No matter whether you prefer jazz, country, or rock and roll, most interesting songs have a bunch of chord changes that come and go throughout the bop’s roughly three-minute runtime. Those tuning into ...

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 ...

The late American composer John Cage left it up to the performer to decide how long his work, Organ2/ASLSP, should take. A group in Germany is testing the limits. One might say "mission accomplished" ...

In 1987, the legendary experimental composer John Cage published "ORGAN2/ASLSP (As Slow As Possible)," a piece for organ designed to be played, you guessed it, as slow as possible. It was an ...

View of an embroidered sheet of music from the piece Organ2/ASLSP by John Cage. Artist Sabine Groschup expands the embroidery with each change of sound. After two years, the sound of the slowest piece ...

HALBERSTADT, Germany — Before American avant-garde composer John Cage died in 1992, one of the only instructions he left for those performing his piece Organ2/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible) was, as its ...