Re: 639 Year Long Concert - Cage Composition - "ASLSP"

[Travis Hartnett <travishartnett@gmail.com>]

Stewart Copeland had some piece on "They Rhythmitist" which was built
on some sample of a big rock being hit by (I believe) aborigines in
Australia.  They do this as part of some ceremony every (I believe) 17
years.  In the liner notes he said that in theory, this could be
thought of as a v-e-r-y slow tempo track.

TravisH

On 1/7/06, Kris Hartung <khartung@cableone.net> wrote:
>
> Also, this is their interpretation of "As slow as possible"? This could 
>take
> a lot longer than 639 years if we really consider "the possible".  It 
>could
> take infinitely long depending on what school of math you subscribe to. 
>:)
> Better yet, we could apply Cantor's principle of diagonalization and
> multiple levels of infinity and say that each beat take an infinite 
>amount
> of time, adding other beats (sets of infinity). Hence, let's just start 
>that
> first beat of silence on the first section and call out part done.
>
> Kris
>