{"id":10943,"date":"2020-09-10T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10943"},"modified":"2020-09-14T16:29:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T23:29:40","slug":"as-slow-as-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/09\/10\/as-slow-as-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"As Slow As Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2020\/09\/john-cage-organ-concert-germany\/?utm_campaign=arts&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=channel-arts-distribution-new\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from OBSERVER<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">John Cage\u2019s 639-Year-Long Organ Concert Attracts a Crowd in Germany<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/author\/helen-holmes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Helen Holmes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2013 ASLSP note change\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bSoH4_valAs?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Artists of many different mediums have always loved to play with the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2019\/11\/met-costume-gala-time-theme\/\" target=\"_blank\">concepts of time and duration<\/a>, and legendary\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2014\/01\/there-will-never-be-silence-scoring-john-cages-433-at-the-museum-of-modern-art\/\" target=\"_blank\">composer and conceptualist John Cage<\/a>\u00a0is no different. On September 5, 2001, one of the composer\u2019s final projects was launched to the world: the slowest concert ever composed.\u00a0<em>Organ2\/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible)\u00a0<\/em>is a musical piece by Cage that was originally conceived in 1987 and which is expected to take 639 years to be completed, meaning that if things proceed on schedule, the performance will come to an end in 2640. Over the weekend, on Saturday, spectators gathered in Halberstadt, Germany\u2019s St. Burchardi Church to bear witness to the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sound-change-john-cage-639-year-long-song-germany-1055846\/\" target=\"_blank\">first sonic change<\/a>\u00a0in Cage\u2019s composition to take place in seven years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Specifically, since 2013, an organ in the aforementioned church has been playing the same note in Cage\u2019s composition. In order for the organ\u2019s notes to change, two new pipes, playing the notes g sharp and e, were added to the apparatus on Saturday in front of an audience of hundreds and captured for remote viewers in a livestream hosted by the John Cage ASLSP project which lasted a grand total of four hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2020\/09\/john-cage-organ-concert-germany\/?utm_campaign=arts&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=channel-arts-distribution-new\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at OBSERVER<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from OBSERVER John Cage\u2019s 639-Year-Long Organ Concert Attracts a Crowd in Germany By\u00a0Helen Holmes Artists of many different mediums have always loved to play with the\u00a0concepts of time and duration, and legendary\u00a0composer and conceptualist John Cage\u00a0is no different. On September 5, 2001, one of the composer\u2019s final projects was launched to the world: the slowest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}