Wow this sounds great to this old bloke -(whatever Kasper says!!) just the
idea of it --of course some of my poems -well ?????!!!!!performance wise at
least the audience would not need to be there for 639 years or would you
have your ashes put into the church??
Enough rambling P
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Roger Day
Sent: 28 November 2007 21:24
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Subject: ASLSP
"Another of Cage's works, Organē / ASLSP, is currently being performed
near the German township of Halberstadt, in an imaginative
interpretation of Cage's directions for the piece. The performance is
being done on a specially-constructed autonomous organ built into the
old church of St. Burchardi. It is scheduled to take a total of 639
years after having been started at midnight on September 5, 2001. The
first year and half of the performance was total silence, with the
first chord -- G-sharp, B and G-sharp -- not sounding until February
2, 2003. Then in July 2004, two additional Es, an octave apart, were
sounded and are scheduled to be sounded later this year on May 5. But
at 5:00 p.m. (16:00 GMT) on Thursday, 5 January, the first chord
progressed to a second -- comprising A, C and F-sharp -- and is to be
held down over the next few years by weights on an organ being built
especially for the project."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_As_Possible
The man's a genius.
Roger
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