Longplayer

Longplayer has been playing for
25 years 128 days 19 hours 59 minutes and 27 seconds

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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.

How to find Longplayer

News

Longplayer featured in FT Times: ‘How to write a track that plays for a 1000 years’

We were honoured that Longplayer Live was featured in an article by Imogen West Knights last week in the Financial Times. Towards the end of the piece, Imogen caught up with some of the young artists that took part in the performance, including Oshin, the 19-year-old son of Ansuman Biswas (Conductor of Longplayer Live and…

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Longplayer Live on Resonance FM

Longplayer Live on Resonance FM If you weren’t able to make it to Longplayer Live, or if you’d like to hear more about the project, head over to Resonance FM, where you can now listen to a conversation between Ilia Rogatchevski and Longplayer’s composer Jem Finer on the origins of Longplayer, its custodianship and manifestation…

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Channel 4 news visit Longplayer Live (05/04, Roundhouse) rehearsals

Yesterday, Channel 4 News came to check out rehearsals for Longplayer Live, which is taking place at the Roundhouse, London, this Saturday: a 1000 minute performance of a 1000 year long composition, as written for that exact moment in time, not to be heard again until 3025. They spoke to some of the brilliant young…

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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