Longplayer 2000 – 2999
“A millennium is ultimately an event of the imagination, based on the powers of ten and a calendar common to only one third of the world's population. Its only certainty is that the earth has spun around the sun one thousand times.”
Longplayer is an attempt to make sense of such a span of time. Emanating from one present moment into the unfolding future of the next thousand years, it provides a projection of growth and change.
Developed by 'The Pogues' Jem Finer, this ever–evolving musical composition will play continuously and without repetition for a thousand years, from 1st January 2000 until its completion on the 31st December 2999.
It features a twenty minute recording of the sound of Tibetan 'singing bowls', continuously repeated, and infinitely varied by a computer programme which ensures that the same sequence of sound will never be heard more than once in a thousand years.
'Longplayer' is managed by the Longplayer Trust and is open to the public on the first weekend of each month.
Visit the Longplayer Site at: www.longplayer.org