Seriously, what the heck?


Why would anybody even think about doing this? I love a nice long song as much as the next person, but 639 years?!?!?

What if they forget to keep going in the future? Then it was all for nothing...


(Yes, this news clip is old but I thought it was still ridiculous.)

This is about music (or the lack thereof). Not a spam post.


I'm a big fan of ambient music. But I would think that 639 years is a bit too extreme for pretty much anyone. For one thing, I won't be able to hear the end of the song; and nobody else alive now will either unless they discover some way to live that long or whatever. Also, how are they going to keep playing it? I mean, the only thing I can think of is to have a machine/robot do it since humans wouldn't be able to last long enough even if they were taking turns.


It's just ridiculous.

Maybe the person / idea was really worth it? To quote Secondhand Serenade AKA John Vesely;

"I wish my life were this song,
Coz songs they never die
I could write for years & years;
Never have to cry...
I could show you how I feel
Without saying a word..."

Secondhand Serenade - The Last Song Ever.

Doomlet, Silky: Final warnings on this before a ban insues. Pointless posts that are not contributing to the threads and are just long lines of periods or other non-contributing items will not be tolerated.

Thanks, Kay.



Well, it said originally the song was only 20 mins...

What happened? They just felt like just because the song's title is As Slow As Possible that they just pop out with 639 years?

I guess so. The idea was from John Cage, and that's the guy that created the 4'33 mins of silence for a song.

I think this guy understood the term creativity.

Would anyone want to listen to either the silence or the 639 year song? No. These are rare cases where we are reminded why writers of music are called ARTISTS.


btw, i thought that article said they would only play the first three notes. (one year and a half or something) ?

Yeah, you read it right. But they didn't say what they would do after that. I don't think.


I guess you're right. On an artistic/creative level, the concept of it is kind of interesting.

But in practicality, not so much. At least for me anyway.

aye aye Capt. Kay!

anyway, why would some mayor volenteer his town to undergo such torture. honestly, it would be like a blowhorn playing throwout your town. i woldn't be suprised if they were all tone deaf to that note once it changed


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I'm not sure how loud the organ/blown horn/whatever they got going right now is that loud. Yeah you could probably hear it outside the church but I don't it's heard over the whole town. *shrug* Who knows?

According to the article the reason 639 years was chosen was because that is the estimated life of the organ they will be playing the song on.

Yeah. Saw that too. You'd think organs wouldn't last that long; like, they would rust out or something by then. But I guess if you keep something like that in good condition, it'll last quite awhile.

Think of it like this.

No matter what happens in the world outside of this town in the next 639 revolutions around the Sun...


There will always be music. Forever. In 639 years or less.

Just watch, it'll turn out that the sonic waves coming from the organ are actually capable of blocking the radiation from nuclear fall-out and what we find utterly ridiculous will save all the inhabitants.

"You know you're bad at life when..."

You get sued for plagiarism on a song of silence.

or

You're suing someone for plagiarism because someone made a song that is supposed to last 639 years and it has lots of silence in it.

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"You know you're bad at life when..."

You get sued for plagiarism on a song of silence.

or

You're suing someone for plagiarism because someone made a song that is supposed to last 639 years and it has lots of silence in it.

lol yeah, that's pretty bad.