be better if there was an fm transmitter and the boomboxes would just tune in…

Santa Flash Mobs seem personally more entertaining…

http://scophy.com/2007/12/12/event-wednesdays-santa-flash-mob/
Anonymous

to the person who hates the xmas music, believe me, i do too. Phil’s piece(s) are more abstract and transcendent than such literal fluff, vaguely choral and bell-y, but mainly just very open and reverent. this is one of the more magical things you could ever do, so unpretentious, so just what it is, pure loveliness and wonder, immediately accessible by everyone, and no less glorious for that. thanks for the reminder y’all, gives me sweet chills every time I think of it.
Tensegrity

bizket@#2 it’s not Christmas music

porn@#4 interesting idea but that doesn’t appear to be Kline’s intended experience. The designed-in “errors” are part of the interesting happenstances that occur. But if flash mobs are your thing, then unsilent night probably is not.

Sadly, I’ll have to miss the SF event this year, but if you haven’t been you don’t really know what you are missing.
Shrdlu

Waste of batteries.
CVR

‘More noise please!’ as Steven Jesse Bernstein said.

http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~zealots/sjb/noise.html