JEM FINER
Longplayer
Essays by Kodwo Eshun, Janna Levin and Margaret and Christine Wertheim
The Longplayer book recounts the journey from composer Jem Finer's first idea for a thousand-year-long piece of music, in the back of a bus in 1995, to its realisation in two listening posts in Sydney, Australia, and London, England, on 31 December 1999. This unique book combines diagrams, jottings and calculations from Finer's personal notebooks with essays by Kodwo Eshun, Janna Levin and Margaret and Christine Wertheim, who discuss notions of time, science, religion and music. The texts are accompanied by a vinyl record containing four musical fragments from Longplayer.
ISBN: 1 902201 12 4
Published by Artangel, London.
60 pages, 5 colour, 55 b/w.
315mm x 315mm,
soft cover.
price: £20.00
order no: AA 16
The listening post is open to the public at Trinity Buoy Wharf Lighthouse, Orchard Place, London E14 on the first weekend of the month from 11.00am until dusk.
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