A performance of a 1000 minute section of Jem
Finer's thousand year long musical composition Longplayer is now in
the planning stages. Based on Jem Finer’s graphic score for 234
bowls and six players, the concert is scheduled to take place at
The Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, London, in September 2009. In order
to fund the building of this instrument and the production of the
event, The Longplayer Trust is inviting donations on a bowl-by-bowl
basis. When you fund a bowl, it will be engraved with a word of
your choice and a premium ticket for the performance will be
reserved in your name.
Longplayer has also now got a brand new website which has been
redesigned as well as rewritten.
Longplayer can be heard in the lighthouse at
Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, where it has been playing since it
began in December 1999. It can also be heard at several other
listening posts around the world, and globally via a live stream on
the Internet. At the time of writing, the Longplayer had been
playing for 8 years, 156 days, 02 hours, 28 minutes and 40
seconds...
