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submitted 4 months ago by merde to c/[email protected]

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The work is developed as a GIF animation, with each frame lasting 655,090 milliseconds, which is approximately 10.92 minutes. The total number of frames is 48,140,288 making the duration of the animation 1000 years.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I wanted to comment that I thought this was about the musical piece at first, but of course Wikipedia has that already covered:

This article is about the GIF. For the musical composition of a similar name, see As Slow as Possible.

[–] merde 4 points 4 months ago

started with 99% invisible episode about Cage's composition ☞ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/as-slow-as-possible/

ended with the gif :)