Longplayer

Longplayer has been playing for
25 years 338 days 04 hours 24 minutes and 11 seconds

Search & Find Longplayer

Longplayer’s permanent home is in Trinity Buoy Wharf in London. There are also public listening posts around the world, and a continuous online audio stream.

How to find Longplayer

News

Longplayer Closure Saturday 20th December 2025

Longplayer will be closed to the public on Saturday 20th December 2025 for one day only due to a private event. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Longplayer will be open as normal on Sunday 21st from 11am – 4pm.

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Build your own Longplayer Player

Instructions for building your own autonomous Longplayer Player are now online. Developed and coded by Daniel Jones, this includes optional time sync via GPS which will keep all versions globally playing almost perfectly (to tiny decimal places of a second) in time. No internet connection is necessary – as long as the RPi knows the…

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An Ethnography of Longplayer

An Ethnography of Longplayer: Year 25 is a work by artist and animator Jess Mountfield. In the 25th anniversary year of Jem Finer’s 1000-year-long piece of music, Mountfield’s installation explored the fleeting nature of stewardship, when what is being cared for has been composed to continue for many human lifetimes. A collage of the voices…

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Letters

Since the spring of 2013, Artangel and the Longplayer Trust have been inviting thinkers and writers from a wide variety of disciplines to engage in a chain of written correspondence on the subject of long-term thinking.

Read the Longplayer Letters