Hundreds of fans attended a special kind of musical happening Saturday at a church in Germany: a chord change in an organ piece that is supposed to last for an entirety of 639 years. The performance ...

View of an embroidered sheet of music from the piece Organ2/ASLSP by John Cage. Artist Sabine Groschup expands the embroidery with each change of sound. After two years, the sound of the slowest piece ...

The late American composer John Cage left it up to the performer to decide how long his work, Organ2/ASLSP, should take. A group in Germany is testing the limits. One might say "mission accomplished" ...

Organist Julian Lembke, center, changes a pipe of the organ of the John Cage organ project during a 'chord change' at the partially ruined Burchardi Church in Halberstadt, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 5, ...

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