Date: 12/04/2025 14:22:14
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 2271282
Subject: Longest time to write a song, book or movie.

Is there a record for the longest time to write a song, book or movie?

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Date: 12/04/2025 14:25:54
From: dv
ID: 2271284
Subject: re: Longest time to write a song, book or movie.

Tau.Neutrino said:


Is there a record for the longest time to write a song, book or movie?

I mean the OED is still being working on after more than a century…

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Date: 12/04/2025 14:26:10
From: SCIENCE
ID: 2271285
Subject: re: Longest time to write a song, book or movie.

0.5 Es

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Date: 12/04/2025 14:27:15
From: party_pants
ID: 2271286
Subject: re: Longest time to write a song, book or movie.

A lifetime.

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Date: 12/04/2025 14:31:05
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 2271289
Subject: re: Longest time to write a song, book or movie.

dv said:


Tau.Neutrino said:

Is there a record for the longest time to write a song, book or movie?

I mean the OED is still being working on after more than a century…

True.

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Date: 12/04/2025 14:33:09
From: Bubblecar
ID: 2271293
Subject: re: Longest time to write a song, book or movie.

dv said:


Tau.Neutrino said:

Is there a record for the longest time to write a song, book or movie?

I mean the OED is still being working on after more than a century…

Reminds me to read another chapter of The Dictionary of Lost Words.

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Date: 12/04/2025 14:33:17
From: roughbarked
ID: 2271294
Subject: re: Longest time to write a song, book or movie.

party_pants said:


A lifetime.

Could easily take that to make a watch?

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Date: 12/04/2025 14:41:27
From: SCIENCE
ID: 2271299
Subject: re: Longest time to write a song, book or movie.

roughbarked said:

party_pants said:

A lifetime.

Could easily take that to make a watch?

or make the watch list

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Date: 12/04/2025 14:49:04
From: roughbarked
ID: 2271303
Subject: re: Longest time to write a song, book or movie.

SCIENCE said:

roughbarked said:

party_pants said:

A lifetime.

Could easily take that to make a watch?

or make the watch list

That could take mere seconds.

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Date: 12/04/2025 17:02:50
From: esselte
ID: 2271360
Subject: re: Longest time to write a song, book or movie.

This isn’t writing, but:

ORGAN2/ASLSP is a musical piece by John Cage and the subject of the second-longest-lasting (after Longplayer) musical performance yet undertaken. Cage wrote it in 1987 for organ, as an adaptation of his 1985 composition ASLSP for piano. A performance of the piano version usually lasts 20 to 70 minutes.

An organ in St. Burchardi church in Halberstadt in 2001 began a performance that is due to end in 2640. This makes it the longest running non-computerized piece currently being performed. The most recent note was played on February 5, 2024. The next note will be played on August 5, 2026.

Longplayer is a musical composition made by British composer and musician Jem Finer which is composed to play for 1,000 years without looping. It started to play at midnight on 1 January 2000, and if all goes as planned, it will continue without repetition until 31 December 2999.

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