Or try La Monte Young's "The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line
Stepdown Transformer,"
which I heard most of (missing the first fifteen or twenty minutes).
Herewith a snippet from
Chas. McCardell's review:
"A small, select audience at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater took a
trip Wednesday evening without even leaving their seats. The panglobal
music of composer La Monte Young transported them around the world in
roughly 70 minutes without once breaking the sound barrier. ...Perfect
intonation by all, and their ability to set up varying harmonic
combinations, improvising within the context of Young's explicit
directions, were what transformed a well-gauged theory into a piece
whose purity of sound made one oblivious to temporal concerns."
Charles McCardell, The Washington Post, October 18, 1985
Four trumpeters, as I recall, four tones: delightful.
Hal
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On Nov 28, 2007, at 6:54 PM, Peter Cudmore wrote:
> I really think they misunderstand Cage's intent. Any fool can play
> one note
> per year, and pass on the game to the next generation. It's much
> harder, I
> think, to slow down a real-time performance to the point that you
> have to
> think about whether it is a contiguous performance of one thing, or
> the
> separation into several performances.
>
> That said, turning up to hear one note played has its own dynamic. I
> wouldn't presume to say that Cage didn't intend this outcome.
>
> P
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Roger Day
>> Sent: 28 November 2007 21:24
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> 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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