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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's a big day for fans of experimental music and/or people with a lot of time on their hands, as the Associated Press reports that a chord just changed in a 639-year-long performance of an organ ...

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.

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GARDEN GROVE, Calif. -- There are few pipe organs in the world that have a nickname, a feminine pronoun and a Facebook fan page. The Hazel Wright organ -- just "Hazel," to her admirers -- was removed ...

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 ...