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P I said it was romantic & poetic so shush KS On 29/11/2007, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 > > -----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 > > -- > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/ > "In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons." > Roman Proverb > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.9/1155 - Release Date: 27/11/2007 > 20:30 >