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NEW CHORD STRUCK IN WORLD'S LONGEST PIECE OF MUSIC

AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE - A new chord was scheduled to sound in the world's
slowest and longest lasting concert that is taking a total 639 years to
perform. The abandoned Buchardi church in Halberstadt, eastern Germany,
is the venue for a mind-boggling 639-year-long performance of a piece of
music by US experimental composer John Cage (1912-1992).

Entitled "organ2/ASLSP" (or "As SLow aS Possible"), the performance
began on September 5, 2001 and is scheduled to last until 2639. The
first year and half of the performance was total silence, with the first
chord -- G-sharp, B and G-sharp -- not sounding until February 2, 2003.
Then in July 2004, two additional Es, an octave apart, were sounded and
are scheduled to be released later this year on May 5. But at 5:00 pm
(1600 GMT) on Thursday, the first chord was due to progress to a second
-- comprising A, C and F-sharp -- and is to be held down over the next
few years by weights on an organ being built especially for the project.

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