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 a Longplayer Trustee). You can read the full article here, but we wanted to share this passage with you:

‘Oshin has grown up with Longplayer. It is older than he is. “It’s always been a soundtrack to my life,” he said. He finds it almost comforting to know that whatever has happened to him, at any moment of his life, Longplayer has been playing continuously. “For me, it’s the sound of everything.” To get to play the piece that has provided the sonic landscape of his life was very special to him. “All of us, we were keeping alive this giant, living machine really, all the musicians swapping in and out and trying to keep this continuous breath going.”

He wants it to survive and wants to play a part in that. And he knows that this wanting is the thing that will ensure its survival. “When you think about it, most things in the world are trying to be passed on,” he said, “languages, cultures and religion, even biology, a species’ genes. Longplayer’s a bit different, because it doesn’t feel like that. It’s only there if we want it to be.”’

Photo credit: Kristian Buus