Longplayer Is a Symphony That Will Play for a Thousand Years

Can you imagine what the world will be like in 1,000 years? Yeah, neither can we. But one man has created a piece of music that will still be playing by the end of the next millennium. Composer Jem Finer was always intrigued by the concept of time. So in the year 2000, he decided to commemorate the new millennium by writing “Longplayer”-an everlasting piece of music that repeats every 1,000 years (longplayer.org/). While Finer won't be around in 2999 when the symphony resets, his hope is that it will unite a community of listeners across generations-all connected by the soothing sounds of singing bowls.
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  • @johnobrien3556
    @johnobrien35562 жыл бұрын

    To all those in 2999 looking this up, I hope we found peace and love because 2020 seemed like the downfall.

  • @eltiolavara9

    @eltiolavara9

    Жыл бұрын

    also hoping people calm down in general honestly

  • @LilEuphie

    @LilEuphie

    Жыл бұрын

    If this site is even still a thing

  • @slummyfpsgaming

    @slummyfpsgaming

    Жыл бұрын

    Still fucked in 2023 send help

  • @daddyphatnuts

    @daddyphatnuts

    Жыл бұрын

    Currently typing this from my Mac book pro plus mega extra limited edition laptop from the year 2180 and it doesn’t get better… send help

  • @jamesryer406
    @jamesryer4062 жыл бұрын

    I think I figured it out. It's six pre-recorded tracks of about 20 minutes each of Tibetan singing bowls ringing out. Each track is playing simultaneously but in a different position. Every two minutes, per an algorithm, each track changes position slightly in it's track/duration but designed in a way that there's no interruption in the whole song. This means, the composition will sound different up until the 1000 year mark where it will repeat from the beginning where it started on the 31 Dec 12pm Noon GMT, if that makes any sense. It's not live singing bowls. And it's not even really an art piece about music. It's an art piece about time.

  • @marka.humbergerii3980

    @marka.humbergerii3980

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah I read that in a article too

  • @hippojuice23

    @hippojuice23

    3 ай бұрын

    But do you have 500 didgeridoos?

  • @haibigboy
    @haibigboy7 жыл бұрын

    Can't wait to hear the whole thing when it's uploaded on youtube ^^!

  • @brockfrench
    @brockfrench7 жыл бұрын

    Where can I download the full song?

  • @brockfrench

    @brockfrench

    7 жыл бұрын

    It's okay, I have fast internet.

  • @teenaquarist7158

    @teenaquarist7158

    6 жыл бұрын

    Fast internet isn’t enough, but a nice quantum computer should do the trick

  • @alfred.clement

    @alfred.clement

    6 жыл бұрын

    you need to download more internet

  • @Captain_Reynard

    @Captain_Reynard

    6 жыл бұрын

    for the full song in a 2999. well the upload speed may take a while so I am guessing 3000

  • @lokikaos3777

    @lokikaos3777

    5 жыл бұрын

    Holy shit this comment thread is full of retards

  • @imausum1
    @imausum17 жыл бұрын

    would definitely watch longer documentaries from great big story

  • @ctoacu6188
    @ctoacu61887 жыл бұрын

    The editing in this is flawless, amazing job once again!

  • @jairanimaharaj2849
    @jairanimaharaj28496 жыл бұрын

    The music may last for a thousand years, but this concept shall stand the test of eternity as we know it. Genius!

  • @wheezyouttahere2478
    @wheezyouttahere24787 жыл бұрын

    If I had the instrument I would forever wake my sister up with it at 4AM😅😅😅

  • @joeysukhi6889

    @joeysukhi6889

    7 жыл бұрын

    Chensterical ! woah

  • @lavaproof8137

    @lavaproof8137

    7 жыл бұрын

    Chensterical ! lol amatuer

  • @z.a.p8325
    @z.a.p83257 жыл бұрын

    Getting Interstellar vibes. hope it doesn't get destroyed.

  • @BJGvideos
    @BJGvideos7 жыл бұрын

    Maybe I missed something. Do the bowls play themselves by being in that space or something?

  • @Go3tt3rbot3

    @Go3tt3rbot3

    7 жыл бұрын

    For the Moment its just a livestream. They are researching a way to play it but for them moment, what you see is just a storage for the bowls. >>At present, the mechanical model being pursued is based on the “record player” analogy for Longplayer. Research is ongoing into the design of a Longplayer device consisting of six two-armed turntables, each of a sufficient size to incorporate controlling mechanisms capable of raising, lowering and advancing the arms with adequate precision. This will probably mean building turntables much bigger than the conventional 12 inch - maybe 6 to 12 feet in diameter. This then begs the question as to how records of that size are to be cut, and from what material.

  • @hybridmoze2279

    @hybridmoze2279

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Go3tt3rbot3 what?

  • @madkirk7431

    @madkirk7431

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Go3tt3rbot3 ...

  • @wheezyouttahere2478
    @wheezyouttahere24787 жыл бұрын

    Woah, that's what I call 'heritage' 👌🙂

  • @deadfarang
    @deadfarang2 жыл бұрын

    Who else is listening to this in the year 2999? Or is it just me?

  • @dary_rodriguez

    @dary_rodriguez

    2 жыл бұрын

    3000 here

  • @PiyushSharma-hy2ej

    @PiyushSharma-hy2ej

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lmao

  • @jebsmith323
    @jebsmith3237 жыл бұрын

    Who's playing it? Does someone have to be there for a thousand years? Does it actually make any sound? What's the computer for? Why didn't he explain any of this?

  • @RealMadTime

    @RealMadTime

    5 жыл бұрын

    The computer is used to Synthesise it, so it automatic, noone needs to be there

  • @zmonay333
    @zmonay3334 жыл бұрын

    this video left me with more questions than answers. how are they being played? is it automatic? whats up with the computer? why didn't we get to hear a sample of it in the video?

  • @AndyB1286
    @AndyB12862 жыл бұрын

    Things you may not know: Jem Finer was in The Pogues. He played on all their records, and co-wrote "Fairytale of New York" with Shane MacGowan.

  • @hippojuice23

    @hippojuice23

    Жыл бұрын

    Tin flute, yeah?

  • @neilevans4352

    @neilevans4352

    3 ай бұрын

    @@hippojuice23 no that was spider stacy on the flute, jem wrote a big chunk of fairytale of new york.

  • @minroh4753
    @minroh47537 жыл бұрын

    This looks like a place you would see in mystery novels or movies or stuff like that

  • @switchty4692
    @switchty46926 жыл бұрын

    That sounds like one big audio file

  • @Mu51kM4n
    @Mu51kM4n7 жыл бұрын

    There's need to be a Doctor Who episode that features this

  • @christopherdahl992
    @christopherdahl9927 жыл бұрын

    Nice to believe in a future.

  • @REVUPMEDIA
    @REVUPMEDIA7 жыл бұрын

    i dont get it

  • @asddap

    @asddap

    7 жыл бұрын

    same here

  • @MaeBlythe

    @MaeBlythe

    7 жыл бұрын

    Someone made a plan to make a project that will play one song that lasts one thousand years. This video makes it sound like it's currently happening, but they're still planning it. I was confused too.

  • @flori8320

    @flori8320

    7 жыл бұрын

    It is currently happening, this thing did not stop since its begining (I went there on bank holiday last year and I did hear the the bowls singing)

  • @MaeBlythe

    @MaeBlythe

    7 жыл бұрын

    But how is it happening??

  • @nayafauzia476

    @nayafauzia476

    7 жыл бұрын

    Mae Blythe something to do with the science of sound waves, I guess?

  • @robcat2075
    @robcat20757 жыл бұрын

    Do we ever actually hear the "long player" in this video? What does it sound like? And what's driving it that wont' run out before 1000 years?

  • @maasicas
    @maasicas Жыл бұрын

    I can tell that, this man has a really hard time with letting things go. i'm the same way, he's just more extreme.

  • @FondueBrothers
    @FondueBrothers5 жыл бұрын

    I saw this on tv and this installation is misleading. It was implied that the installation was autonomous and that the bowls were being played by a computer program via some mechanical means. however the bowls are just on display and what we are actually hearing is a short looped recording.

  • @meganlovania
    @meganlovania7 жыл бұрын

    Woah

  • @Corvaire
    @Corvaire7 жыл бұрын

    You may be just playing a tune for an another species in our universe that has a wider time dilatation then our own. ;O)-

  • @cameronealey3274
    @cameronealey32747 жыл бұрын

    what if the power goes out?

  • @thankyouverymochi
    @thankyouverymochi7 жыл бұрын

    at what minute is the symphony played ?

  • @uravergeswiftie3408
    @uravergeswiftie34083 жыл бұрын

    is it on spotify

  • @maheshchary3118
    @maheshchary31186 жыл бұрын

    There is no end for music

  • @VirtualRoadTrip
    @VirtualRoadTrip2 жыл бұрын

    So is this song stored on a computer or is it actually player by some mechanical machine for 1000 years?

  • @opunpunigyamfi9722
    @opunpunigyamfi97222 жыл бұрын

    I'll be long gone before this will be made available to be downloaded from the Internet

  • @johncrossing
    @johncrossing6 жыл бұрын

    I can’t decide whether this is inspired genius or simplistic pretentiousness. It’s the same conundrum about that 4’33” - John Cage thing that’s just four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence.

  • @PiaLorena
    @PiaLorena7 жыл бұрын

    He and John Cage's organ would make a good orchestra.

  • @nidzho246
    @nidzho2466 жыл бұрын

    iTunes?

  • @johnmendoza7440
    @johnmendoza74407 жыл бұрын

    yeah

  • @davidsanderson5918
    @davidsanderson59183 жыл бұрын

    So what IS the actual piece? How many parts? How many bowls? How long's each part? How long before the next part comes in out of phase with the first? How long before the part after that comes in? Why is it a thousand years? Why not twelve hundred years? I know as much about the piece at the end as I did at the start of the clip.

  • @WildanMubarok

    @WildanMubarok

    2 жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/p5yot7uzpcW4eLg.html

  • @ZXSpectrumHotel
    @ZXSpectrumHotel2 жыл бұрын

    Can I download an MP3? And why it sounds like one of the Minecraft CDs?

  • @ranmindyt2902
    @ranmindyt29023 жыл бұрын

    Cool

  • @MrTalklikeapirate
    @MrTalklikeapirate2 жыл бұрын

    So many unanswered questions in this story! How does it play? What does the song sound like? Who plays it, and on what? Such an interesting story but this video has gaping holes in it.

  • @theplatypuslegacy2.075
    @theplatypuslegacy2.0757 жыл бұрын

    wow they didn't disable the comments surprising

  • @BaBooTubeVideos

    @BaBooTubeVideos

    6 жыл бұрын

    The Platypus Legacy 2.0 Why is that suprising?

  • @Alex-cw3rz

    @Alex-cw3rz

    6 жыл бұрын

    I wish they had the amount of dumb comments are hurting my brain

  • @sborkoski8248
    @sborkoski82482 жыл бұрын

    Would haveliked to hear more of the music and let thestory telling be left out or on another tract.

  • @twitch.101
    @twitch.1016 жыл бұрын

    Where is longplayer performed?

  • @riviel3845
    @riviel38457 жыл бұрын

    Lol this is the earliest I've ever been

  • @threegreencharms
    @threegreencharms Жыл бұрын

    Strategy for making a song that will play for 1,000 years: Slow--One note every 30 seconds

  • @chloemun589
    @chloemun5897 жыл бұрын

    Like Halberstadt

  • @yosserhughes139
    @yosserhughes1392 жыл бұрын

    I bought the extended version disco remix.

  • @legoman-ue8zs
    @legoman-ue8zs7 жыл бұрын

    Is this song called A Thousand Years, Perhaps?

  • @elicollins3112
    @elicollins31127 жыл бұрын

    Noti squadd

  • @Poetnow
    @Poetnow2 жыл бұрын

    In Germany we say,, ehrenmann''

  • @oknok8010
    @oknok80107 жыл бұрын

    It's a 1000years clock

  • @finsrgn
    @finsrgn7 жыл бұрын

    That's a very odd shelf

  • @marcorodvas
    @marcorodvas7 жыл бұрын

    i didnt understand anything

  • @syed2194
    @syed21947 жыл бұрын

    Cover Tim Rowett the toy man

  • @smithmiranga
    @smithmiranga4 ай бұрын

    Hello people of 2999 ... preserve humanity no matter what the cost.

  • @Sunny-vv3gg
    @Sunny-vv3gg2 жыл бұрын

    This comment’s section is the best😂🤣it really made me laft

  • @thisisahumanlol8255
    @thisisahumanlol82553 жыл бұрын

    Someone is going to accidentally knock over it

  • @JCJason
    @JCJason7 жыл бұрын

    Still not early :/

  • @ggarzagarcia
    @ggarzagarcia7 жыл бұрын

    kinda looks like Chinese yellow bell tone, except super mathematics and super small version of bells.

  • @MelancholyMadoka
    @MelancholyMadoka3 жыл бұрын

    Who else is watching in 2999?

  • @michaelaquino23

    @michaelaquino23

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hoping that I am still alive on that year😅

  • @andreawagner4461
    @andreawagner44616 жыл бұрын

    Illuminati confirmed love your videos

  • @ericperez6449
    @ericperez6449 Жыл бұрын

    Does it ever really end? Just think. Who's playing it right now??? And where do they pick up from?🤣

  • @user-zq2wn6tn1y
    @user-zq2wn6tn1y7 жыл бұрын

    theres a reason why the new transitioning video comments were diaabled

  • @granttherock9121
    @granttherock91212 жыл бұрын

    Here’s my own little masterpiece, to be read aloud by a choir on the note Eb in the year 42069: (like a sarcastic dingus) “Big Fucking Whoop”

  • @trrpin
    @trrpin7 жыл бұрын

    0.o

  • @EasterbunbunAJ
    @EasterbunbunAJ7 жыл бұрын

    Pls post moar!!!!!

  • @hawkie2216
    @hawkie22167 жыл бұрын

    What

  • @elbrayanqebinquispecondori
    @elbrayanqebinquispecondori3 жыл бұрын

    Imagine being copyrighted for it lol

  • @daphenomenalz4100

    @daphenomenalz4100

    3 жыл бұрын

    🤣🤣🤣

  • @pnea7253
    @pnea72537 жыл бұрын

    No dislikes Let's keep it that way, shall we? ☺

  • @aidenkirsch8661

    @aidenkirsch8661

    7 жыл бұрын

    Too soon.

  • @hermes5558

    @hermes5558

    7 жыл бұрын

    There's 11 dislikes now. Shall we hunt them down?

  • @awfullygenericname6783

    @awfullygenericname6783

    7 жыл бұрын

    PNEA nope we got 16

  • @kino166

    @kino166

    7 жыл бұрын

    18 now

  • @keeziadotimas676

    @keeziadotimas676

    7 жыл бұрын

    19 :(

  • @claytoncaple
    @claytoncaple7 жыл бұрын

    I rather watch KZread than Netflix! Does anyone else agree?

  • @kevingarnett7366

    @kevingarnett7366

    7 жыл бұрын

    Clayton Caple no

  • @comicsarethebest8626

    @comicsarethebest8626

    7 жыл бұрын

    nope

  • @jamiemasangkay3357

    @jamiemasangkay3357

    7 жыл бұрын

    not in a thousand years

  • @samjackson2955

    @samjackson2955

    7 жыл бұрын

    you must not get laid huh?

  • @johnmurry9826

    @johnmurry9826

    7 жыл бұрын

    i kinda feel bad for him

  • @manzipe
    @manzipe7 жыл бұрын

    00

  • @MrJasonvanbrusselen
    @MrJasonvanbrusselen2 жыл бұрын

    Doesn't look like it's being played all the time to me !

  • @theringmaster635
    @theringmaster6353 жыл бұрын

    chale no hablo taka taka :'c

  • @get_hard5867
    @get_hard58677 жыл бұрын

    the real question is can I play all star with it?

  • @AndrewRock3431

    @AndrewRock3431

    7 жыл бұрын

    Shed

  • @doomsdaymachiene91
    @doomsdaymachiene917 жыл бұрын

    ñah

  • @msivideo135
    @msivideo1354 ай бұрын

    Dear Future Human or any other species 3000. I am from 2024. Count me in.😊

  • @simundugandzic8056
    @simundugandzic80567 жыл бұрын

    Sta je to

  • @natalijacakovan174

    @natalijacakovan174

    7 жыл бұрын

    Marija Dugandzic niko ne zna

  • @sudhirchaudhary6512
    @sudhirchaudhary65123 жыл бұрын

    Who's reading my comment in 2999??

  • @bobbyshmudra9225
    @bobbyshmudra92257 жыл бұрын

    Wait...what?

  • @hogcranker123
    @hogcranker1237 жыл бұрын

    wait if its not playing currently then why do they claim it has since 1999? gake and fay

  • @caution60
    @caution607 жыл бұрын

    I don't get it

  • @jeffcarlin5866
    @jeffcarlin5866 Жыл бұрын

    My prediction? An earthquake will disrupt this "song."

  • @Whiskey_Zombie
    @Whiskey_Zombie6 жыл бұрын

    Look out, buddy put bowls on a shelf, gonna take you 1000 years to figure out the song. Someone's good at bullshitting their art projects

  • @mikecustoms1382
    @mikecustoms13827 жыл бұрын

    3rd

  • @maddisonreid29
    @maddisonreid293 жыл бұрын

    bible project

  • @br.andonn11
    @br.andonn117 жыл бұрын

    first 33 to comment

  • @jeremiahjennings4476
    @jeremiahjennings44767 жыл бұрын

    I love how they disabled comments on the trans gender video

  • @techtitanuk5609
    @techtitanuk56093 жыл бұрын

    Seems like a waste of money

  • @Keniya05
    @Keniya057 жыл бұрын

    first😀😀😁

  • @butteredbananas1394

    @butteredbananas1394

    7 жыл бұрын

    Keniya Wadley No someone said hi one minute before you. xD But it was close.

  • @tyronerodgers
    @tyronerodgers8 ай бұрын

    Crap. No one will ever know of it come year 3000

  • @AlphaSerpentis
    @AlphaSerpentis7 жыл бұрын

    Hi

  • @benmhart4706
    @benmhart47067 жыл бұрын

    This is what we watch this channel for. Not transgender propaganda.

  • @geico105

    @geico105

    7 жыл бұрын

    lol

  • @tomellsworth7735

    @tomellsworth7735

    7 жыл бұрын

    Comments are disabled for this video.

  • @peterx7923
    @peterx79235 жыл бұрын

    Boring and pretentious.

  • @inferno2k425
    @inferno2k4257 жыл бұрын

    Hi

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