Performances
On February 5, 2009, Diane Luchese performed "Organ²/ASLSP" from 8:45 AM to 11:41 PM in the Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall, Towson University. This 14 hours and 56 minutes uninterrupted and complete performance, with strict adherence to the score's temporal proportions, is the longest documented performance of the piece by a single human so far, although a full 24-hour version of the original piece, ASLSP, was performed by Joe Drew during the ARTSaha! festival in 2008. Drew has also given 9 and 12-hour performances of the piece, and is currently planning a 48-hour performance.
On September 5, 2012, as part of John Cage Day at the University of Adelaide, Australia, Stephen Whittington performed an 8-hour version of ASLSP on the Elder Hall organ. The eight sections of the work were each allocated one hour of time, with each section being divided into segments of one minute, within which the precise timing of events was left open. In performance, seven sections were played, with one omitted and one repeated. Organ registrations were determined by chance procedures.
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