Longplayer Live is an incredible endeavor. I first blogged about it here. A single composition playing for 1000 years. It started in 1999 and on the 12th of September I was invited by Artangel to blog about it live. It was a great day. It was a long day. 1000 minutes of 1000 years. You can find some Audioboo's by myself and others tagged with Longplayer here and some of my Flickr images … [Read more...] about Longplayer Live at The Roundhouse
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Not Dead Just Sleeping #longplayer
Here all day
I imagine people may well be fed up of all the #Longplayer tags that are flying around my feeds. It is difficult to get across just how amazing this place is.. The conversation, the soundtrack, the questions posed that may never be answered. Time is flying by. This is the first time this composition has been played live. I am sure it will happen again but I can't think where. Surely nowhere … [Read more...] about Here all day
Longplayer Live
On the back of a bus in 1995 a guy called Jem Finer had an idea. Nearly five years later in 1999, on the verge of the third millennium that idea came to life as a thousand year long musical composition was set into motion. Longplayer is a piece of music that’s been playing since 31 December 1999 and will keep playing until 31 December 2999. The composer Jem Finer created it in such a way that it … [Read more...] about Longplayer Live