Longplayer Live London

Hear a section of a 1000 year long piece of music performed on the world's largest musical instrument at the Longplayer Live London concert. Taking place at The Roundhouse, the performance sees a part of the thousand year long composition played on a series of six concentric circles of Tibetan Singing Bowls.

Landmark event
Playing for a 1000 minutes at the popular Victorian venue, the Longplayer Live London event features over 16 hours of Jem Finer's 1000 year long musical composition. The work originally began playing at midnight on 31st December 2009, and is due to finish in the last moments of the year 2999.

Different pace of life
Want to take a moment or two to reflect on the nature of time? The Longplayer Live London performance aims to encourage its audience to contemplate the size and scale of the piece of work, and how the score will be played, listened to and understood in hundreds of years' time. Longplayer was originally commissioned by innovative creative body Artangel, and it is planned to be played without pause or repetition for a whole millennium.

World's largest musical instrument
The Longplayer Live London recital at The Roundhouse takes place on a 25 metre musical instrument, reported to be the largest of its kind in the world. The instrument is made from six interlinking circles of Tibetan Singing Bowls which provide a range of different pitches and tones for the musical installation.

Longplayer Conversations
Alongside the music installation at the Roundhouse, visitors will be able to move away from the performances to a discussion space where pairs of speakers will broadcast musings over the issues surrounding long term thinking and the implications of deep time. Contributors include Jeanette Winterson, Susie Orbach, Bonnie Greer, Ruth Padel, Mark Haddon, Robert Peston and Sophie Fiennes.

The Longplayer Live London performance runs from 8.20am - 1am, Saturday 12th September 2009, while the Longplayer Conversations run from 10am - 10pm. Standard admission is £15.00; concessions are £12.50.

Visitors will be given a day long ticket so that they can come and go throughout the performance. For more information and to book your tickets, call The Roundhouse box office on 0207 424 9992.

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