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johncomic...it's stranger than we can imagine. And ditto the human mind. To wit:
as per this story I saw here:
A "song" is currently underway in Germany which is scheduled to take 638 years to perform -- the slowest longest song in the history of the world. It's being played on an organ by leaving weights on the keys and moving the weights every year or so. "The performance began on September 5, 2001 and is scheduled to last until 2639. The first year and a half of the performance was total silence, with the first chord -- G-sharp, B and G-sharp -- not sounding until February 2, 2003."
The organ the song is being played on hasn't even been completely built yet. They started with the pipes of the first few notes, knowing that they have years to get the other pipes built before they'll be needed.
My thoughts are numerous and heterogeneous:
-- Art is supposed to communicate. What sort of communication do you get out of music that no one will [or can] ever hear?!
-- Just because no one understands it doesn't mean it's not worth doing.
-- Now that's what I call visionary.
-- Isn't this kind of presuming, like, a lot? That the instrument will last that long? That the technology that runs it will continue to exist? That the culture that allows the organ to play will continue to allow it? That they'll always be able to find someone who can be bothered to keep going in and moving the weights? That it won't all be destroyed in the barbarian [or alien] invasion? That Wal-Mart won't buy the property and bulldoze it for a parking lot? What society has ever persisted uninterrupted for that long?
-- Huh.
-- all of the above
as per this story I saw here:
A "song" is currently underway in Germany which is scheduled to take 638 years to perform -- the slowest longest song in the history of the world. It's being played on an organ by leaving weights on the keys and moving the weights every year or so. "The performance began on September 5, 2001 and is scheduled to last until 2639. The first year and a half of the performance was total silence, with the first chord -- G-sharp, B and G-sharp -- not sounding until February 2, 2003."
The organ the song is being played on hasn't even been completely built yet. They started with the pipes of the first few notes, knowing that they have years to get the other pipes built before they'll be needed.
My thoughts are numerous and heterogeneous:
-- Art is supposed to communicate. What sort of communication do you get out of music that no one will [or can] ever hear?!
-- Just because no one understands it doesn't mean it's not worth doing.
-- Now that's what I call visionary.
-- Isn't this kind of presuming, like, a lot? That the instrument will last that long? That the technology that runs it will continue to exist? That the culture that allows the organ to play will continue to allow it? That they'll always be able to find someone who can be bothered to keep going in and moving the weights? That it won't all be destroyed in the barbarian [or alien] invasion? That Wal-Mart won't buy the property and bulldoze it for a parking lot? What society has ever persisted uninterrupted for that long?
-- Huh.
-- all of the above
