7th Note - 631 to go

[neonlyte]

Play as Slow as Possible - John Cage.

The Seventh chord was struck today, eight years after the performance started.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7880793.stm

 

[The_Fool]

Once again, what is art? What is poetry? Is the creator the best judge of the work? Does the artist know the meaning of his or her work?

Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[NoJo]

Play as Slow as Possible - John Cage.

The Seventh chord was struck today, eight years after the performance started.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7880793.stm

Genius -- thanks...

Reminds me of Tom Lehrer musical tempo direction in one of his pieces: A Little Too Fast

 

[NoJo]

Once again, what is art? What is poetry? Is the creator the best judge of the work? Does the artist know the meaning of his or her work?

Inquiring minds want to know.

If it makes you

think,
laugh,
cry,
sigh,
smile wryly,
sneeze,
fart,
or cum

it's art

 

[xssve]

Actually it sounds more like a diminished Ninth.

 

[NoJo]

Actually it sounds more like a diminished Ninth.

I hear it as flat 9th -- is that the same thing?

 

[xssve]

Could be, I guess I do hear a Third in there, but it has a diminished feel, could be a flat nine, my ear is rusty, I was just trying to be clever.

It's confusing, sometimes a flat 9 is called a diminished 9, but I was thinking a diminished chord with an added Ninth.

I think heard I heard a flat Third in there at the end, might be an augmented 9.

 

[Anna_Malia75]

Play as Slow as Possible - John Cage.

The Seventh chord was struck today, eight years after the performance started.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7880793.stm

And I was in the bathroom. Dang.

 

[jomar]

And I was in the bathroom. Dang.

That's okay, you can catch it at anytime until the next note in 2010.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

That's truly great.

The chord sounds a lot like the horn on a Chicago & Northwestern F7 diesel train engine. I think those are G dim add 6.

My brother in law is autistic, but he can play on the piano the sound of every horn in every pro basketball stadium and hockey arena in North America--the horns they play after a goal is scored or to end the period. I tried to get him to do train horns too, but this one's the one one he ever played. I assume it's C&NW because that's the one he would have heard the most.