ABSTRACT
In the last years a new phenomenon has come forward on the international music scene: Silent Disco. The effect is very impressive, but the principle on which Silent Disco is based is far from being a simple provocation. The fact that everybody may choose which tune to dance to suggest an ideal solution to the problem of limiting the sound level that is often exceed in discos and musical events. In the last decades ambient music has confronted itself with individual systems of listening to music such as Walkmans and more recently iPods, which allow individuals to escape the ordered world and listen to their favorite music in an isolated condition. Silent Disco uses the same technology, but accompanying socializing events. Opera leaves conventional theatres and enters unusual performance venues, bringing music in public spaces. As for Public Art works, these events are created expressly for urban life.
