Visitors and journalists have been coming to see the organ in the Burchardi Church to witness the sound change in the world's slowest piece of music. Matthias Bein/dpa Twenty-two years into the ...

HALBERSTADT – 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 ...

On Saturday, hundreds flocked to a German church to hear the chord change in the intended 639-year performance of John Cage’s organ composition, “ORGAN2/ASLSP,” or As Slow As Possible, The Associated ...

St. Burchiardi church's custom organ has been playing a composition titled "As Slow As Possible" for 19 years. The piece will take 639 years to unfold. Stay tuned for another chord change in 2022.

The YouTube clip below shows Heilbron in action at the organs. It illustrates that his organ playing is far removed from church organ recitals or improvisations by an organ virtuoso. Instead, ...

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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, ...

HALBERSTADT, Germany (AP) — 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 ...