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  • Longplayer iOS app

    Longplayer is now available on the itunes Store £3.99 Longplayer, the legendary 1000-year-long composition by Jem Finer, is now available as an iOS app 1000 years of music in your pocket! Longplayer is a musical composition that has been playing since the beginning of the year 2000, and will play on, never repeating, until it…

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  • Longplayer Sound Archive

    An archive of all the sound files on this website . . .

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  • Longplayer Remixes

    In 2003 Jem Finer started to invite people to choose a 10 minute section of Longplayer, from its past, and to use that material in any way they wished, to make a new piece of music. These tracks will be made available to listen to here. Pierre Bastien   El elepe pelele El elepe pelele by…

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  • Live Stream

    Listen to Longplayer, streamed live from Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

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  • Longplayer Live

    From the outset, Longplayer was a project designed to seek out its own survival strategies. Over the last few years this effort has been focussed on the development of Longplayer Live, a long-durational live performance for 6 – 12 players. Representing a unique fragment from an enormous continuum, each live performance is calculated to synchronize precisely with…

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  • Longplayer For Voices

    A vocal version of Longplayer is currently in development. This project will see the development of a version of Longplayer stripped of any need for technology and as such is a significant step in Longplayer’s strategy for survival.

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Additional Material

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.

Texts

Essays and writings on the subject of Longplayer and its themes. Writers include Janna Levin, Kodwo Eshun and Christine and Margaret Wertheim.