Today, there was a radio report about
a piece of music that has been playing for some while and is due to
last for 639 years:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7880000/7880626.stm
and today the note changed and not due to be changed again for
another year.
There's something very relaxing and global non-crisis about this
concept...
This also relates to the world's first blank story in Nemonymous Two (2002) that I'm still reading.
And somene has told me elsewhere about The Long Now Foundation (fascinating
in itself) that has a specific page about this music project: see link
above.