A live performance of a 1000 minute section of Longplayer is currently in the planning stages.

It will be played on a 25 metre wide instrument made up of six concentric circles of Tibetan Singing Bowls.

Based on Jem Finer’s graphic score for 234 bowls and six players (see left), the concert is scheduled to take place at The Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, London, in September 2009.

In order to fund the building of this instrument and the production of the event, The Longplayer Trust is inviting donations on a bowl-by-bowl basis. When you fund a bowl, it will be engraved with a word of your choice and a premium ticket for the performance will be reserved in your name.

6th Circle: Contrabass
£1000

Please choose a bowl6.01 - B - 123.5 hz6.02 - B - 123.5 hz6.03 - F# - 94 hz6.04 - B - 123.5 hz6.05 - B - 123.5 hz6.06 - B - 115.5 hz6.07 - A - 442.5 hz6.08 - B - 123.5 hz6.09 - Bb - 115.5 hz6.10 - Bb - 231.5 hz6.11 - Bb - 231.5 hz6.12 - Bb - 231.5 hz6.13 - Eb - 321.5 hz6.14 - F# - 191 hz6.15 - C# - 278.5 hz6.16 - Bb - 456 hz6.17 - B - 123.5 hz6.18 - B - 123.5 hz6.19 - A - 55 hz6.20 - Eb - 604 hz6.21 - Bb - 231.5 hz6.22 - A - 440 hz6.23 - C# - 1098 hz6.24 - C - 64.5 hz6.25 - F - 366 hz6.26 - F - 45.5 hz6.27 - C - 135.5 hz6.28 - F# - 92.5 hz6.29 - C - 64.5 hz6.30 - C - 517.5 hz6.31 - F# - 191 hz6.32 - Bb - 231.5 hz6.33 - F# - 191 hz6.34 - Bb - 228.5 hz6.35 - A - 432 hz6.36 - F# - 188 hz6.37 - F# - 92.5 hz6.38 - A - 434.5 hz6.39 - Eb - 77.5 hz 

5th Circle: Bass
£500

Please choose a bowl5.01 - E - 164.502 hz5.02 - E - 164.502 hz5.03 - B - 125.208 hz5.04 - E - 164.502 hz5.05 - E - 164.502 hz5.06 - E - 153.846 hz5.07 - D - 589.41 hz5.08 - E - 164.502 hz5.09 - Eb - 153.846 hz5.10 - Eb - 308.358 hz5.11 - Eb - 308.358 hz5.12 - Eb - 308.358 hz5.13 - G# - 428.238 hz5.14 - B - 254.412 hz5.15 - F# - 370.962 hz5.16 - Eb - 607.392 hz5.17 - E - 164.502 hz5.18 - E - 164.502 hz5.19 - D - 73.26 hz5.20 - G# - 804.528 hz5.21 - Eb - 308.358 hz5.22 - D - 586.08 hz5.23 - F# - 1462.53 hz5.24 - F - 85.914 hz5.25 - Bb - 487.512 hz5.26 - Bb - 60.606 hz5.27 - F - 180.486 hz5.28 - B - 123.21 hz5.29 - F - 85.914 hz5.30 - F - 689.31 hz5.31 - B - 254.412 hz5.32 - Eb - 308.358 hz5.33 - B - 254.412 hz5.34 - Eb - 304.362 hz5.35 - D - 575.424 hz5.36 - B - 250.416 hz5.37 - B - 123.21 hz5.38 - D - 578.754 hz5.39 - G# - 103.23 hz 

4th Circle: Baritone
£250

Please choose a bowl4.01 - F# - 185.25 hz4.02 - F# - 185.25 hz4.03 - C# - 141 hz4.04 - F# - 185.25 hz4.05 - F# - 185.25 hz4.06 - F# - 173.25 hz4.07 - E - 663.75 hz4.08 - F# - 185.25 hz4.09 - F - 173.25 hz4.10 - F - 347.25 hz4.11 - F - 347.25 hz4.12 - F - 347.25 hz4.13 - Bb - 482.25 hz4.14 - C# - 286.5 hz4.15 - G# - 417.75 hz4.16 - F - 684 hz4.17 - F# - 185.25 hz4.18 - F# - 185.25 hz4.19 - E - 82.5 hz4.20 - Bb - 906 hz4.21 - F - 347.25 hz4.22 - E - 660 hz4.23 - G# - 1647 hz - ‘atelierone’4.24 - G - 96.75 hz4.25 - C - 549 hz4.26 - C - 68.25 hz4.27 - G - 203.25 hz4.28 - C# - 138.75 hz4.29 - G - 96.75 hz4.30 - G - 776.25 hz4.31 - C# - 286.5 hz4.32 - F - 347.25 hz4.33 - C# - 286.5 hz4.34 - F - 342.75 hz4.35 - E - 648 hz4.36 - C# - 282 hz4.37 - C# - 138.75 hz4.38 - E - 651.75 hz4.39 - Bb - 116.25 hz 

3rd Circle: Tenor
£150

Please choose a bowl3.01 - B - 247 hz3.02 - B - 247 hz3.03 - F# - 188 hz3.04 - B - 247 hz3.05 - B - 247 hz3.06 - B - 231 hz3.07 - A - 885 hz3.08 - B - 247 hz3.09 - Bb - 231 hz3.10 - Bb - 463 hz3.11 - Bb - 463 hz3.12 - Bb - 463 hz3.13 - Eb - 643 hz - ‘TRUST’3.14 - F# - 382 hz3.15 - C# - 557 hz - ‘AROIS’3.16 - Bb - 912 hz3.17 - B - 247 hz3.18 - B - 247 hz3.19 - A - 110 hz3.20 - Eb - 1208 hz3.21 - Bb - 463 hz3.22 - A - 880 hz3.23 - C# - 2196 hz3.24 - C - 129 hz3.25 - F - 732 hz3.26 - F - 91 hz3.27 - C - 271 hz3.28 - F# - 185 hz3.29 - C - 129 hz3.30 - C - 1035 hz3.31 - F# - 382 hz3.32 - Bb - 463 hz3.33 - F# - 382 hz3.34 - Bb - 457 hz3.35 - A - 864 hz3.36 - F# - 376 hz3.37 - F# - 185 hz3.38 - A - 869 hz3.39 - Eb - 155 hz 

2nd Circle: Alto
£100

Please choose a bowl2.01 - E - 329.251 hz2.02 - E - 329.251 hz2.03 - B - 250.604 hz2.04 - E - 329.251 hz2.05 - E - 329.251 hz2.06 - E - 307.923 hz2.07 - D - 1179.70 hz2.08 - E - 329.251 hz2.09 - Eb - 307.923 hz2.10 - Eb - 617.179 hz2.11 - Eb - 617.179 hz2.12 - Eb - 617.179 hz2.13 - G# - 857.119 hz2.14 - B - 509.206 hz2.15 - F# - 742.481 hz2.16 - Eb - 1215.69 hz2.17 - E - 329.251 hz2.18 - E - 329.251 hz2.19 - D - 146.63 hz2.20 - G# - 1610.26 hz2.21 - Eb - 617.179 hz2.22 - D - 1173.04 hz2.23 - F# - 2927.26 hz2.24 - F - 171.957 hz2.25 - Bb - 975.756 hz2.26 - Bb - 121.303 hz2.27 - F - 361.243 hz2.28 - B - 246.605 hz2.29 - F - 171.957 hz2.30 - F - 1379.65 hz2.31 - B - 509.206 hz2.32 - Eb - 617.179 hz2.33 - B - 509.206 hz2.34 - Eb - 609.181 hz2.35 - D - 1151.71 hz2.36 - B - 501.208 hz2.37 - B - 246.605 hz2.38 - D - 1158.37 hz2.39 - G# - 206.615 hz - ‘atelierone’ 

1st Circle: Soprano
£50

Please choose a bowl1.01 - F# - 370.5 hz1.02 - F# - 370.5 hz1.03 - C# - 282 hz1.04 - F# - 370.5 hz1.05 - F# - 370.5 hz1.06 - F# - 346.5 hz1.07 - E - 1327.5 hz1.08 - F# - 370.5 hz1.09 - F - 346.5 hz1.10 - F - 694.5 hz1.11 - F - 694.5 hz1.12 - F - 694.5 hz1.13 - Bb - 964.5 hz1.14 - C# - 573 hz1.15 - G# - 835.5 hz1.16 - F - 1368 hz1.17 - F# - 370.5 hz1.18 - F# - 370.5 hz1.19 - E - 165 hz1.20 - Bb - 1812 hz1.21 - F - 694.5 hz1.22 - E - 1320 hz1.23 - G# - 3294 hz1.24 - G - 193.5 hz1.25 - C - 1098 hz1.26 - C - 136.5 hz1.27 - G - 406.5 hz1.28 - C# - 277.5 hz1.29 - G - 193.5 hz1.30 - G - 1552.5 hz1.31 - C# - 573 hz1.32 - F - 694.5 hz1.33 - C# - 573 hz1.34 - F - 685.5 hz1.35 - E - 1296 hz1.36 - C# - 564 hz1.37 - C# - 277.5 hz1.38 - E - 1303.5 hz1.39 - Bb - 232.5 hz 

After receiving your donation through paypal or bank transfer you will be sent a receipt and confirmation. You may also choose your inscription now or at a later date. Longplayer is a charitable trust, Registered Charity no. 108 7243.

If you don’t wish to buy a bowl but are still interested in supporting Lonplayer, please consider making a donation via our paypal account or bank transfer.

Live Performance, Graphical Score

While it plays on in its digital form, Longplayer was conceived as a project which would sustain itself in the near and distant future by seeking new and adaptive strategies for its own continued existence. Research into non-electrical, mechanical and organic implementations of Longplayer began at the time of the project’s initial conception, and both the composer and the Trust have always regarded the original and present day computer-operated Longplayer system as a first (and almost certainly temporary) step in a long process of development and evolution.

Among the suggested systems for the ‘playing’ of Longplayer is a live arrangement for six musicians and 234 Tibetan bowls of varying sizes and pitches. For this, Finer has produced a graphical score (above), by which the deceptively simple system of advancing loops of which Longplayer is composed can be accurately reproduced by live performers.

Longplayer's composition is based on a system in which six sections from a piece of source music are played simultaneously, five of them transposed to different pitches. In the graphic score these find material form as an arrangement of six concentric circular tables, on which are arrayed precisely tuned bowls carefully spaced to correspond with the looped waveform of the original source music.

Beyond the 2009 performance, our long term ambition is to find a permanent home for this orchestral installation, where it can play on into the foreseeable and unforeseeable future.