The 639 Year Longest Song Ever
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
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My numb brain actually thought we were going to hear the song for 639 years
Actually you will.
Me too
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Sara & birds I’m not a girl... lol
Same
Ah yes, the longest song ever:
lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to
Coincidentally I am listening to one right now
@@ZeusAbhijeet coincidently, every one is listening to that right now
@@satvikshri Noice
It will last far longer than 600 years.
I know this is a joke but 64,000 hours (yes) isn't that long compared to this
"You hit a sour note about 200 years back, Doug! Let's take it from the top..."
Young people those days you can't trust them the note was supposed to start at 4:40 am but it didn't start till 5:40 a.m.
frank cusack the next year
Hit the same bad note 3 times in a row, then you can call it jazz.
"Not quite my tempo"
Geez sorry
"If you listen to a song, your heartbeat will sync up with the beat"
Me: *listens to 4'33"*
ded
There is actually a beat, even if there aren't notes. It's just a song of rests.
@@shinyshinyyshinyyy2197 bet
Dead
*D E A D*
Executioner: "Do you have a last request?"
Me: "I would like to play a song".
**proceeds to live forvever**
@@not_pockchan3418 I don’t think the xd was necessary to get your point across
@@Giuseppe326 .-. damn why did I type that-
@@not_pockchan3418 idk man I’m glad I could save you from future embarrassment
@@Giuseppe326 yeah tysm dude
The "Geiger counter" shown at 1:25 is actually not a Geiger counter, but in fact a CD V-715 Survey Meter because it uses an ion chamber. The CD V-700, however, is a Geiger counter because it uses a Geiger tube. I only said this to see it in next years mistake video I honestly don't care.
Updooted.
ok
Nerd
Look at these guys, giving-out the compliments. Warms the heart.
Nerd
639 year long piece: Exists
Speedrunners: Finishes it in 2 1/2 minutes
Cursed pfp
dream can do it in 3 seconds
Dudududu
@@mobythelion3882 if the rng with the organ is really good. Or maybe he cheated....
@@mobythelion3882 He could do it in 1 second! But dont worry guys he's just *reallllyyyy* lucky. I doubt he cheated to get better odds! Dream would never do that..right?
Looking forward to seeing "Februrary" in your next "All mistakes we made"-video!
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So basically, this song will be played during Queen Elizabeth's life documentary.
Yup
10012 times
@George V. 694,208,675 times
@@helltubejackie1086 no 69,000,000,000 times
The number of seconds old the universe is at the time I post this comment times!
Me: finishes this after 639 years
Teacher: *play it one more time would ya?*
*639 years later*
*Play it one more time would ya?*
@@spingleboygle
Nope not good enough,
*Play it one more time would ya?*
1278 years but tRy It 1 MoRe TiMe WoUlD yA
Parents: now play it backwards
@@shritan0 not parents, Asian parents
It’s “As Slow As Possible” but they passed on the name “ASLAP”?
Damn that would've been perfect
As SLow As Possible
they knew what they were doing cause ASAP now stands for "As Soon As Possible"
Slappers slap that like button
what's up slappers
HAI: "We won't get in trouble for showing this song"
UA-cam: "I'm about to end this man's whole career"
Half from Interesting?
Yea... silence is copyrighted now
From jdsupra: "Works Created on or After January 1, 1978: These works are protected for 70 years after the death of the individual author. Where there are two or more individual authors, the term lasts for 70 years after the last surviving author’s death. For “works made for hire,” the term of protection is 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation, whichever date is earlier."
So yeah, that silence is still copyrighted.
@@rubbers3 if it can be proven that it's the same silence.
UA-cam: So you're saying I can copyright silence now...? It's a dream come true!
This Song: *Exists*
Queen Elizabeth: Finally a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary!
Just watched kung fu panda 1 and realised where that came from
Now I’m going to watch kung fu panda
Jiang Zemin: Hold my glasses.
Y
future doggo, because queen elizabeth is thought to be immortal, so this song is so long that they can compete who lasts longer
just imagine aliens randomly hearing organ notes once all of humanity has perished
Gonna take a while to transcribe this one
didn't expect you here
"...ENCORE!!!"
-Some mad lad ,September 5 2640
No, the ad is going to play at the end.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 lmfao
Lpl
*sigh*
*639-year-long song starts up again*
(flashbacks to the one and only performance of Satie's Vieuxtemps)
Imagine if UA-cam started handing out copyright strikes for silence
It's only a matter of time
Wouldn't shock me at all. They have to make up non political reasons when the delete people whose politics they disagree with...
Well they took down a video for no reason they said it was because it violated their terms of service agreement but the music that was in the video didn’t have a copyright holder available for contact
@@blakem2902 Because of the terms of service of youtube that nobody ever reads, they can do whatever they want whenever they feel like it. But if they can at least make up a good fake reason it's better for publicity.
I know of at least one instance in which they handed out a copyright strike because the birds in someone's hiking footage -- and then *refused* to retract it.
My teacher played 4'33 in class. He just sat down and waited. I thought he would start any second.
😐👏
Dont you think this is amazing though? That incredible feeling that maybe something is going to start soon.
@@maestrotheoretically519 First I thought he maybe checking something. Then it got strange. Soon it became boring. But looking back it was pretty relaxing overall.
Yeah my teacher did that too. Asked us if it was actual music or not.
it already had started btw
she/he was playing it ASLAP
Alien 1: What are they doing?
Alien 2: The've been listening to a single note for over a decade
Humans are so quirky
It’s scary that everyone watching this video will be dead before that thing is even close to finishing
Ik
Yeah lmao ppl 600 something years from now will be laughing at our comments, calling us fossils or something lol. To those ppl I must say: Sus amongus balls.
My dad actually was at this conference in Trossingen (I'm from Germany, he's an organist) and it was his idea. When they discussed which instrument(s) to use and they thought about an organ, he suggested you should have the song lasting a few weeks, months, or years. Then the others said, "Well that's a good idea!" But they made it even longer.
Hey, is there a way for people from other countries to watch it live? Live some live stream or something?
Muhammad Hamza Siddiqui i was literally just thinking that and tried to search what time it started but after 10 minutes of googling i couldn’t find it. i’d imagine they would have a live stream but idk
Exactly, i google around and nothing. Nothing more than a wikipedia page. I doubt it's that popular, i mean even we learned this quote recently, so maybe in a few decades, or a few hundred years, it might get big.
I don't think there's a live stream. And I don't know why. But I'm sure there'll be videos of the chord change uploaded on UA-cam.
While I’m not sure if there’s going to be a live stream, there actually is a dedicated website to the project where you can always hear the current sound that is being played.
www.aslsp.org/de/
You would be through this whole song and Belgium would still have no goverment
Lol
69
Im Belgian and i can confirm that
through*
But fair point.
@@JonathonV oops
Me at 3 a.m. : Last song before I go to bed!
Also me: *_proceeds to listen to a 600 years long song_*
I guarantee you'll fall asleep before the song ends.
Sorry bro, you're gonna *go to sleep* somewhere along the way
Brings a whole new meaning to sleep music
Mom said one more song before bed...
Me reading this at 3:25am
Yes! I have actually been there. I had to ring a bell at the house next to the church and was given a key, then I unlocked the big church door, turned on the light and heard the tone playing. Walking around the church I noticed how it sounds in its various corners and being there all by myself in the cool darkness filled by the tone by the longest playing organ ever was certainly quite the unique experience. I allowed myself to forget the time for a bit and some twenty minutes later locked the door again and returned the key.
I can recommend it. Only a single tone? But it can also be like a brief meeting with eternity, with a timescale very different from that of our daily lives.
I once had a piece in middle school band that didn’t specify a tempo and just said. “As fast as possible, but not faster”
I love how the performance is based on the idea that "this church has had an organ for the last 639 years, so why wouldnt it have one for the next 639?", which is extremely german.
I remember how we performed 4'33 with our music class on stage with a full orchestra. We tried to take ist as serious as possible with full orchestra clothing and assembly, and when we sat there (I was first violin without knowing how to play a single note) and it was so hard not to laugh. The audience was so confused.
the idea of 4'33 is to actually listen to the hall it is being played at with every live performance being different.
it's art damn it
I once heard someone sum-up modern art as "I could make that!" "Yeah, but you didn't." :D
@@fish3977 I agree with that. I think the other interesting part is that the audience has the expectation for the musician to play. Therefore during each set there builds a tension and the room is pretty quiet, you just hear the audience occasionally. Only during the breaks you realize how loud the audience can be without talking or doing anything specifically noisy. The people just cough, adjust their position and such things. I think the other part of 4'33 wich is art is that it makes you listen to the audience or which noises there are besides the musical instrument.
it*
I’m an organist and I consider Cage to sometimes be a bit of a meme.
Same here
An organist is what i call my brother. Others call him a surgeon but same thing right?
YUP
I wish more people played "Souvenir," since it's a pretty legit piece and not remotely a meme, but what can you do!
Only a bit???
My favorite John Cage piece was Etudes Australes where he overlayed a map of stars in the sky onto 32 pieces of sheet music and played it.
HAI before every video: "This video was made possible by..."
me: ...HAI
*the 639 year longest song ever*
"this video was made possible by audible!"
John Cage.
Hmm🤔
LMAO-
Gustav Mahler: "I just wrote this song that uses a big ass hammer."
John Cage: "Ah, that's cute."
Mahler now has contenders for longest pieces
Tchaikovsky: I used non-musical instruments in my piece
Cage: you are using instruments?
@@lampoilropebombs0640 cannon noises intensifies
Haydn: (creates about a hundred and four symphonies, hence earning the nickname "Father of the Symphony" and has taught Beethoven at some point)
Mozart: (is a fricking genius that composed his first symphony at age eight)
Beethoven: (introduced the choir to the orchestra, and was one of the first composers to break the time's rules of music)
Cage: ( )
@@hannahquintua
Haydn: Does a lot of one thing.
Mozart: Is really good at doing that thing.
Beethoven: Does the thing in a pretty unexpected way.
Cage: Completely redefines our culture's understanding of what that thing even is in the first place.
This is the musical equivalent of: this is the route your father had to take to get to school
2:10 fun fact Thomas Moore was a drummer of the Beatles during 1960 before he quit
I thought that was pete best
"Pianos are percussion instruments." And with one phrase I got flashbacks to heated debates in the band rooms of high school
almost as long as the average wait time for TSA at newark intl airport, new jersey
We in New York prefer the quantity over quality method when it comes to our airports
i always go to the airport 3 hours before my flight
Can't believe HAI didn't make an airplane joke.
ooh that's a Hesse flag avatar :O
You messed up the end a little bit around 100 years ago, let’s take it from the top again
No no no, at 200 years you have to play the arpeggio like _this._
Play it slowly from the start so you understand.
You missed the forte piano about 420 years ago
Restart and you’ll see it
pain
Yeah you forgot to do a 67108864th rest around 639 years. Restart
Imagine going to church and they can’t play anymore music because some organ mains said so
Why are there no Christians here
For your next "All mistakes we made"-video: at 5:09 the written chord is ok, but in the audio after it there is an F (or E#) in place of the E...
Correct. The audio is of a tri-tone instead of a Major chord.
I wonder if that was intentional. lol
Quality video as always...keep up the good work
And here’s me thinking the longest song ever is “Echoes” or something
Patrick George ever heard of Dream Theater?
@@wolfbane4875 ever heard of Flaming Lips?
@@uriel7395 Ever heard of Sleep?
@@ejl1000 I have, and that is definitely shorter than what I mentioned.
Uriel idk how long those are but echoes live is 27 min
"what else are they gonna talk about at a organ conference, kidney's"
Made me laugh harder then it should
We need a livestream of that organ playing in Germany 😁
1:16 Exactly at that moment, My screen said that something went wrong and you need to try again later with that exact image and I thought it was a joke. It wasn’t apart fo the video.
My sister: Can I play just one more song?
Me: Sure
My sister:
Person: "This song is good, I should upload this to youtube!"
Their computer: *Coffin Dance*
UA-cam: *Coffin Dance*
I can’t be the only one that thought of Lamb Chop’s Play Along when they read the title. Also, I can definitely create a way longer song. Wait and see
Will it be about you. Also, you can’t arrest me because I’m not gonna go to North Korea ever
Which book did Andy Kauffman once stand on a stage and read to the audience for the entire duration of a supposed stand-up comedy special; it was something by Kafka, was it not?
Hey Kim! I'm shocked to see you here. Hope all is well with you and Mrs. Kim since we haven't seen her in a while.
Oh, there's longer. Much, much longer. Mostly built around loops with coprime lengths, giving you ludicrously long times until they sync back up, which is the end.
What about the LongPlayer and it's piece of music? "Longplayer is a one thousand year long musical composition. It began playing at midnight on the 31st of December 1999, and will continue to play without repetition until the last moment of 2999, at which point it will complete its cycle and begin again. Conceived and composed by Jem Finer."
imagine 638 year later with 1 day left for the music to stop just to have the last pipe being broken in the beginning
You know it’s dedication when more than 5 of your generations finish your unfinished work
HAI: *does not put music*
Me: *hears music*
HAI: you were not supposed to hear anything
Me: ummmm
Pedapudi Vishnuram Are you sure you aren’t schizophrenic?
If you heard something that was probably the Placebo effect.
You: Hears a symphony when running bathwater.
Me: Me too.
You: Dude, I was just kidding.
Me: Oh... me too...
Water: 🎶 Symphony 🎶
@@tofuuuuuuuuuuuuu well i meant it as a joke, i purposefully was singing a song in my head, that explains it
I'm hoping the editor went to the effort to actually get a clip of 4'33" being performed, rather than just playing silence.
The difference is the incidental noise, such as people shuffling in their seats.
That’s longer than I’ve been alive, wow!
its bigger than a football field. can you believe that?
It's heavier than 50 Toyota corollas
You’re too young to view this video.
Pshhh... _kids._
So...its at least 30 minutes (plus however long it's been since I wrote this)
youtube 2021: john cage claims every video with a silent moment as copyright infringement
I’m currently a percussion student, and we’ve been studying John Cage pieces. Loved the video!
My favorite story of John Cage was him meeting with the visual Avante garde madlad Jackson Pollock.
Pollock was an admirer and showed Cage his process, saying he was trying to do what Cage was doing.
Cage flew into a rage upon seeing him work, exceptionally infuriated by the comparison, and denounced him as a hack who put no thought or effort into understanding his own work or the nature of randomness.
0:18 - 0:44
That songs fire bro.
*Does the nae nae*
I'm gonna download this later
*bro you just posted cringe*
*you are going to lose subscriber*
@@garrywalmartcashier 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@garrywalmartcashier oh sheeee
0:19 You could say the song is not...
Audible
That's longer than 3 football fields
0:19 Ah yes, my favorite song: Nintendo Switch Mii Maker
"6 minute youtube videos explaining the longest song ever"
"Me a big brain: *the song that doesn't end*"
"Some of which involved toasters, blenders..."
Me: Ohhh so he was what inspired Device Orchestra!
I can't believe I got here right when it was uploaded.
"4'33" is not about the musician, but the place the piece is played. It's about all the sounds outside of a musical performance, not about the silence of the musician. When I finally understood that concept, I found the idea very intriguing. That's also around the time I started getting into avant garde art and dadaism, and not coincidentally, when my friends started getting annoyed at me during casual conversations.
What timing, great minds think alike with making a video on this topic, great take on it! 😁
A wise man once said "A song that never ends is no song at all."
Queen Elizabeth: Finally a song which will last from my birth to the end of my life
Are you queen elizabeth?
Hmm yes but she would have heard this song many times because she's immortal
The Queen of England is scarier than the Queen in the chest.
@@greatdane1991 even though I am asian , damn I agree
MISTAKE SPOTTED:
4:39 was right where it says the performance started in September 5, 2001
5:52 however said that the performance started in September 5, 2000
*Mistakes
That’s pretty ironic lol
We got Batman over here
Ladies and gentlemen, we gottem
No*
*No explanation on why this comment is not correct.
At 5:52 he said "when the performance was *scheduled* to start" which might be independently incorrect but it doesn't contradict the previous statement.
I am going on a trip to Halberstadt today
This is the song that doesn’t end, yes it goes on and on my friend
0:46 why is that guy sticking an almond in his ear
seriously why is he doing that
why
Random Fact:
A lobster's brain is located in its throat, its teeth in its stomach and kidney in its head.
- Daily Fun Facts
All of this is not true
and why does that relate to this video?
I knew about the Brain and Kidneys, not the teeth. Neat.
Just like me.
I was not aware of that. Thank you.
"However, in 1997, things were taken to a whole new level..." 3:43
*But show a animation that rises from 1 to 2 hmm*
Yeah a whole new level, whole number, new level!
but 2 is higher than 1 so it IS a new level
what does hmm mean
When your last name is based off a random town in Germany from a HAI video
This give me the vibe of Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.
An intergalactic highway is being plan somewhere
Lofi hip hop radio: “am i a joke to you?”
Plot twist: the 25 chapter limit broken it
Next HAI video: “how I got a copyright strike for nothing.”
5:19 is actually an F diminished chord
Shaak Ti
No, it’s E major like HAI says. An F diminished would have a D and...well...an F.
@@autonomouscollective2599 @shaak is technically correct. F dim would have F, Ab, B, D - enharmonically (ie the same as) also E# g# b - the notes we heard in the chord played in the video, so yes, an F dim.
luke stevenson
I’ll admit music theory is not my strong suit. You’ll have to school me here. The chord played has E, not E#. Are you saying it’s not E major?
@@autonomouscollective2599 to my ear there is no E played in the chord. Its an E# (or F). Thats the hilarious issue ahah. HaI placed their trust in a sound engineer which may have messed up the chord :) I honestly scrolled back through the comments to see whether anyone else had noticed (as im not normally the comment type). I am a musician however with perfect pitch so this is one area I can weight in on :)
luke stevenson
I got you. I very much doubt I have perfect pitch (especially with the tinitis). I was going by the notation. So I’ll take your word for it.
Lol, who else increased their speaker volume trying to listen to the 'awesome song' he was telling at the beginning? 🙃
I was washing my dishes and played this in the background. Cant turn my speaker up.
6:21 I saw that coronavirus book and Wow that video is crazy....
“ASLSP” sounds like “asleep”
or a Radiohead album abbreviation
It's wild how much 4'33'' sounds like the laughter after a HAI joke
4:40 It’s 1 year and 5 months between September 2001 and February 2003, which I wouldn’t exactly call “nearly two years”.
What's gonna happen in "2020: The Series - September"?
A mistake in this song
ASLSP & 4’33 should be in a concert
I already knew who John Cage was and his works are hilarious, I really recommend watching his "Water Walk" performance. He said the reason why the name of the performance "Water Walk" was because there was water and he was walking around. Honestly that guy is four parallel universes ahead of us lol
No one :
Me jamming to ASLSP : "Uh"
"Yeah"
I'm so funny because I wrote nO oNeEeE
@@B3Band No.
Channel: 3 seconds of silence
UA-cam: So you have chosen death.
4'33" is not silent - the music that John Cage intended us to hear is the background noise in the theater.
Finally! A song i can listen to while waiting the line at Newark Airport
4:58 "E major"
Soon after plays an F diminished.
When my friend said that I would hear this song for the rest of my life, I didn't think this is what he meant.
This song: exists
Church worship songs: *A R E Y O U C H A L L E N G I N G M E*
Finally, no need to hit the replay button every 10 hours.
Half As Interesting’s been more enthusiastic than the last time I watched him
0:18 the music is called "The Silence Of The Piano"
So no need to find 1 hour or 10 hour version of the song and replay it every time !?
*Hell Yeah*
3:06 Hey it's my boy The House of the Scorpion, the first book that ever gave me nightmares.
"IT'S A PIECE!!!"
- Ling Ling probably
It was fun begrudgingly putting up with this video
“Yo just keep listening it gets good like halfway”