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The music is being played at a church in Germany, and, well, it really lives up to its name. Since it started, there have been just 11 chord changes, and the next one isn't scheduled until July 2012.
Buổi hòa nhạc đang được diễn ra tại một nhà thờ ở Đức, và, ôi, thực sự nó sống trên cái tên của nó. Kể từ khi bắt đầu, nó chỉ thay đổi có 11 hợp âm (co), và cung (co) tiếp theo chưa có lịch trình cho đến tháng 7 năm 2012.
Thật là ấn tượng về lối hòa âm này ! Một bản nhạc có tên là "as slow as possible" sẽ kéo dài 639 năm, bắt đầu từ năm 2001 và sẽ chấm dứt vào năm 2640 - Bảo đảm rằng không một ai trong chúng ta sẽ nghe xong bản nhạc này. Có lẽ ông nhạc sĩ John Cage người đã soạn ra các nốt nhạc này nếu còn sống ông cũng không nghe được trọn các cung nhạc do chính mình soạn ra. Các bạn hãy xem đây, video clip sau sẽ cho bạn thấy cách hòa âm một bản nhạc mà không cần người đánh đàn.
As Slow As Possible
August 29, 2008 at 1:39 PMJohn Cage’s organ composition “As Slow As Possible” is, at the risk of sounding obvious, intended to be played slowly. Its 1987 premier lasted twenty-nine minutes. A subsequent performance lasted seventy-one minutes. Some musicians have made it last for over eight hours. But a few years after Cage’s death in 1992, a group of musicologists, theologians, philosophers and musicians began to meet regularly in order to discuss and ponder aloud just how slow “As Slow As Possible” could be.
The answer: 639 years.
They came up with this number after much slow, careful consideration. Halberstadt cathedral’s famous Blockwerk organ—granddaddy of the modern organ with its twelve-note claviature—was completed in 1361 (639 years counting back from the year 2000). Therefore the piece should last as long as the modern twelve-key organ has. This made the town of Halberstadt, in eastern Germany, a shoe-in for the location. The venue is the medieval church of St. Burchardi, which, since being built around 1050, has served as a monastery, a barn, a distillery, an abandoned building and an East German pigsty. It has been cleaned up, though. Quite nicely. And in the middle of the empty church sits an organ. It is rather a makeshift sort of instrument, built specifically for this project, currently fitted with only the pipes required for the current notes being played. Taking 639 years to perform a piece tends to lend itself to such flexibility. An electric bellows sits in the organ’s left transept. The right transept houses a wooden frame with six pipes. The pedals producing the sound are held down by weights. And that’s about it.
It was surely an auspicious moment, on September 5, 2001, as the performance commenced, albeit a tad anticlimactic. The piece begins with silence, you see. Several counts’ worth. This is, after all, the composer who brought us the famous, soundless “4’33” composition. From September 5th to February 2003, the only sound was the low whoosh of the electric bellows as they filled with air in preparation for striking that first chord.
Finally, on February 5, 2003, it happened. The first chord. Then, on July 5, 2004, notes were added and the tone changed. January 5, 2006 saw a chord change. (Changes always occur on the fifth day of the month, in honor of Cage and his birth date.)
And here’s where it gets exciting. On July 5, 2008, the weights holding down the organ pedals were shifted. Two more organ pipes had been added alongside the four installed and at 3:33pm local time, the sixth chord change in the piece occurred. The crowd of 1000 gathered for the event murmured appreciatively at the increased tonal complexity. Then, thirty seconds later, upon realizing that was it, that was all that was going to happen that day, that month, they commenced a spattering of uncertain applause that grew heartier as officials confirmed the full change had actualized.
How whimsical, how Zen, to ponder such slowness in comparison to our fast-paced world. Each movement of “As Slow As Possible” (officially titled the less catchy “ORGAN2/ASLSP”) lasts roughly seventy-one years. Think about it. The mind-expanding nature of such an endeavor reminds me of last year’s British cheddar cheese site (www.cheddarvision.tv) where a webcam allowed you to watch a fifty-pound cheddar age, real time, 24/7. In fact, that’s what the John Cage Project website needs. Think of all the classical music people out there who could tune in to listen to this performance. To say you’ve heard part of this performance, in real time. And not have to pay the air and train fare for a trip to rural eastern Germany for a ten minute visit, because, face it, you’re probably not going to want to listen to that drone for much longer than that.
The point of the John Cage ORGAN2/ASLSP Project, its creators argue, is to challenge our precepts of time, of speed. Challenge the inexorable acceleration of the world’s pace. If it, in turn, challenges the patience of classical music and/or John Cage detractors everywhere, well, that’s not a bad thing. In fact, that’s precisely what John Cage would have wanted.
If you go to the project’s website, you can hear the tone currently being played. It’s a rather horrible sound to sustain—like a dial tone on steroids. Those living nearby have complained, which, in truth, doesn’t surprise me. In fact, the concept of never hearing silence in your home in your lifetime is daunting, another issue that merits pondering by philosophers and musicologists. (They have ample time to do it. 632 more years, actually.) You can follow the exciting action on the score on their website, which is marked with a chronology. According to it, on November 5th you can see the next change—the release of a quarter note. I myself am saving my pennies up in order to witness the Big Kahuna—an entirely new chord, on July 5, 2012.
The performance is scheduled to end in 2640.
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