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How slow is slow

If a piece of music should be performed "as slow as possible", exactly how slow would it be? The current answer is, for a piece which would take 20 minutes to play with "normal" speed, 639 year. This is how long the performance of John Cage's "Organ squared / as slow as possible" will take. It has now been playing for almost four years. The first 20 year:

 K = Klang Anfang, P = Pause / Klang Ende 

 Impuls 1: P:              5. 09. 2001
 Impuls 2: K: gis', h', gi''  5. 02. 2003
 Impuls 3: K: e, e'          5. 07. 2004
 Impuls 4: P: gis', h  5. 07. 2005
 Impuls 5: K: a', c'', fi''  5. 01. 2006
 Impuls 6: P: e, e'          5. 05. 2006
 Impuls 7: K: c', as'  5. 07. 2008
 Impuls 8: P: c'          5. 11. 2008
 Impuls 9: K: d', e''         5. 02. 2009
 Impuls10: P: e''          5. 07. 2010
 Impuls11: P: d', gis''  5. 02. 2011
 Impuls12: K/P:   c'(16'), des'(16'), as'   5. 08. 2011
 Impuls13: P: a', c'', fis''  5. 07. 2012
 Impuls14: K: dis', ais', e'' 5. 10. 2013
 Impuls15: K: gis, e'  5. 09. 2020
 Impuls16: P: gis          5. 02. 2022
 

This is really an exiting project. I hope I will have an opportunity to visit the church sometime, hopefully when the note changes. Check the homepage of the project. The ethos of the project appeals to me:

The 89th birthday of John Cage markes the beginning of the performance. The first organ that is build for the consequent performance of a composition and that will blow all so far known temporally dimensions and therewith also sound dimensions. It is connected with the intention of optimism, someone's spirits and idealism which is equal to the creator of the big cathedrales.

Daily crono

Sleeping until 12.30 pm, some pasta for lunch, reading, blogging, sleeping and dreaming of complexity theory, meeting Kumar and driving up north to the Revere-beach (nice place, many seagulls (one with a just one leg)), then having dinner in the Chinatown eatery (the best and most original place to have Chinese food in Boston, in my opinion). Later, reading, drinking Jack Daniels at home.

Alun perin julkaistu kuukausikoosteessa "Blogs from May to June 2005".