The French Disappearance

"Having a blast"? Well, that is a nice change from all the techno-whining! :) Anyhow, glad you're starting to have all the pieces work together. Please post some demos somewhere so we can hear the progress. And congrats on the French premiere...

Cheers,
Jon

And there's always La Monte Young's [b]"The Base 9:7:4 Symmetry in Prime Time When Centered above and below The Lowest Term Primes in The Range 288 to 224 with The Addition of 279 and 261 in Which The Half of The Symmetric Division Mapped above and Including 288 Consists of The Powers of 2 Multiplied by The Primes within The Ranges of 144 to 128, 72 to 64 and 36 to 32 Which Are Symmetrical to Those Primes in Lowest Terms in The Half of The Symmetric Division Mapped below and Including 224 within The Ranges 126 to 112, 63 to 56 and 31.5 to 28 with The Addition of 119." [/b]

Whew.

KG replies: I said orchestra piece. I know there are longer titles.

There are a few more letters in "The Throne of the Third Heaven of the National Millennium General Assembly" by Jefferson Friedman, recently premiered by the National Symphony Orchestra.

The Guinness book is behind the times. Sufjan Stevens' song from Illinois, "The Black Hawk War, Or, How To Demolish An Entire Civilization And Still Feel Good About Yourself In The Morning, Or, We Apologize For The Inconvenience But You're Gonna Have To Leave Now, Or, 'I Have Fought The Big Knives And Will Continue To Fight Them Until They Are Off Our Lands!'" is longer than the Carmichael, weighing in at 285 characters to the Carmichael song's 153. (If, that is, you accept such a disjoint title.)

See also here. Keiji Haino also has some typically baffling lengthy song titles (eg 'That, which while enfolding this now and present perfume, speaks,
"I will use to the fullest this form bestowed upon me"
and blurs into the firmament
-ah, where and in what form will it next be devised'). (I realize this isn't really the point of the post, but was piqued…)