Hosted by Nief-Norf

Phil Kline's Unsilent Night is a free outdoor participatory sound sculpture of many individual parts, recorded on cassettes, CDs, and mp3s, and played through a roving swarm of boomboxes carried through city streets every December. People bring their own boomboxes and drift peacefully through a cloud of sound which is different from every listener's perspective. Since 1992, this 45-minute work has grown into a worldwide annual communal event that has become an essential part of many winter holiday celebrations.

With your help, we will create this roving sound installation, where boomboxes replace voices in a holiday caroling event like no other! You bring a boombox, cassette tape player, iPod/iPhone/iPad with speakers, or any other media playing device you wish, and Nief-Norf will supply a CD, cassette tape, or digital download of one of the four parts of the piece. We all press play together, and walk through the streets of Nashville, creating a cacophony of bells, voices, and reverberant joy that will make heads turn on every corner.

Fill out the form on our website to participate: http://www.niefnorf.org/2019-20-season/unsilent-night-nashville

Join New Amsterdam and Metropolis Ensemble for our Holiday party!

Ring in the holidays with NewAm and Metropolis Ensemble at our Holiday Party. Featuring guest mixologist Andrew Yee as well as pop-up performances by João Rezende, JP Jofre, Tam Lin (Elliot Cooper Cole, Fiona Gillespie, and friends), Andrew Yee, and ambient electronic performances from Sebastian Zel, Alex Ring Gray, Natalie Braginsky, and David Bird.

*Liquor sponsorship by Dead As We Know It

Under the direction of Wayne Dumaine, the NYUO1 Orchestra premieres Blue Ridge, a winner of their 2019-20 Composition Competition. Also on the program: Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 and Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2.

Premiere of Medician Stars, performed by the composers of Nevermind the Noise.

Wesley Fowler performs Quantum Foam on his “Sound & Space” program

Nief-Norf performs my arrangement of Philip Glass’s Liquid Days (parts 1 + 2) on the Nief-Norf Summer Festival Marathon Concert.

Wesley Fowler performs Quantum Foam as part of the norf SPACE concert series at the 2019 Nief-Norf Summer Festival

Generative audio-visual installation; part of the norf SPACE series at the 2019 Nief-Norf Summer Festival

Generative audio-visual installation; part of the norf SPACE series at the 2019 Nief-Norf Summer Festival

Quince Ensemble performs a concert of new vocal works by NYU’s Nevermind the Noise composer collective, including For That Which Blooms

JACK Quartet premieres I/O as part of their NYU residency

The Franklin High School Trombone Ensemble premieres Geminids at Music For All’s Chamber Music National Conference.

Pulsing & Shaking Festival celebrates New Music created in New York, spotlighting premiere pieces through the lens of the last century’s groundbreaking works.

Debora Bang performs Burnout ; I perform on Elijah Brown’s Vitreous Reality and Sam Kaseta’s Corpus

Joshua Weinberg of KnoxTrio performs Stellar Parallax for piccolo and electronics