>>Hundreds of people flocked to a German church Saturday to hear an organ change chords for the first time in nearly seven years.
Starved for live entertainment they are yes yes
Musicians make good mathematcians. Not generally the other way around. Somewhere in this guy’s history is a large- intergenerational trust set up for him by his wealthy parents. The nature of his work did not lend itself to “concerts” that a public audience might want to sit through. Certainly not the 639 year’s long silence with a changed chord every now and then— although can picture the kind of German audience would show up to hear... one chord.
And yet he had inspiration from melodic music composers, especially contrapuntal. In all this-— a non-professional diagnosis would at a minimum be Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (which he would not like since he was all about ordering/organizing chance events and musical notes). An odd duck, in short. Give me Andre Segovia or Carlos Montoya.
I played it at my wedding
From what chord did it change from, to?
Must be important?
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.
The only decent music being composed today is movie music.
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 . . .
What is the new chord!
What was the old chord!
We have to know!
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.
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.
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.
>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/
I guess I have to be the one to ask the question. Why?
I would imagine that there were snails dancing in the aisles.
Seriously, people have run out of things to do.
Furniture music. Eric Satie would be proud.
I wonder if the composer thought there was something special, or prophetic about 639 years.