Tags: 3d, anaglyph, Audio, bowls, composition, flickr, journalism, longplayer, music, social, sound, twitter Learn more about the Longplayer project from their website Longplayers Posterous blog & the blog posts on Longplayer The Longplayer Trust is set up to keep it playing until 2999!įor everything longplayer related – I would encourage you to visit the space, check the net for images / broadcasts and info.Īll my flickr images from Longplayer LIVE event In the meantime, there are tons of resources out there on the project and ways you can explore, research and experience this. It was one of those events were you had to be there, saying that you can experience it for many years to come, I feel there will be more performances in the future. "The tables themselves had a time line system used by the musicians so they could keep time" It was conceived of by Jem Finer & originally commissioned by Artangel Longplayer is an ongoing 1000 year composition that is being played out in the UK for the past 9yrs (it was launched at the turn of the millenium) – broadcast all across the world through the power of the internet. There was a nice surprise waiting for me in the form of a photographers wristband, courtesy of (thank you) The concept of time measured with sound and the mathematical detail required to bring a project like this to life was my main interest in Longplayer, not to mention the use of Tibetan Singing Bowls, which is an instrument I have great respect for.Īrmed with my Stereo Data Maker Rig – I set out to capture some images, although I was planning on bringing more than the SDM digital rig, I got terribly paranoid about security, the event being held in the Roundhouse got me concerned that I would be refused entry fo an all day event and would miss out on it. Twitter is a great medium to promote technologies and events, so much so that – as part of his promotion of the event, he had 10 tickets to offer bloggers and twitter users to cover/attend/participate in the Longplayer LIVE event. One of the users I’ started following soon after the G20 protests was Christian going by the twitter username of It was through his ‘tweets’ that I responded to: I’m a keen follower of many twitter users, especially those that are quite embedded within the social media movement.
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