Featured below is the live performance of a piece of music . Why would this piece stand the test of time ?
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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 .
LOngest piece of music..
Will be running for like 639 days. composed by John cage.
First part also known as “as slow as possible”
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.