[Coco] Learning the 6809 offer on pucc list

[Roger Taylor]

At 11:02 PM 10/22/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>At 10:57 PM 10/22/03 EDT, KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
> >6-channel?  Dennis, were these CDs supposed to play back on the 5 or 6
> >channel DVD-like home theater systems?  Can CDs really be made to do that?
>
>No, not in 1997, when this was produced. They were 3 stereo CDs intended to
>be started as the same time and slip out of sync (roughly 3 minutes each
>pass) so that it would take 27 years to play the complete piece. It was
>part of a sculptural installation in Burlington, Vermont, in 1997 and in
>Prague in 1999. Got the listener's mind totally trashed after about 8 hours
>of it.

You had me there for a second then I got lost.  Can you explain how it 
takes 27 years to play 3 CDs, and what is 3 minutes per pass?  :)
thx