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Longplayer listening post at Rainy Days Festival 2024
20 September 2024The theme of this year’s Rainy Days Festival of contemporary music is ‘extremes’. Sounding out the extreme limits of humanity’s concept of time by playing across a millenium, Longplayer will feature as a listening post in the Grand Foyer of Philharmonie Luxembourg throughout the festival, from 20th-24th November. The festival – curated by composer Catherine…
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Longplayer at Open House Festival 2024, Trinity Buoy Wharf
04 September 2024As part of Open House Festival 2024, Trinity Buoy Wharf opened its doors to the public and hosting tours and workshops across their artist studios and heritage sites for two weekends in September: 14-15th and 21-22nd. Longplayer Trustees headed down to the Trinity Buoy Wharf lighthouse, home to Longplayer, across both weekends to welcome visitors…
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Longplayer Listening Post at Arts Festival Watou 2024
17 July 2024Longplayer’s installation at the Arts Festival Watou – Landscape of the Imagination – was open to the public to visit in Poperinge, Belgium from July through to September 2024, throughout which time you could listen to Longplayer resonating through the singing bowl and throughout this unique space. We were thrilled to be part of this…
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A very Long Afternoon with Ansuman Biswas (9th June, 9-5)
21 May 2024On Sunday 9th June, Longplayer invited guests to spend a Long Afternoon with Ansuman Biswas at London’s only lighthouse. This special event took the form of a particularly long afternoon, with Ansuman offering a durational performance from 9am-5pm. ‘Escaping the 9 to 5 is a work of imagination. It’s hard to see what’s there until…
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Long Afternoon with Iain Sinclair, Sunday 28th April
12 April 2024Our April Long Afternoon in the lighthouse featured a talk with Iain Sinclair. The lighthouse was open to visitors, with a young persons activity table, from 1:30-3pm, and Iain Sinclair’s talk, ‘Gifts of the River Returning’ took place at 3:30pm. Iain’s talk reflected on the legacies of work undertaken in the area, and his nocturnal…
