Unsilent Night 2008: East Village Hit With Ambient Boom-Box Symphony

Every year, composer Phil Kline records an "outdoor ambient music piece" for boom boxes and traverses the country, distributing cassette tapes and ghetto blasters to ordinary citizens to be played at loud volume. On Saturday, his Unsilent Night hit the East Village, and nymag.com's intrepid Jonah Green was on hand to feel the noise.

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[Knowwon249]

Looks like they got a real humdrum life if they find this to be fun and exiting...

[boombox10002]

how would you know what they'd like or dislike? gotta work on the playa hating thing, man. not good for your health! (LOL)

[cbhbklyn]

December 12th at 7PM for Unsilent Night this year. I can't wait. I did it last year and it was one of the most memorable events I've ever participated in.

[boombox10002]

They started this years before the Lips thing.

[zon3k]

pathetic bunch of idiots

if they had got 100 people to walk through a town playing hip hop at loud volumes then the same sort of people who liked this video would be disliking the other

pointless wank with no purpose

[bikerbob951]

You're right about that.  Ignore these suckers with the thumbs down business, they are uneducated about good music and the artists behind it.

[LeadNinja07]

Someone's a Flaming Lips fan.

[JohnCalhoon]

Hahahaha

[HerbSerpent]

hungry and impotent

[m4lvolio]

where's your jesus now, bitch ?