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John Cage: Organ playing 639-year-long piece changes chord (www.bbc.com)

submitted 5 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago

You can go here to see what it sounds like played on a more human time scale.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago

You utter piece of shit.

[-] speck@kbin.social 27 points 5 months ago

The preview gave it away, but I could sense that trap coming anyhow

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

Admiral Ackbar over here

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 14 points 5 months ago

dQw4w spotted

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

gXcQ here

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 14 points 5 months ago

XcQ, link stays blue

[-] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago

fuck you people that replied to this message, I would have fallen for it if you hadn't decided to post your comments

[-] And009@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 5 months ago

Link not working

[-] refurbishedrefurbisher 20 points 5 months ago

Doom metal composers be like: "Too quick"

[-] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

I remember the last time the chord changed too!

[-] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

https://www.aslsp.org/das-projekt.html

This website has a listing of all changes in the piece from start to finish with dates and a recording for the chords that have already played!

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago

We should broadcast it into space in the event that an alien lifeform that perceives time much slower than we do can make sense of it.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Or an alien species on a similar timescale might pick it up and spend centuries debating the meaning. The changes would be big events. I'd love to be able to give others that kind of mystery.

Send a probe to proxima ceturai with some kind of tech to make the star itself pulse the signal so we can really broadcast it.

[-] catch22@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Look at all the people that actually came to witness this...🫤

[-] Thteven@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Beats what I did today.

[-] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

What did you do today?

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Who did you do today?

this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2024

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