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John Cage's 639-Year Concert: A Composition of Unpredictable Sounds and Extreme Slowness
TLDR John Cage's composition 433 is not just silence, but rather four minutes and 33 seconds of unpredictable, unplanned sounds in the environment. His 639-year concert, called organ squared/ASL SP, is a composition of unpredictable sounds played as slowly as possible on an organ, resulting in chord changes and a unique listening experience.
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John Cage's 639-year concert is a composition called 433, which consists of four minutes and 33 seconds of silence.
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John Cage's composition 433 is not just silence, but rather four minutes and 33 seconds of unpredictable, unplanned sounds in the environment, which led to his creation of the 639 year long concert called organ squared/ASL SP (as slow as possible).
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John Cage's 639 year long concert called organ squared/ASL SP (as slow as possible) is a composition of unpredictable, unplanned sounds in the environment, not just silence.
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John Cage's composition "ASLSP" is meant to be played as slowly as possible on an organ, allowing for individual interpretation by the artist and resulting in chord changes and a unique listening experience.
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John Cage's composition "ASLSP" has been interpreted in a live performance at Halberstadt's Cathedral, where the organ piece is played as slowly as possible for 639 years, starting from 2000, as a homage to Cage's idea of extreme slowness.
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The performance of John Cage's ASLSP in Halberstadt's Cathedral has been ongoing since 2000 and includes timed chord changes, with the most recent one occurring on February 5th, 2022.
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John Cage's composition is not played at regular intervals, but rather with specific note durations, so that the entire piece will end 639 years after it started, and the performance of the composition in Halberstadt's Cathedral is no longer on a human time scale and cannot be played by a single person.
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