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A thousand-year-long composition turns 25
31 December 2024As 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!
05 December 2024Longplayer 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
14 November 2024On 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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Longplayer featured in Hoxton Mini Press’s ‘Opinionated Guide to Free London’
11 November 2024The Longplayer listening post at the Trinity Buoy Wharf lighthouse has been featured in Hoxton Mini Press’s ‘Opinionated Guide to Free London’, as one of the ‘coolest, most creative places in the capital’. The listening post is open to visit every weekend from 11am-4pm (Winter) and 11am-5pm (Summer). Find out more about this listening post…
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Longplayer Conversation 2024: Kate Briggs and Daisy Hildyard
04 November 2024THE LONGPLAYER CONVERSATION 2024: Kate Briggs and Daisy Hildyard At Swedenborg Hall 12th December 2024, 7pm Tickets: £5 – eventbrite. The Longplayer Conversation invites leading cultural and scientific voices to conduct a public discussion inspired by the work’s unique dramatization of time itself, and its kaleidoscopic resonances. This year, as Longplayer approaches the end of…
