RECENT NEWS
We are thrilled to announce that a live performance of Longplayer and a Long Conversation will take place in San Francisco, on the 16th October, presented by the Long Now Foundation. Initial information can be here.
The live stream is now back on line. Click on the listen button.
The website has now been updated with an expanded LIVE section, two new texts and recordings of the Long Conversation held in parallel with the live concert at the Roundhouse in London in September 2009. This includes biographical details of all the participants and unedited recordings of each conversation. Many other sections have been revised, featuring new images and text.
On the 5th February 2010 a Long Conversation took place in Berlin as part of the Transmediale Festival.
More details here.
The HKW hosted a Longplayer listening post for the duration of the festival (2nd - 7th February).
Christian Payne’s documentation of the event is here.
A short video of Longplayer Live can be seen here.
A set of beautiful photos by Jana Chiellino and Bruce Atherton are here.
Meanwhile in the world of twitter . . .
The first live performance of Longplayer took place in the Roundhouse, London, on the 12th September.
Documentation of the 1000 minute long concert and the parallel Long Conversation will appear on the website in due course.
A short preview of the event can be seen here.
From the 21st June 2009 the listening post in the lighthouse, at Trinity Buoy Wharf, will be open every weekend. During the summer months this will be from 11 am until 5 pm.
David Rooney, the curator of time keeping at Greenwich Observatory, talks about Longplayer in his January 2009 podcast.
Longplayer also gets a mention in his appearance on Radio 4’sSaturday Live