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Organ playing 639-year-long piece changes chord

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Re: Organ playing 639-year-long piece changes chord

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The orbits of the Galilean moons form a perfectly-tuned triple octave, plus a slightly flat minor tenth (1:2:4:9.4). After a slight glissando, they will likely settle in a quadruple octave (1:2:4:8) and stop there, in about 1.5 Gyr. It's a cross-cutting phenomenon that the natural universe likes to self-arrange itself into chords [4]

https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.01106 ("Long-term evolution of the Galilean satellites: the capture of Callisto into resonance")

via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galilean_moons#Origin_and_evol...

Re: Organ playing 639-year-long piece changes chord

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One quip: this piece is not "as slow as possible". One could write a piece of "music" that is one note to be played at the heat death of the universe, or a piece that is silence forever. It's fun to play with the definition of "music" like John Cage did his whole career, but the title of his piece is technically incorrect, the worst kind of incorrect.

Re: Organ playing 639-year-long piece changes chord

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> His most famous piece, 4'33", is designed to be played by any combination of instruments - but musicians are instructed not to play them.

This is even better played back from a digital recording. You need those gold audio cables to truly appreciate the silence.

Re: Organ playing 639-year-long piece changes chord

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That was a the catchiest part so far but I am waiting for the Marshmello remix, which he’s releasing promptly on the 2640 Ryan Seacrest New Year’s show

I wonder how Seacrest feels about already being "the old guy who has hosted New Year's since forever".
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