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Hundreds assemble as John Cage piece changes chord for the first time in 7 years
UPI ^ | 09/05/2020 | Christen McCurdy

Posted on 09/07/2020 8:25:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Hundreds of people flocked to a German church Saturday to hear an organ change chords for the first time in nearly seven years.

The experimental piece, which consists of eight pages of music meant to be played very slowly, is intended to last for an entirety of 639 years -- meaning it will end in 2640 if all goes according to plan.

The organ had been playing the same chord for six years and 11 months before Saturday's chord change

Best known for a composition called 4'33" -- which is just four minutes and 33 seconds of silence -- Cage wrote Organ/ASLSP in the 1980s.

(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: chordchange; johncage; sevenyears
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To: dfwgator

“this song is only 1 minute yet it felt like 2 hours”


41 posted on 09/07/2020 9:35:59 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Fungi

sounds like a funguy


42 posted on 09/07/2020 9:39:11 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: flaglady47

I = It, above. Typo.


43 posted on 09/07/2020 9:40:14 PM PDT by flaglady47 (Donald Trump, President for Life (heh, heh))
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To: BenLurkin

I played it at my wedding


44 posted on 09/07/2020 9:40:29 PM PDT by notted
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To: Fungi

“Put simply, for Cage, music was music and mushrooms were mushrooms. “

Wasn’t music. Was artistic wankery


45 posted on 09/07/2020 9:41:35 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: BenLurkin

From what chord did it change from, to?

Must be important?


46 posted on 09/07/2020 9:47:45 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: DouglasKC
World's laziest composer.

World’s stupidest fans and supporters not to mention church board who supported tying up the use of their parishioner’s organ essentially doing nothing for 600 years . . . on the ego centric idiocy of a talentless narcissistic conman. It’s the "emperor has no clothes" written in supposed artistic expression as this conman shows how vapid these elites really are. . . He did it before when with 4’33’’. . . and no one dared call him out because none of them wanted to be thought of as not ‘getting it.’

Now he’s got hundreds of idiots, supporters, coming out to hear a change of one organ chord droning to another chord droning, and none will stand up and pull the plug to cry "This is not music! It’s merely noise with no purpose except to hoodwink fools and idiots!"

47 posted on 09/07/2020 9:50:57 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot1)
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To: SunkenCiv
I've got a CD of John Cage around here somewhere. [and now the punchline] I started playing it when I bought it 20 years ago, and it still hasn't ended.

I heard about Cage from a friend so I ordered an album of his music from Amazon . . . I came home from work to find it had been delivered in 47 double semi-trucks loads and was piled around my house.

48 posted on 09/07/2020 10:03:58 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot1)
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The HOA is suing me...


49 posted on 09/07/2020 10:06:51 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot1)
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To: DouglasKC

He should have nade 4 33 longer.
Sergio Leone in his movie Once upon a time in the West used everyday sounds like a squeaking windmill and water drops on a surface as his musical score in the opening scene of the movie. There is something to silence and the ambient sounds, and songs derived from everyday sounds....
So insightful, guys...OK, now move those burgers and fries.


50 posted on 09/07/2020 10:06:59 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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Not for all the boxes of CDs filling the block. . .


51 posted on 09/07/2020 10:08:21 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot1)
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To: Getready

Nade = made. Typo alert.


52 posted on 09/07/2020 10:10:00 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Swordmaker

LOL!


53 posted on 09/07/2020 10:10:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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They’re suing me over my taste in music, getting an injunction to prevent me from playing my new CD album. . .


54 posted on 09/07/2020 10:10:24 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot1)
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To: BenLurkin
Best known for a composition called 4'33" -- which is just four minutes and 33 seconds of silence -- 

I thought of having a flash mob get together to publicly perform this. But then I checked Youtube and saw that it has been done multiple times already.

55 posted on 09/07/2020 10:11:37 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (In 2016 Obama ended America's 220 year tradition of peaceful transfer of power after an election.)
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To: BenLurkin

The only decent music being composed today is movie music.


56 posted on 09/07/2020 10:18:43 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: BenLurkin

I hear John Cage is negotiating with the Joe Biden Campaign to license 4’33” as Joe’s campaign Anthem. . . and Organ/ASLP as background for Biden for President Rallies and Speeches. Perfect for energizing the crowds. . . when they get larger than four . . .


57 posted on 09/07/2020 10:26:09 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot1)
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To: flaglady47
Cage was a source of inspiration for Phil Lesh and Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead. I'd liked the Dead. I didn't really get Cage though.
58 posted on 09/07/2020 10:26:54 PM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: wastedyears

Literally LOL

/waiting for the surprise In A Gadda Da Vida drum solo 15 years from now


59 posted on 09/07/2020 10:33:18 PM PDT by Salamander (The left screams out in pain as they stab you.)
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To: BenLurkin

This guy:

“That just saved me 639 years of listening.”


60 posted on 09/07/2020 10:35:23 PM PDT by Salamander (The left screams out in pain as they stab you.)
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