page_title: Longplayer
section_title: Listening and performances
hierarchical_section_title: Longplayer / Listening and performances
caption_attribution_description: Longplayer live
context_page_description: Longplayer is a self-extending composition by British composer and musician Jem Finer which is designed to continue for one thousand years. It started to play at midnight on 1 January 2000, and if all goes as planned, it will continue without repetition until 31 December 2999. It will end and play again until 3999 or 3998.
  Longplayer can be played on any format, including ones not yet invented and is thus not tied to any one form of technology. There have also been several live performances and future performances continue to be planned. It began as an original commission by arts organisation Artangel and is currently maintained by the Longplayer Trust and is located in Bow Creek Lighthouse, Trinity Buoy Wharf on the north bank of the River Thames.
context_section_description: Longplayer could be heard in the relaxation zone of the Millennium Dome in London during its year of opening in 2000. The piece is also played in the 19th century lighthouse at Trinity Buoy Wharf and other public listening posts in the United Kingdom. It can currently be heard in several locations including the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Horniman Museum and Kings Place. Other listening stations can be found in the United States, Australia and Egypt, where it can still be heard today. It can also be heard via an Icecast Internet stream.
  In 2009 a 1000 minute long part of the piece was performed with a 26 piece orchestra on a purpose built stage at the Roundhouse, a converted railway turntable building now a performing arts venue in Chalk Farm, London. Performers included David Toop and Ansuman Biswas and the piece was played on what Finer described as a "giant synthesiser built of bronze-age technology." Musicians played in shifts in groups of 6, beginning at 08:20 BST with the performance lasting in total 16 hours and 40 minutes.
  The piece is also available as an app for mobile devices, designed by Joe Hales and Daniel Jones which runs completely independently of the piece being broadcast but is exactly in synchronised performance with it.
  Four excerpts of Longplayer were also released on vinyl LP which accompany a book of the same name written by Finer, along with essays by Kodwo Eshun, Janna Levin,  Margaret and Christine Wertheim.
caption: Jem Finer and David Toop at the Roundhouse
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