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Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name

4/3/2025, 7:00:08 PM

Public

John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnessed a chord change

Link: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-were-we-all-doing-here-my-600-mile-trip-to-hear-an-organ-play-a-d-natural/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43535937

What were we all doing here? My 600-mile trip to hear an organ play a D natural

In the year 2000, in a small east German town, work began on the construction of an organ that had one purpose: to perform John Cage’s ORGAN2/ASLSP (1987) for precisely 639 years. The late avant-garde composer’s only instruction for the piece was to play the piece ‘as slowly as possible’. And so in 2001 –

www.spectator.co.uk · The Spectator

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