John Cage: Organ playing 639-year-long piece changes chord
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You can go here to see what it sounds like played on a more human time scale.
You utter piece of shit.
The preview gave it away, but I could sense that trap coming anyhow
Admiral Ackbar over here
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Doom metal composers be like: "Too quick"
I remember the last time the chord changed too!
https://www.aslsp.org/das-projekt.html
This website has a listing of all changes in the piece from start to finish with dates and a recording for the chords that have already played!
We should broadcast it into space in the event that an alien lifeform that perceives time much slower than we do can make sense of it.
Or an alien species on a similar timescale might pick it up and spend centuries debating the meaning. The changes would be big events. I'd love to be able to give others that kind of mystery.
Send a probe to proxima ceturai with some kind of tech to make the star itself pulse the signal so we can really broadcast it.
Look at all the people that actually came to witness this...🫤
Beats what I did today.
What did you do today?
Who did you do today?