oh he's certainly talented. and semantically speaking, I guess it
doesn't take more than talent & inaginativeness to be a genius. ah
well.
KS
On 29/11/2007, Peter Cudmore <[log in to unmask]> 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
> >
> > --
> > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> > "In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons."
> > Roman Proverb
>
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