he's not a genius. he's just imaginative; stretch the idea of music to
its limits & what do you get.
it's very interesting philosophically, but I don't think I've heard of
anything more pointless. well, technically it's probably more
'important' than 4'33", say, because this undertaking (which I foresee
will never be completed) will/would need a whole generations of people
to continue it & requires equipment. the idea of a song lasting more
than 600 years is also quite romantic, & poetic. I just think he wants
more attention, personally.
KS
On 28/11/2007, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> "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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> Roman Proverb
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