P-List, a great 10 days, and the start of something really lengthy by many standards

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

geez, that was a great 10 days on the list, 9-1 to 9-10, in old naught'n'one:
a new MD read starting, and this from John Bailey (no relation, far's I know)
on 9-10:

Last Wednesday at midnight, in a former monastery at Halberstadt, Germany, a capacity audience attended the world premiere of Cage's "Organ2/ASLSP" that stands for As Long As Possible. This was originally a 20-minute piano piece, but re-written in 1987 for organ and slightly expanded, by 3,358,400 minutes or so. The piece runs for 639 years.

On Wednesday, all that was heard was the sound of the organ's bellows being inflated - a sound that will continue until January 5, 2003, when the first three actual notes will be sounded. Weights on the keyboard will sustain this chord until February 5, 2003, and so on, every month, until (war and Armageddon notwithstanding) the last chord on February 5, 2640.

let's hope the war on terror is won and its weapons beaten into plowshares long before then...

wondrously, the piece is still in progress:
http://www.john-cage.halberstadt.de/new/index.php?l=e