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A piece of computer-generated music designed to be played for 1,000 years will be performed live tomorrow for the first time since the project began a decade ago.
Jem Finer, an artist and founder member of The Pogues, will be joined by musicians and 32 Tibetan singing bowls placed in six concentric circles to play a 1,000-minute segment of the work, Longplayer, at the Roundhouse in Camden.
The work has been playing in digital form at a listening post in Docklands since 31 December 1999.
Finer said it was exciting to do it for real: "I think there will be periods that could be very dull and there will be periods that will be extraordinary."
Longplayer is made up of part of a 20-minute "source" piece of Tibetan singing bowl music being played every two minutes from a different starting point.
Finer, 54, of Kentish Town, wrote a "score" for the computer-generated music and will perform it from 8.20am tomorrow.
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Anyone who has sat through a Coldplay album will know what this sounds like already.
- Nobby Clark, Perth, the Scottish one, 11/09/2009 15:28
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Since the project began a decade ago?
Bit of a way to go then!
- Frank, Home Counties, England., 11/09/2009 13:34
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