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ORGAN 2 /ASLSP (As Slow as Possible) is a musical piece by John Cage and the subject of the second-longest-lasting musical performance yet undertaken. Cage wrote it in 1987 for organ, as an adaptation of his 1985 composition ASLSP for piano. A performance of the piano version usually lasts 20 to 70 minutes.
Feb 6, 2024 · Organ2/ASLSP, ‘As Slow as Possible’ is a keyboard work written by American avant-garde composer John Cage in the mid-1980s. The score consists of eight pages of music, to be played on the piano or organ , as the name suggests, very slowly.
Feb 6, 2024 · (SOUNDBITE OF JOHN CAGE'S "ORGAN2/ASLSP") SCHMITZ: The wooden-framed organ that has played the composition since 2001, is a work in progress. It's being built as the piece goes on, with metal...
- Rob Schmitz
Sep 8, 2020 · 8 September 2020, 16:26. A chord changes on the St Burchardi Church organ for first time in 7 years. Picture: Getty. By Maddy Shaw Roberts. On Saturday, John Cage fans gathered at a German church to witness the change of one chord, in a 639-year-long performance. Here’s all you need to know about the world’s slowest composition.
- Maddy Shaw Roberts
Sep 7, 2020 · CNN — A musical composition designed to take well over 600 years to play has gone through its first chord change in seven years. Entitled “As Slow as Possible” (ASLSP), the composition by the...
Feb 6, 2024 · Today, in the German town of Halberstadt, an organ performing a piece of music by the late American composer John Cage struck a new chord for the first time in two years. Here it is. (SOUNDBITE OF JOHN CAGE'S "ORGAN2/ASLSP") KELLY: That's it. That is the new chord.
Sep 5, 2020 · Fans gather in a German church to hear the first new sound in composition, Organ/ASLSP, for six years. Associated Press. Sat 5 Sep 2020 13.15 EDT. Hundreds of fans have attended a special kind...