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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: a fool in paradise

LOL

/not sorry I clicked this thread


61 posted on 09/07/2020 10:35:55 PM PDT by Salamander (The left screams out in pain as they stab you.)
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To: M1903A1

It made me miss the days of modem handshakes

/not


62 posted on 09/07/2020 10:36:28 PM PDT by Salamander (The left screams out in pain as they stab you.)
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To: BenLurkin

What is the new chord!
What was the old chord!
We have to know!


63 posted on 09/07/2020 10:38:02 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: Swordmaker

LOL


64 posted on 09/07/2020 10:38:29 PM PDT by Salamander (The left screams out in pain as they stab you.)
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To: Getready

Ennio Morricone?


65 posted on 09/07/2020 10:40:38 PM PDT by Salamander (The left screams out in pain as they stab you.)
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To: BenLurkin

Ughhhhh... Such stupid, pointless, worthless decadence; a mockery of art and beauty. And it’s disgusting that a church is using its space meant for worshipping God on this meaninglessness.


66 posted on 09/07/2020 10:44:37 PM PDT by An Appeal to Heaven
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To: Swordmaker

Brilliant! Couldn’t have said it better myself.


67 posted on 09/07/2020 10:50:48 PM PDT by An Appeal to Heaven
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To: Fiji Hill
Oddly enough some really good music is coming out of video games.

Baba Yetu from Civilization IV is a good example.

The Lord's Prayer, in Swahili sung by the Soweto Gospel Choir with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Such beauty. And it will get stuck in your head.

68 posted on 09/07/2020 10:58:25 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (And lead us not into hysteria, but deliver us from the handwashers. Amen!)
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To: BenLurkin

Slap paint on a canvas. Toss a few notes and chords with endless repetition on sheet music. Modern (minimalist) music imitates modern art. The emperor has no clothes.


69 posted on 09/07/2020 10:59:02 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: BenLurkin

When I was in a certain NYC conservatory in the 80s I went to Schirmers Music and found a copy of the sheet music for “4:33.” It was literally a cover reading “John Cage” and underneath “4:33” . There was nothing inside. I believe it cost $15 bucks at the time.


70 posted on 09/07/2020 11:01:57 PM PDT by Fernet Branca
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To: Chengdu54
I saw a Cage performance back around 1973 in Ann Arbor. Damned if I can recall any of it.

Is it already over? Or are you writing this as a brief (half-century-long) intermission comes to an end?

Regards,

71 posted on 09/07/2020 11:05:08 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Salamander

...In A Gadda Da Vida

I did a 72 minute remix of IAGDV once.


72 posted on 09/07/2020 11:08:30 PM PDT by ADemocratNoMore (The Fourth Estate is now the Fifth Column)
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To: ADemocratNoMore

I beg of you, please do not share it with me.

:D


73 posted on 09/07/2020 11:12:37 PM PDT by Salamander (The left screams out in pain as they stab you.)
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To: BenLurkin

>639 years

639 years ?

Meh !

Anybody can download a copy of Paulstretch and load any .wav file they want. The hyperstretch mode allows you to stretch up to 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 times. That’s 1,902,587,519 years for a one minute song.

http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/


74 posted on 09/07/2020 11:17:15 PM PDT by ADemocratNoMore (The Fourth Estate is now the Fifth Column)
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To: jmacusa; MinuteGal

“I didn’t really get Cage though.”

I’m not sure hardly anyone did, lol. I suspect he had a fan club based more on his rather innovative musical schemes rather than the actual product that was produced, and amongst those who wanted to be part of the “in” crowd, claiming to understand what Cage was up to. I will say he was flamboyant. Kind of the P.T. Barnum of avant garde music.


75 posted on 09/08/2020 2:03:37 AM PDT by flaglady47 (Donald Trump, President for Life (heh, heh))
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To: alexander_busek
Is it already over? Or are you writing this as a brief (half-century-long) intermission comes to an end?

You misunderstand. . . It’s not an intermission, it’s a rest; a period of instrumental silence in the performance. It’s written in the score as: 47 yrs, 4’ 33” and then a new chord in a diminished 7th. Very dramatic.

76 posted on 09/08/2020 2:05:42 AM 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

I guess I have to be the one to ask the question. Why?


77 posted on 09/08/2020 3:00:59 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: BenLurkin

I would imagine that there were snails dancing in the aisles.


78 posted on 09/08/2020 4:52:14 AM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis deplorable. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE)
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To: BenLurkin

Seriously, people have run out of things to do.


79 posted on 09/08/2020 5:18:21 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: BenLurkin

Furniture music. Eric Satie would be proud.


80 posted on 09/08/2020 6:12:24 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is More often surrendered than seized.p.)
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