Friday, March 12, 2010

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639 CONCERT year

"The music I prefer, even more than mine is that we hear when we are silent. " - John Cage







John Cage (1912-1992) was an American composer and instrumentalist who revolutionized contemporary music. In many of his works was influenced by Zen philosophy, applied to music. Use in their works interminable silences, sounds disconnected, casual and atonal with a volume, duration and timbre of his many compositions aleatorios.Uno was the particular work called Organ 2 written in 1987 and which the author specified an indeterminate tempo "should be played as slowly as possible "(" As Slow As Possible "). From that time musicians and philosophers discussed how slow this work is to be played. Cage could have been referring to the maximum time to hold the touch of a human being until you drop or lose your patience. From this idea, February 5, 1997, Diane Luchese completed the interpretation of Organ 2 continuously for 14 hours and 56 minutes. But then discussed if we really had to play at this tempo, or if you had to respect the life of a human being or life of an organ. From this it was decided to perform the work again but this time taking into account the average life of a modern organ, bearing in mind that the first organ was built in the cathedral of Halberstadt in 1361. So time was chosen as the time from then until the start date of his performance, nothing more and nothing less than 639 years.For .... everything goes as planned, an organ was built especially for perform the work, protected by a crystal to reduce the volume of continuous sound. It also has some bags sand to hold down the keys. The organ is located in the Cathedral of Halberstadt.El September 5, 2001, coinciding with the 89th anniversary of the late composer began to perform the work. But the court did not launch its first sound until 20 months after the start of the score as a body 2 begins with a long silence. Until the February 5, 2003 I can hear is the first nota.El 5 February this year the St. Burchardi church in Halberstadt, Germany, sold all locations to an audience who came to witness the execution of a single note your body, this book is intended end on 5 September of 2640.

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