in Halberstadt, Germany, on 5 August--and I imagine you probably weren't--you missed a big musical event: the latest note-change in John Cage's centuries-spanning composition, Organ2/ASLSP As Slow As Possible. You can catch another note-change next year but, barring a miracle, no one alive today will be around to hear the last chord, due in 2640. The piece has been described as a musical apple tree, and since the planting was in 2001, the tree is still not much more than a sapling. But perhaps you can begin to imagine the "stretch" of the experience, "between clef and final fall", as you read this week's poem, "The Longest Song", a gently devout and humorous view of the art of time-stretching by the Caribbean poet and novelist Kei Miller.
from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Poem of the week: The Longest Song by Kei Miller
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