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

["gareth.whitcock" <gareth.whitcock@ntlworld.com>]

He he - nice one Rick!
Isn't there a millenium piece of computer generated music designed to run 
for a thousand years?
I think the current computer is in Greeenwich, London somewhere, maybe at 
the royal observatory. I heard a bit of it on the radio - it actually 
sounds 
good.


Gareth

>
>
> Today,   I created a piece of music that lasts for one sample length (of 
> very loud noise) in 24 bit, 96 khz format.
> I call the piece  "AFSTSP"  (As FaST aS Possible) (for John Cage, Link 
> Wray, Elliot Smith and Lou Rawls)
>
> Today,   I also started the first day of performance of the Cage piece 
> "4 minutes 33 seconds".
>
> I've remixed the piece and I am calling it the "4 trillion years, 33 
> billion days MEGA Mix"    I will be maximixing it to Red Book CD
> standards and will be releasing it as a 1.3 trillion DVD,  5.1 surround 
> sound Box set   ($450,000,000,000 on CD Baby).
> I've decided to use only the best acid free stock for the 50,000 page 
> liner notes which will, of course, be blank.
>
> Regretfully I will not live to here the turning of the first page of 
>music 
> in that performance but someone had to do it.
>
>
> TFIC (Tongue Firmly In Cheek),   Rick
>