Published: Thursday, September 27, 2012

Lookout Houston! We’re headed your way tonight. Come on down to Numbers Night Club for a silent disco featuring Echoplex, Gracie Chavez & Navó (Bombón), DJ Ipod Ammo, and DJ Sun. The show starts at 8:00 PM and is only $5.00, but a limited number of headphones will be provided so get there early!

Artist Britt Ragsdale will be filming the event from 9:00 PM to midnight. Per a post on Ragsdale’s blog:

In fulfillment of my HAA individual artist grant, I am creating a video piece utilizing silent disco technology. I am documenting the physical interactions between people in a club/party atmosphere without the distraction of music.

It’s shaping up to be a fun night all around at Numbers. Come out, get your silent disco on, and be a part of helping Britt create her art work.

Also this evening, we will be bringing the University of Silent Disco to Miami with Coke Zero.

Saturday night we will be up north for a private event in New York City and a University of Silent Disco event in Providence, RI.

We will wrap up the weekend Sunday afternoon in Memphis as we rock the Brookhaven Bash with State Farm.

Visit the Events page to see all of our upcoming silent events.

Life on the road…it’s what we do. Come out and see us!

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Published: Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Post excerpt:

The Silent Disco is a new concept at music festivals, where everyone in the audience wears wireless headphones with a direct feed to the music. I caught a couple of DJs in the Silent Disco and it was really neat to take your headphones off and listen to the sounds people make.

View the full post on funkit.virose.net

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Published: Thursday, November 24 2011

‘Silent Disco’ craze comes to Ybor

TAMPA – It may sound like any night at the Ritz, but if you look closely, you’ll see something very different. Everyone’s in headphones and you can stop the music yourself.

“It’s just like going to a club, but then you take off the headphones and you’re like, hey, it’s dead silent and you see people dancing to nothing,” said Mitch Heirholzer.

Wireless headphones are the must-have accessory at the Silent Disco. They’re included with the cover charge, and they’re the lifeline of the show.

“Max out the headphones. Let’s get this party started,” said Rob Robinson.

Silent Disco is all about the headset. You take it off and the music stops. It’s quiet. You put it back on and the beat goes on.

“Once you put the headphones on, you definitely feel a good connection with everything that’s going on,” explained DJ Wick-It the Instigator.

Like all good parties, the Silent Disco was born underground, off the radar, as an auditory speak-easy of sorts in Europe.

“The story goes that these guys were throwing a party in a wildlife refuge and they were allowed to do it except they couldn’t make noise after 9, so they bought 20 wireless headphones and held their very first Silent Disco,” said promoter Ryan Dowd.

It really is silent on the dance floor.

“It’s pretty awesome all the people dancing to no music outside the headphones. I like weird and awkward so [it’s not weird] for me. But yeah, it’s kind of weird,” said Jessica Collard.

Also it’s kind of multi-media. Some shows feature three DJs at once. Each blasts on a different channel, offering a choice for the iPhone generation.

“People want to go to a club or a live show and say I don’t want to listen to that music right now and change it on their headset live and listen to something totally different,” said Dowd.

Or you can just talk.

“It’s nice; you can actually carry out a conversation,” said Kelli Crangi.

“It’s hard to figure out how to interact with people because normally you just hear the music blasting, you bump up to somebody,” Heirholzer said.

The Silent Disco is now on tour with stops everywhere from Atlanta to Maui to the Bonnaroo Music Festival.

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Published: Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Review excerpt:

Between the rock n’ roll, funk, electro jams and silent disco, each musical act was a unique experience within itself.

View full review on knightnews.com

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Published: Friday, November 11, 2011

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Published: Monday, November 7, 2011

Article excerpt:

Memphis-based Silent Events Inc. stages between 80 and 100 silent discos per year in the United States, including what may be the first one in Tampa, on Nov. 10 at the Ritz Ybor. (Tickets are $16; click here for info.) The next day, the company will bring more than 1,000 headsets to its biggest disco yet at the Bear Creek Music and Art Festival in Live Oak.

We caught up with Silent Events owner Ryan Dowd for a primer on how silent discos work.

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Published: Friday, October 29, 2010

Article excerpt:

There will be two stages, said event producer and UF senior accounting major Matt Teper. The side stage will feature Silent Disco powered by Silent Events, a party where revelers enjoy live music through headphones. Take them off, and the music stops, but everyone around you is still dancing. Put them back on, and you’re right back into the mix.

“I just thought it was one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen,” said Teper, who first experienced Silent Disco at this year’s Bonnaroo festival. “The concept is just incredible.”

View article on alligator.org

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Published: Thursday, March 25, 2010

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Published: Monday, March 22, 2010

Article excerpt:

Winter Music Conference is traditionally all about bringing the noise, with big beats and booming bass cascading throughout South Beach and its surroundings.

But imagine an event at a hotel where its guests can choose between grooving to pulsing electronic music – or simply enjoying the silence.

Impossible? Not when headphones for the masses are involved.

View full article on miami.com

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