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

Longplayer, the Bayeux Tapestry, and other news

The rest is silence Sam Kinchin-Smith writes: I recently inherited my great uncle’s collection of Folio Society editions, which includes a handsome volume from 1973, The Bayeux Tapestry and the Norman Invasion. There’s a line in its introduction, by the philologist and translator Lewis Thorpe, which immediately stood out. Referring to the popular theory that…

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A new Longplayer remix by aztechsounds

In 2003 Jem Finer began inviting artists and musicians to choose a 10 minute section from Longplayer’s past, and to use it, in any way they chose, to make a new piece of music. The latest comes from aztechsounds. You can find them here as they are made available and also on our bandcamp page….

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Longplayer Closed to the Public Saturday 20th December 2025

Longplayer will be closed to the public for a private event for one day only on Saturday 20th December 2025. The Lighthouse will reopen as normal to visitors on Sunday 21st December 2025.

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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