I have vague memories of a news story I heard a few years ago about some cathedral in Europe that, for shits & giggles apparently, is playing some piece of music on its new organ very slowly - like, over the course of a hundred years. The story mentioned that they haven’t installed all of the pipes yet, but no worry; one of them they won’t even need for 15 years.
It’s by John Cage. That should answer the question right there.
(For comparison, a couple of Cage’s more famous compositions consist of the orchestra not playing anything for four and a half minutes, and of a group of performers on stage randomly twiddling the dials of a couple of radios.)
For that reason, I’ve decided to wait until the CD comes out. In the meantime, I have to work out how I’m going to accommodate a 2.8 million compact disc set alongside my existing collection.
A home extension of dimensions 60’ x 60’ x 12’ should just about do it.
Had to figure it out- to store 128kps mp3’s (approx 1mb/min) would take only about 335 terabytes- not bad, now that you can get 1tb for 200 bucks, thats only $67k to store every second of 639 years. Of course, if you’re an audiophile you’ll want to hear those beautiful unchanging tones without the hiss of mp3- cd quality wav files @ 10mb/min would require 10 times that!
Well, the same could be said of Pink Floyd who have compositions featuring someone making themselves breakfast, the assorted noises of several small furry creatures having a party with a rambling Scot, someone fiddling the dial of a car radio, and an orchestra of clock alarms sounding simultaneously (not to mention their aborted attempt to create an entire album without using any musical instruments.) Despite all that they still came up with nice pieces of music.
I look forward to the thread: “The RIAA is suing me for being quiet in my room!”. Just now, as I was typing this, I didn’t say anything for a few seconds. Should I be looking for a lawyer?