Shortplayer Sampler, by Longplayer

Shortplayer Sampler

by Longplayer

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1.	Shortplayer #1: for brass and reeds (excerpt) 04:18	info	buy track
2.	Shortplayer #2: Shortplayer for 7 Guitars (excerpt) 04:28	info	buy track
3.	Shortplayer #3: for tones, bleeps, piano, voices and tuning fork 14:31	info	buy track
4.	Shortplayer #4: for strings, melodica and mallet instruments 30:14	info	buy track
5.	Shortplayer #5: Starfield / LP for Ringing Stars 10:10	info	buy track

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The method of Longplayer’s composition can be regarded as an algorithm whose variables may be changed to create any number of new compositions. In this sense, Longplayer is itself just one of these possible compositions, its title referring directly to its own extreme duration. Conversely, there exist an enormous number of possible compositions in which Longplayer’s variables - duration, notes, instrumentation etc - are adjusted. A composition might last only a very short time – an hour, for instance. Shortplayer is the generic name for these possible short-durational compositions, which can be arranged for any group or combination of instruments and/or voices.

This sampler collects together, for the first time, excerpts and complete performances from the first 5 Shortplayer compositions.

All proceeds go towards helping Longplayer keep playing.

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released August 4, 2023

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Longplayer London, UK

Longplayer is a one thousand year long musical composition. It began playing at midnight on the 31st of December 1999, and will continue to play without repetition until the last moment of 2999, at which point it will complete its cycle and begin again. Conceived and composed by Jem Finer, it was originally produced as an Artangel commission, and is now in the care of the Longplayer Trust. ... more

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