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Mute mammals being evacuated in the face of oncoming wildfire near Carson City, Nevada a few days ago.

The music is in the silence between the notes

Here’s a great story out of Germany:

HALBERSTADT, Germany — A relative rush of activity broke out this week in the world’s slowest and longest lasting concert as two new notes sounded in a piece of music that is taking a total 639 years to perform in its entirety.

The mind-boggling 639-year-long performance of a piece of music by US experimental composer John Cage (1912-1992) is entitled “organ2/ASLSP” or “As SLow aS Possible”. The performance began nearly three years ago on September 5, 2001, and is scheduled to last until 2639.

The first year and half of the performance was total silence, with the first chord — G-sharp, B and G-sharp — not sounding until February 2, 2003.

But things really got going yesterday as two additional Es, an octave apart, were sounded.

The could be the soundtrack for The Long Now Foundation.