This year, the Artangel Longplayer Conversation will be between Richard Maybe and Richard Holloway. Mabey is a celebrated writer about nature and our relationship to it. His most recent books include Turned Out Nice Again, Living With the Weather and Weeds: The Story of Outlaw Plants. Holloway, a writer, broadcaster and self-proclaimed ‘agnostic Christian’, was…
Read Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s letter to Stewart Brand here. Artangel and the Longplayer Trust are inviting thinkers and writers from a wide variety of disciplines to engage in a chain of written correspondence on the subject of long-term thinking. Unfolding slowly over time, the Artangel Longplayer Letters will form a written conversation in which each…
The Trinity Buoy Wharf lighthouse now houses a shelving installation, designed by Ingrid Hu, to display the singing bowls used in the live performances of Longplayer. Each tier of the structure, containing 39 bowls positioned sequentially, corresponds to one of the six concentric rings of the Longplayer Live instrument. Photograph by James Whitaker
A new HD version of Jem Finer’s timelapse film of the first live Longplayer performance, September 9th 2009. 1000 minutes in 1000 seconds. Longplayer Live London 2009 : 1000 seconds from Longplayer on Vimeo.
The first bowl from the 6th circle has been named, 6.03. For more information about naming bowls and supporting Longplayer visit this page. Many thanks to David Jennings.