Longplayer

Longplayer has been playing for
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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.

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News

A thousand-year-long composition turns 25

As of midday today (GMT), New Year’s Eve, Longplayer has been playing continuously, without repetition, for 25 years. Playing since the cusp of the new millennium, at midnight on 31 December 1999, the composition will continue without repetition (if circumstances permit it to) until the last moments of 2999, when it will return to the…

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New Longplayer merchandise just launched!

Longplayer 2025 Calendar, limited edition, £20 + P&P. To celebrate Longplayer 25th birthday on the 31st December 2024, we are releasing a limited edition calendar of original artworks by artists who have had a musical relationship with Jem Finer, the composer of Longplayer. Each of these first edition calendars will be signed and numbered by…

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Longplayer Live at the Roundhouse, 5th April 2025

On the 31st December 2024, Longplayer will complete the first quarter century of its score. Throughout 2025, this milestone will be marked with an international programme of events, collaborations and initiatives celebrating the work’s unique articulation of time and its dimensions, and the engagement with the long-term that Longplayer continues to inspire. Longplayer Live Booking…

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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