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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP Man
over a year ago

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John Cage’s work for organ Organ²/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible) has been playing on the organ of a church in Halberstadt, Germany since 2001 - The performance runs until 2640

This Saturday, the chord that has been held since 2013 will change .

Make sure you don’t miss it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Will it be on YouTube or somewhere similar?

Can I play this on Spotify?

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP Man
over a year ago

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Only one reply so it’s a shameless bump from me

No one likes the FOMO ....

You may not be alive long enough to hear the next chord change ... so don’t miss this one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think I'll be washing my hair..... Such a shame to miss it, but, hey.... That's life!

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP Man
over a year ago

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54041568

.... there’s video footage

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By *ensualMan
over a year ago

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I thought this would be about soloing with a guitar over cord changes using the CAGED method.

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By *partharmonyCouple
over a year ago

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I think they have done John Cage a disservice. The directions on the piece say "As slow as possible" which is why there is a change every five years. The problem is they are not following his instructions. They could always leave more time between changes. Why not six years? Or eight? Unfortunately it's not possible to follow the instruction because it could always be slower.

Have you heard Cage's most famous piece 4'33"(Four minutes thirty-three seconds)? When I was doing my music degree, we were played a recording of it on CD. I never got my head around why it wasn't just performed live for us. We were told he made a number of arrangements for different instruments and combinations. He even sued somebody once for copying his idea.

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP Man
over a year ago

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"I think they have done John Cage a disservice. The directions on the piece say "As slow as possible" which is why there is a change every five years. The problem is they are not following his instructions. They could always leave more time between changes. Why not six years? Or eight? Unfortunately it's not possible to follow the instruction because it could always be slower.

I really liked discovering the background and details of this John Cage organ work. I already know of his most famous work, which in a similar way really makes you think outside of the here and now (which in part can explain why a CD recording of 4,33 of silence at the time of the recording was played instead of just sitting listening in the lecture to a "live" 4,33 of silence

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Are they doing the organ work a disservice?

Makes you think how slow is "As slow as possible"?

To my mind if i wont ever here the end of the work - this performance of the work will outlive me - then it really is as slow as possible. Making the period between changes from 5 to 6,8,10 years ultimately still means you never hear the end of the performance; although you may here fewer changes in your lifetime. If i can here the whole work performed in full, at that point you could say it could have been played slower....

Great mind bending stuff for a Sunday morning

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54041568

.... there’s video footage

I'll check it out. I actually forgot about this

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