HALBERSTADT, Germany (AP) \u2014 A small organ in eastern Germany is the headliner of the world's slowest concert. It has been playing the same piece of music by composer John Cage at a glacial pace for nearly 25 years.<\/p>\n
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HALBERSTADT, Germany (AP) \u2014 A small organ in eastern Germany is the headliner of the world's slowest concert. It has been playing the same piece of music by composer John Cage at a glacial pace for nearly 25 years.<\/p>\n
HALBERSTADT, Germany (AP) \u2014 A small organ in eastern Germany is the headliner of the world\u2019s slowest concert. It has been playing the same piece of music by composer John Cage at a glacial pace for nearly 25 years.<\/p>\n
A rare chord change on Wednesday \u2014 from seven notes to eight once an A4 pipe is added \u2014 will represent the completion of about 4% of the 639-year endeavor of the John Cage Organ Project Halberstadt.<\/p>\n
While the project commenced in 2000, the performance began Sept. 5, 2001 \u2014 Cage\u2019s 89th birthday \u2014 with a silent pause that lasted until Feb. 5, 2003, when the first chords could actually be heard inside the medieval Burchardi Church in Halberstadt, Germany.<\/p>\n
The \u201cORGAN\u00b2\/ASLSP (As SLow aS Possible)\u201d composition is scheduled to finish on Sept. 4, 2640.<\/p>\n
An electric-powered blower system sends wind into the organ to create a continuous sound. A chord change, done manually, means that the sound of the organ pipes changes either because new sounds are added or existing sounds end.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Jeffrey Lependorf, executive director of the John Cage Trust in New York, said he was looking forward to comparing the difference between the sounds before and after Wednesday\u2019s chord change.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou feel it through your whole body,\u201d he told The Associated Press. \u201cIt resonates in this incredible way.\u201d<\/p>\n