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> Some tracks are long

I guess it's only talking about recorded tracks, but 13 hours is rookie numbers[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_as_Possible#Halberstad...

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Here's a recorded track that's 4,700 hours long:

https://www.discogs.com/release/3580802-Bull-Of-Heaven-209-B...

They have a track that's 5.5years long but it's only been partially released:

https://www.discogs.com/release/3580806-Bull-Of-Heaven-210-L...

Though that's still ~13,000 hours!

so, artists releasing generated music of such long duration, such that, you could be sure the artist had never listened to the full track themselves?

in particular, artists releasing tracks, boasting: they refuse to listen to their own tracks?

...this is the start of a genre, perfectly coinciding with the proliferation of AI.

I'm thinking,

Artist Name: Post-Sarcastic Beethoven

Album 1 Name: Do Not Listen

Album 2 Name: Never Mastered

What does this music sound like? Idk, it was procedurally generated by my M3 max last night, has a track length of 9001 hours, and I uploaded it to Soundcloud this morning. Don't have time to listen because I'm driving to work, let me know in the comments.

Ads are embedded IN the track, I got paid by several advertising networks for this. Soon this devious method of advertising becomes mainstream, and is known as an "Advertisement Rickroll" or a Ricky Ad for short...YouTube has already been preparing them for this behavior anyway!

There was a Hard Times article that had one of of my favorite musical jokes, it was something along the lines of "Stoner Metal Band Writes Hour Long Song in Only 5 Minutes".

There's a piano piece [1] which is quite short but the original indication by the composer is to repeat it more than a thousand times[2], meaning performances take more than 24 hours when they happen, which is understandably very seldom.

There's also things like John Cage's "As Slow as Possible", which there is a performance of ongoing now. It started in 2001 and you may want to rush to catch the end of it because it finishes in the year 2640.

[1] Maybe by Ravel- my memory and a quick googling is failing me right now

[2] It's some special slightly arbitrary-sounding number like 2347 or something

Not sure if that fits, but maybe the piano piece is the Philip Glass album "Solo Piano", which is variation on the same base melody thorough the whole album?

It’s not that one but Glass and Cage were both very influenced by it. This is going to really bug me now. The piece is not very well known but it’s by a very well-known composer either Ravel or Satie I’m almost sure.

Found it. Vexations by Satie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vexations

It’s fewer repititions than I had remembered at a mere 840.

When John Cage, David Tudor and others gave the first public performance, it took over 18 hours and they gave a refund to audience members of 5c for each twenty minutes they stayed for

Thank you for the reference, not too surprised it's Satie, he's a bit of an odd fellow.

And this being HN, I feel obligated to reference a very interesting talk by Mouse Reeve about Erik Satie during a "Strange Loop" conference:

https://youtu.be/ANYMii3Sypg?si=S_-9Z98NlawiiLm9

He's not necessarily taking about this, but titles can also be very long. I think of the Sufjan Stevens song "The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You're Going to Have to Leave Now, or, 'I Have Fought the Big Knives and Will Continue to Fight Them Until They Are Off Our Lands!'" which taught me, as a young script kiddie, that FAT32 has a total path length limit of 255 characters.

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