Silent disco
Silent Disco (also Leise Disco , Silent Disco or Headphone Party ) is the name for a dance event in which the music is heard through wireless headphones instead of loudspeakers . If you look at the scenery without headphones, you can't hear any music and see people dancing in a quiet room. As a rule, two to three DJs compete for the audience, who can decide for themselves which song to listen to by adjusting their wireless headphones. Silent Disco is z. It is popular, for example, at music festivals and open-air parties because it enables people to dance to loud music without disturbing the surrounding area. Similar events that use the concept of Silent Disco are so-called mobile clubbing , where people meet and dance to music that they tune into their personal MP3 player .
The headphone systems are also used for public viewings , open-air cinema , silent yoga, fitness as well as for private parties (e.g. weddings) and in the conference area (silent conference). Advantages result from the saving of the effort of large amplifiers and loudspeaker systems, relative quiet for the environment, but also quiet for discussions at the event itself. The volume can be individually regulated on the headphones, the room does not have to be left for a break in music. The choice between the music channels is also made by a switch on the headphones.
The first Silent Disco took place on a larger scale at the De Parade theater festival in 2002 and was organized by the two Dutch DJs Nico Ockeres and Michael Minten.
Web links
- Silent Disco - dancing moles , taz, January 28, 2011
- The huge business with the "Silent Disco" parties , picture, July 27, 2015
- If even the "Silent Disco" is too loud, Germany is Neon, July 23, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ Mark J. Butler: Playing with Something That Runs: Technology, Improvisation, and Composition in DJ and Laptop Performance . Oxford University Press, 2014, no p.
- ^ Stylianos Papathanassopoulos: Media perspectives for the 21st century . Taylor & Francis, Routledge, New York, 2011, ISBN 978-0415574983
- ↑ Mark Deuze: Media Life . Poliert Press, Cambridge / Malden 2012, p. 169 f.