John Cage : As Slow As Possible

[BlackLake]

I find this a little bizarre, but fun to discuss:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_As_Possible

In a nutshell. The performance of this song started in 2001, an will end in 2640. It began with a 2 year "rest".

Think of the download time on that mp3

I'd like to hear your thoughts.

 

[iScott]

Kinda cool. Buy why?
And the pause at the beginning that lasted a year and a half is totally cheating.

 

[BlackLake]

The original version for organ lasted 20 mins, so that "pause" was probably really only a few beats.

 

[Infernal Affair]

Kinda cool. Buy why?

This reminds me of a post in another John Cage related thread:

A Surrealism Professor has written his final exam, and the class is about to sit down and take it. He has told them that it is one essay, and that they will have the entire time to work on it. The students are nervous, because Surrealism is a vast subject and, by it's nature, not bound to any normal conventions, so this essay is sure to be headache inducing.
It is the day of the test, the students have shown up with their pens and their bottles of Advil. The professor passes out the final: The one question is "Why?"
When the dust had settled, there was one student who got an A+.
His answer?
"Why Not"

 

[jmorbita]

wouldn't it be great if an altar boy accidentally fell on the organ an then they'd have to start all over again...

 

[mjolnir]

John Cage is a strange strange man.

His 4:33 seems stranger to me though.

 

[Benjamin Strange]

I don't have time to listen to this one.