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Only 980 years to go! Parties and fears as 1,000-year-long piece of music turns 20 – The Guardian
Longplayer is a millennium-long composition by Jem Finer that harnesses the sound of Tibetan singing bowls. But, as it turns 20, the Pogues star is wondering how it can make it to the year 3,000
On the stroke of midnight on New Years Eve 1999, an eerie music began to ring out across east London from an old lighthouse on the Thames. Though you wouldnt have guessed from the widely spaced notes, it was composed by Jem Finer, best known as co-creator of the Pogues Fairytale of New York. In ambition as well as tempo, Longplayer could hardly be more different from the rackety Christmas perennial. Harnessing the pure sound of Tibetan singing bowls, this new composition was programmed to run fo…
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