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An art installation and musical performance based on celestial movements that will, allegedly, take 1000 years to complete. It began in the year 2000.
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Bull of Heaven is an experimental, avant-garde music group that was featured in a scholastic article entitled āUnperformable Works and the Ontology of Musicā in the British Journal of Aesthetics, published by Oxford University Press in May 2016.
From September 2009 to January of the following year, the band released a series of songs, known as Alephs. The first ten of these contained roughly 1000-1100 pieces in each sub-folder. Aleph10 and Aleph11 contain one million and ten million pieces respectively.
In June 2010, the band created another new set of pieces different from the numbered, Aleph, and I-C pieces; this was a set of ten untitled folders, each containing thousands of short pieces, named as 32 digits of hexadecimal code.
Between the end of 2010 and 2011, the band started creating various music puzzles, anti-music, and even lengthier pieces of music from where they started, which included anywhere from 900 hours to 2 months in duration.
Examples include: MP3 files that are actually RAR archives, password-encrypted files, pieces embedded within other formats, such as PDF and EXE, pieces listed with negative song lengths, and a variety of SWF files.
In March 2011, the band released a series of pieces of extraordinary lengths. This series, ranging from their numerical ordering of 238-260, is similar to the Longplayer idea - each sound is the length of a prime number, and each subsequent piece
creates near infinite lengths of time before theyāre synchronized.
The final in the series, 260: cm (2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47,53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79,83) would last 8,462,937,602,
125,701,219,674,955.2362595095 years before all the pieces synchronized.
In 2012, they released only three pieces of music, including 289: CALCULOR, a calculator that doubles as a music generator.
In early 2014, the band released a fan-made compilation of love songs,Ā 300: Songs for Girls, followed by 301: Weed Problem II-V, and another extremely lengthy piece, 302: It is Part of Spacd and Time, which runs for at least 86,370,000 years. 310:
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is their longest release, and lasts for 3.343 quindecillion years.
Their entire discography is uploaded to the Internet Archive and mostly available on their website, though itās frequently subjected to numerous 404 errors and downages.
The band originally consisted of Clayton Counts and Neil Keener, but after Countsā death, Keener remains the only member. On September 12, 2018, Neil released the first new Bull of Heaven piece since Clayton's death, titled "Fight Night for the Ghosts of Heaven".
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water & light-based installation that weaves light & sound through water. last night was a special event where lachlan explored how music from plants impact water & light. very cool piece
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