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Daily Question # 338

Featured  below  is  the  live  performance  of  a  piece  of  music . Why  would  this  piece  stand  the  test  of  time ?

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygy73C3Os1w]

The  composition  is  ‘Longplayer’ , the  world’s  longest  piece  of  music  composed  by  artist  Jem  Finer . It  is  a  1000  year  long  composition  and  is  played  out  by  computer  at  several  public  listening  posts  around  the  world . It  began  playing  on  31  December  1999  and  will  continue – without  repetition – until  the  last  moment  of  2999 . The  video  is  an  excerpt  from  the  1000  minute  performance  of  this  amazing  piece  which  went  live  a  week  back  at  the  Roundhouse  in  London . Read  more  here .

Quintilisambrosia  and  Rithwik  came  close , but  no  cigar .

2 Responses to “Daily Question # 338”

  1. LOngest piece of music..
    Will be running for like 639 days. composed by John cage.
    First part also known as “as slow as possible”

  2. Rithwik says:

    The piece by John Cage is called As Slow As Possible – The first notes in the longest and slowest piece of music in history, designed to go on for 639 years, are being played on a German church organ.They settled on 639 years because the Halberstadt organ was 639 years old in the year 2000.

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