Silent Discos: The Quietest Claremont Party Ever

• Main Author: Kaplan, Rainie
• Format: Others
• Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2018
• Subjects: Silent Disco; Noise Pollution; Interdisciplinary Arts and Media
• Online Access: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1083; http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2191&context=scripps_theses

I challenge quiet regulations within my own community, the Claremont University Consortium, by hosting two Silent Discos in culturally and explicitly quiet locations: the Honnold Mudd Library and the James Turrell Skyspace at Pomona College. Attempting to demonstrate Silent Disco’s ability to sonically adapt to quietly marked areas I recorded the sounds generated by these events and later amplified them in these culturally quiet locations. These Silent Discos embrace the given environment and sound limitations, while simultaneously accepting the popular modes of musical listening. By performing Silent Discos in the James Turrell Skyspace at Pomona College and the Honnold Mudd Library, I give the power to each individual to reduce noise pollution, while collectively listening to the same music as a group.