Longest piece of music

cavedave

What is the longest piece of music you know?

I think the record could be Cage's "As Slow As Possible"

The current organ performance of the piece began in 2001 and is scheduled to have a duration of 639 years, ending in 2640.

But possibly Eno's "Bell Studies for The Clock of the Long Now" beats this. This would involve playing a different tune every day for the next ten thousand years.

So what is the longest tune you know of? And what do you think about very long songs?

cornbb

cavedave wrote: »

What is the longest piece of music you know?

I think the record could be Cage's "As Slow As Possible"



But possibly Eno's "Bell Studies for The Clock of the Long Now" beats this. This would involve playing a different tune every day for the next ten thousand years.

So what is the longest tune you know of? And what do you think about very long songs?

Well I thought it was "As Slow as Possible" until reading this, I didn't realise that Eno was trying to out-Cage Cage

I like long pieces of music, but I do like being able to do it in one sitting/lifetime...

Ensenata

Should be Magma... don't know how long, but they made recordings which lasted hours and hours. And else, just some other band from the 60's-70's.. those guys were too jacked up on every drugs available, they couldn't stop playing. :pac:

Undergod

Doesn't even come close :P

John

La Monte Young wins it for me on a purely conceptual point:

His works too are often of extreme length, conceived by Young as having no beginning and no end, existing before and after any particular performance.

Essentially every performance was just tapping into the music at that point in time, the piece is always playing and only sometimes are people listening