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  • Jundo
    Treeleaf Founder and Priest
    • Apr 2006
    • 40719

    Just Wait for Intermission ...

    World's slowest musical composition changes chord for first time in seven years

    A musical composition designed to take well over 600 years to play has gone through its first chord change in seven years.

    Entitled "As Slow as Possible" (ASLSP), the composition by the late American composer John Cage is due to be played out over 639 years at the St. Burchardi church in Halberstadt in Germany.

    Needless to say, no one will hear the piece in its entirety but the project has garnered quite a following, with many masked fans flocking to the church over the weekend to witness the event. For those unable to attend in person, there was a livestream.

    The performance started in 2001 on an organ specially built for the super slow-paced recital. During that time, there was a pause that lasted for 18 months, while the most recent note change took place in 2013.

    If all goes to plan, the performance will come to an end in 2640.

    https://us.cnn.com/style/article/cho...grm/index.html
    Will there be an encore?

    Gassho, J

    STLah
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE
  • Tai Shi
    Member
    • Oct 2014
    • 3438

    #2
    I know the new music of John Cage which was new when I was 18. That’s 51 years ago. Almost all of you were not even thought of at that time.
    Gassho
    sat / lah
    Tai Shi


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    Peaceful, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, for positive poetry 優婆塞 台 婆

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    • Risho
      Member
      • May 2010
      • 3178

      #3
      whoa!
      Email: risho.treeleaf@gmail.com

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      • Jundo
        Treeleaf Founder and Priest
        • Apr 2006
        • 40719

        #4


        ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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        • Tairin
          Member
          • Feb 2016
          • 2847

          #5
          Awesome.


          Tairin
          Sat today and lah
          泰林 - Tai Rin - Peaceful Woods

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          • Cooperix
            Member
            • Nov 2013
            • 502

            #6
            Ah!
            John Cage!
            What a Brilliant artist!

            Bows to his memory...
            Anne

            ~lahst~

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            • Tai Shi
              Member
              • Oct 2014
              • 3438

              #7
              Several pieces for Orchestra A-tonal, 12 tone, and with silence interwoven, heard one piece for piano strings and hammer. Cage is not the earliest. I’m familiar with Arnold Schoernberg.
              Gassho
              sat/ lah
              Tai Shi


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              Peaceful, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, for positive poetry 優婆塞 台 婆

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