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[sepiakitty]

John Cage "As Slow As Possible" Performance Changes Chords For The First Time In Two Years

Organ Playing 639-Year Version Of John Cage's "As Slow As Possible" Changes Chords

For the first time in two years.

[commiegoth]

Happy As Slow As Possible Chord Change Day to all who celebrate!

A 639-year-long John Cage organ performance has a rare chord change on Monday

On Monday, at a church in Germany, a single chord will change in an iconic piece of 20th-century music, which ends in the year 2640.

[tante-litfass]

[schibborasso]

AS SLOW AS POSSIBLE

[moonshinerbynight]

[annas-painting-workshop]

2013 ASLSP note change

This is a video of the October 5, 2013 note change that took place as part of the 639-year-long performance of John Cage's "As SLow aS Possible" (ASLSP) at t...

TIME

Thinking about projects spanning across time.... A version of cage’s ‘As slow as possible’ sees the duration of an artwork go beyond the life of a human - in fact many!! 639 years!!! Personally I think generous to create something in a selfless way,  for future generations (if they take it up or not). 

What happens when something is experienced incredibly slow? Notes become broken down, singular, reduced, minimal, abstract and indistinguishable as “music”. How could a similar approach be applied to painting? 

[patshen]

Saw a man about a very special organ + 639 year-long performance taking place in a 1000 year-old church in a small sleepy town in central Germany. Read more about it in the Summer edition of my quarterly newsletter thing (out next week I hope) — sign up at patrickshen.com. #johncage #aslsp