John Cage: Organ playing 639-year-long piece changes chord

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John Cage: Organ playing 639-year-long piece changes chord
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You can go here to see what it sounds like played on a more human time scale.

fuck you people that replied to this message, I would have fallen for it if you hadn't decided to post your comments

I remember the last time the chord changed too!

We should broadcast it into space in the event that an alien lifeform that perceives time much slower than we do can make sense of it.

Or an alien species on a similar timescale might pick it up and spend centuries debating the meaning. The changes would be big events. I'd love to be able to give others that kind of mystery.

Send a probe to proxima ceturai with some kind of tech to make the star itself pulse the signal so we can really broadcast it.