Get well soon
by Arifa Akbar
Friday, 21 August 2009
The Independent
Jem Finer, the musician and founding member of The Pogues, has just got back from Delhi with suspected giardia (a hideous stomach bug) but still intends to attend a performance of 234 Tibetan 'singing bowls' for his 1,000 minute 'Longplayer Live' show at the Roundhouse on 12 September. 'Longplayer' is a piece of music designed to last for 1,000 years, which started in 2000 and will continue without repetition until 2999. Some believe that the 'ommm' sounds emitted by singing bowls have sonic healing qualities. Maybe it will do something for his giardia.
LONG PLAYER
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Re: LONG PLAYER
Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:25 am
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Re: LONG PLAYER
Fri Sep 11, 2009 9:47 am
Live show of song that lasts 1,000 years
11.09.09
Louise Jury, Chief Arts Correspondent
London Evening Standard
A piece of computer-generated music designed to be played for 1,000 years will be performed live tomorrow for the first time since the project began a decade ago.
Jem Finer, an artist and founder member of The Pogues, will be joined by musicians and 32 Tibetan singing bowls placed in six concentric circles to play a 1,000-minute segment of the work, Longplayer, at the Roundhouse in Camden.
The work has been playing in digital form at a listening post in Docklands since 31 December 1999.
Finer said it was exciting to do it for real: "I think there will be periods that could be very dull and there will be periods that will be extraordinary."
Longplayer is made up of part of a 20-minute "source" piece of Tibetan singing bowl music being played every two minutes from a different starting point.
Finer, 54, of Kentish Town, wrote a "score" for the computer-generated music and will perform it from 8.20am tomorrow.
LiveStream from "longplayer live":
from http://www.longplayer.org
Listen to Longplayer Live !
From 07.20 am until midnight (GMT) on the 12/09/09, the live stream from the computer in Trinity Buoy Wharf will be silent. In it’s place you can listen to the live performance from the Roundhouse, as it happens.
Listen here !
11.09.09
Louise Jury, Chief Arts Correspondent
London Evening Standard
A piece of computer-generated music designed to be played for 1,000 years will be performed live tomorrow for the first time since the project began a decade ago.
Jem Finer, an artist and founder member of The Pogues, will be joined by musicians and 32 Tibetan singing bowls placed in six concentric circles to play a 1,000-minute segment of the work, Longplayer, at the Roundhouse in Camden.
The work has been playing in digital form at a listening post in Docklands since 31 December 1999.
Finer said it was exciting to do it for real: "I think there will be periods that could be very dull and there will be periods that will be extraordinary."
Longplayer is made up of part of a 20-minute "source" piece of Tibetan singing bowl music being played every two minutes from a different starting point.
Finer, 54, of Kentish Town, wrote a "score" for the computer-generated music and will perform it from 8.20am tomorrow.
LiveStream from "longplayer live":
from http://www.longplayer.org
Listen to Longplayer Live !
From 07.20 am until midnight (GMT) on the 12/09/09, the live stream from the computer in Trinity Buoy Wharf will be silent. In it’s place you can listen to the live performance from the Roundhouse, as it happens.
Listen here !
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Re: LONG PLAYER
Sun Sep 13, 2009 12:06 am
Thank you, Alex and Zuzana.
Hope Jem gets better soon.
Hope Jem gets better soon.
Canta, no llore.
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Re: LONG PLAYER
Sun Sep 13, 2009 8:30 am
Coming soon: the future
By Harry Eyres
September 10 2009 15:45
Financal Times
I was in no hurry to catch the Futurism exhibition at Tate Modern. Futurism is my least favourite school of 20th century art. Hardly ever in the field of human endeavour has objectionable ideology been so lavishly matched with execrable painting.
To give you a flavour of the former, here are some of the better known statements from Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto of 1909: “We declare that the splendour of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A roaring motor-car which seems to run on machine-gun fire is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace ... We want to glorify war – the only cure for the world – militarism, patriotism ... the beautiful ideas which kill, and contempt for woman.”
This manages to sound both silly and sinister at the same time – rather like PG Wodehouse’s black-shorts-wearing parody of Oswald Mosley, Roderick Spode. And not coincidentally, Marinetti’s Futurism segued seamlessly into Mussolini’s absurd and sinister version of Fascism – a point timidly glossed over in the Tate show.
Most of the art is just as bad. The Futurists were among the most inept colourists ever to wield paintbrushes, and strangely similar in their effects to some of the worst practitioners of Bolognese Baroque religious painting: lurid, turgid, meaninglessly swirling. Just occasionally you catch a Futurist painting that reminds you in a positive way that these were young men responding to the dynamism of early 20th-century street life: I loved the “Girl Running on a Balcony”, with 20 legs rather than two, by Balla.
The most awful thing about Futurism is that so many of its predictions have come true. We have had an overdose of war and the ideas that kill, and contempt for woman is alive and strong among the Taliban and elsewhere. And “the man at the wheel” sung by Marinetti as the hero of the future has found his impatient and impotent incarnation in the form of the man revving his red Porsche in a motorway jam.
We obviously need a different kind of vision of the future. But even to speak of the future now seems strangely anachronistic. For a while, thinkers and theorists have suggested that we have lost faith in the future. Artists since Warhol have craved 15 minutes of fame rather than the admiration of future generations. The suggestion is that we don’t know how many of those future generations will be born, and perhaps don’t much care either.
All this makes Jem Finer’s Longplayer project, a musical score designed to play or be played for a thousand years, seem quite an eccentric proposition. Longplayer has been edging into my field of view, or hearing, for some years now. It seemed a good moment to catch Finer, best known as the banjo player of the Pogues, rehearsing Longplayer for its first live performance at his hide-out in the far reaches of London’s Docklands (the performance is this weekend at the Roundhouse).
Finer’s idea came out of the shallow celebrations surrounding the turn of the third millennium. “People seemed to be concentrating on three or four days either side of the millennium, not on the span of a thousand years. How do you make sense of a thousand years? I thought I could make a piece of music that would last precisely a thousand years.”
This thought led Finer in interesting directions, many but not all mathematical. The score of Longplayer consists of six melodies played simultaneously on Tibetan singing bowls. Minutely calibrated changes in sequence mean that a full cycle is completed only once in a thousand years. From its inception just after midnight on December 31 1999, Longplayer has been playing in synthesised form. But part of the canniness of Finer’s design is that it incorporates thinking about technological and cultural change.
You could call this thinking both pessimistic and optimistic. Finer does not have any trust that computers and the infrastructure needed to support them will survive for the next thousand years. “I realised what was needed was simple durable elements; human beings playing instruments obeying instructions.” And not just any old instruments; wood and gut decay, strings go out of tune. Tibetan singing bowls, even if not Tibetan but made in a factory in Calcutta, have a better chance of staying the course.
Finer may be quite gloomy about the future – things look much darker than they did 10 years ago – but at the same time he is making a wager that there will be a future. In that sense Longplayer is one of the most heartening projects I have encountered in years. What makes it heartening is not a silly, naive faith in the future, but an ingenious and wisely modest kind of long-term thinking. At a time when, like Goethe’s sorcerer’s apprentice, we have summoned inhuman powers we cannot control, Longplayer is staking its own future on those treacherous, murderous, tender, all-shaping appendages, human hands.
By Harry Eyres
September 10 2009 15:45
Financal Times
I was in no hurry to catch the Futurism exhibition at Tate Modern. Futurism is my least favourite school of 20th century art. Hardly ever in the field of human endeavour has objectionable ideology been so lavishly matched with execrable painting.
To give you a flavour of the former, here are some of the better known statements from Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto of 1909: “We declare that the splendour of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A roaring motor-car which seems to run on machine-gun fire is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace ... We want to glorify war – the only cure for the world – militarism, patriotism ... the beautiful ideas which kill, and contempt for woman.”
This manages to sound both silly and sinister at the same time – rather like PG Wodehouse’s black-shorts-wearing parody of Oswald Mosley, Roderick Spode. And not coincidentally, Marinetti’s Futurism segued seamlessly into Mussolini’s absurd and sinister version of Fascism – a point timidly glossed over in the Tate show.
Most of the art is just as bad. The Futurists were among the most inept colourists ever to wield paintbrushes, and strangely similar in their effects to some of the worst practitioners of Bolognese Baroque religious painting: lurid, turgid, meaninglessly swirling. Just occasionally you catch a Futurist painting that reminds you in a positive way that these were young men responding to the dynamism of early 20th-century street life: I loved the “Girl Running on a Balcony”, with 20 legs rather than two, by Balla.
The most awful thing about Futurism is that so many of its predictions have come true. We have had an overdose of war and the ideas that kill, and contempt for woman is alive and strong among the Taliban and elsewhere. And “the man at the wheel” sung by Marinetti as the hero of the future has found his impatient and impotent incarnation in the form of the man revving his red Porsche in a motorway jam.
We obviously need a different kind of vision of the future. But even to speak of the future now seems strangely anachronistic. For a while, thinkers and theorists have suggested that we have lost faith in the future. Artists since Warhol have craved 15 minutes of fame rather than the admiration of future generations. The suggestion is that we don’t know how many of those future generations will be born, and perhaps don’t much care either.
All this makes Jem Finer’s Longplayer project, a musical score designed to play or be played for a thousand years, seem quite an eccentric proposition. Longplayer has been edging into my field of view, or hearing, for some years now. It seemed a good moment to catch Finer, best known as the banjo player of the Pogues, rehearsing Longplayer for its first live performance at his hide-out in the far reaches of London’s Docklands (the performance is this weekend at the Roundhouse).
Finer’s idea came out of the shallow celebrations surrounding the turn of the third millennium. “People seemed to be concentrating on three or four days either side of the millennium, not on the span of a thousand years. How do you make sense of a thousand years? I thought I could make a piece of music that would last precisely a thousand years.”
This thought led Finer in interesting directions, many but not all mathematical. The score of Longplayer consists of six melodies played simultaneously on Tibetan singing bowls. Minutely calibrated changes in sequence mean that a full cycle is completed only once in a thousand years. From its inception just after midnight on December 31 1999, Longplayer has been playing in synthesised form. But part of the canniness of Finer’s design is that it incorporates thinking about technological and cultural change.
You could call this thinking both pessimistic and optimistic. Finer does not have any trust that computers and the infrastructure needed to support them will survive for the next thousand years. “I realised what was needed was simple durable elements; human beings playing instruments obeying instructions.” And not just any old instruments; wood and gut decay, strings go out of tune. Tibetan singing bowls, even if not Tibetan but made in a factory in Calcutta, have a better chance of staying the course.
Finer may be quite gloomy about the future – things look much darker than they did 10 years ago – but at the same time he is making a wager that there will be a future. In that sense Longplayer is one of the most heartening projects I have encountered in years. What makes it heartening is not a silly, naive faith in the future, but an ingenious and wisely modest kind of long-term thinking. At a time when, like Goethe’s sorcerer’s apprentice, we have summoned inhuman powers we cannot control, Longplayer is staking its own future on those treacherous, murderous, tender, all-shaping appendages, human hands.
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Re: LONG PLAYER
Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:57 am
There's an audio interview with Jem at http://audioboo.fm/boos/62630-jem-finer-the-man-behind-longplayer
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Jem at the transmediale.10 (Berlin), February 2010
Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:43 pm
Jem Finer introducing the Long Conversation
Jem Finer introduces the notion of 'long time', speaking about his composition Longplayer, a piece of music that will play for 1000 years, before repeating itself. In conjunction with Longplayer, Finer will also be participating in the 'Futurity Long Conversation' on Friday Feb. 05 at the HKW.
Interview with Jem
David Link interviews Jem
Jem interviews Alan Shapiro
Jem Finer introduces the notion of 'long time', speaking about his composition Longplayer, a piece of music that will play for 1000 years, before repeating itself. In conjunction with Longplayer, Finer will also be participating in the 'Futurity Long Conversation' on Friday Feb. 05 at the HKW.
Interview with Jem
David Link interviews Jem
Jem interviews Alan Shapiro
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Re: LONG PLAYER
Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:19 pm
Longplayer, was that not an early 70s classic by the Faces?I'll get me coat...... 
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Re: LONG PLAYER
Sat Sep 11, 2010 3:00 am
http://pittsburgh.broadwayworld.com/art ... R_20100909
Looks like those of you in/near Pittsburgh, PA will have a chance to directly experience LONGPLAYER and talk with Jem about it. Cooool.
Looks like those of you in/near Pittsburgh, PA will have a chance to directly experience LONGPLAYER and talk with Jem about it. Cooool.
“I know all those people that were in the film [...] But that’s when they were young and strong and full of life, you know?”
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Re: LONG PLAYER
Mon Oct 04, 2010 1:28 am
DzM wrote:http://pittsburgh.broadwayworld.com/article/Gallery_Crawl_Premieres_LONGPLAYER_20100909
Looks like those of you in/near Pittsburgh, PA will have a chance to directly experience LONGPLAYER and talk with Jem about it. Cooool.
More press on this: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsbu ... 01838.html
Anyone in Pittsburgh going on Friday?
“I know all those people that were in the film [...] But that’s when they were young and strong and full of life, you know?”
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Re: LONG PLAYER
Mon Oct 04, 2010 3:36 am
DzM wrote:DzM wrote:http://pittsburgh.broadwayworld.com/article/Gallery_Crawl_Premieres_LONGPLAYER_20100909
Looks like those of you in/near Pittsburgh, PA will have a chance to directly experience LONGPLAYER and talk with Jem about it. Cooool.
More press on this: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsbu ... 01838.html
Anyone in Pittsburgh going on Friday?
Think that was last Friday boss.
And I don't want no grave
Just throw my ashes in the field
And hope there's some soul left to save
W. E. Whitmore
Just throw my ashes in the field
And hope there's some soul left to save
W. E. Whitmore
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Re: LONG PLAYER
Mon Oct 04, 2010 3:43 am
Clash Cadillac wrote:DzM wrote:Anyone in Pittsburgh going on Friday?
Think that was last Friday boss.
Damn. Looking at the date on a byline is haaaard.
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Re: LONG PLAYER
Sun Mar 31, 2013 5:10 pm
Referenced in an LA Times Article on pop song lengths:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/mu ... 8062.story
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/mu ... 8062.story
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Re: LONG PLAYER
Fri Jun 26, 2015 8:18 am
Mr Finer's Longplayer is now available as an app: http://longplayer.org/news/2015/05/20/longplayer-ios-app/
Now just need to find a phone battery that lasts for a thousand years.
Now just need to find a phone battery that lasts for a thousand years.
Likes the warm feeling but is tired of all the dehydration.
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Re: LONG PLAYER
Wed Nov 02, 2016 11:39 pm
Marina Warner and Ali Smith are discussing Longplayer, 23 Nov. in London. This is part of the Utopia project celebrating 500 years of Thomas More's 1516 work with all kinds of curiosities.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2016 ... 7702370536
http://utopia2016.com/
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2016 ... 7702370536
http://utopia2016.com/
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Re: LONG PLAYER
Thu Dec 14, 2017 11:22 am
Latest from Mr Finer's Longplayer project. In case you're free on NYE:
Season's Greetings from The Longplayer Trust!
To thank you for your continued support we invite you, and your guests, to join us at The Lighthouse, Trinity Buoy Wharf on the 31st December 2017. We'll be marking the passing of another memorable year and welcoming Longplayer's twelve months ahead with all the exciting projects in store.
31 December 2017 11.30am - 2.00pm
Bagels, Cava and soft drinks will be served.
The Lighthouse
Trinity Buoy Wharf
64 Orchard Place
London
E14 0JY
Season's Greetings from The Longplayer Trust!
To thank you for your continued support we invite you, and your guests, to join us at The Lighthouse, Trinity Buoy Wharf on the 31st December 2017. We'll be marking the passing of another memorable year and welcoming Longplayer's twelve months ahead with all the exciting projects in store.
31 December 2017 11.30am - 2.00pm
Bagels, Cava and soft drinks will be served.
The Lighthouse
Trinity Buoy Wharf
64 Orchard Place
London
E14 0JY
Likes the warm feeling but is tired of all the dehydration.
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