Longplayer: a thousand years of music in your pocket!
Not recommended for versions of iPhone lower than iPhone 5.
Longplayer is a musical composition that has been playing since the beginning of the year 2000, and will play on, never repeating, until it reaches the point at which it first started, exactly 1000 years later. Longplayer is in effect an everlasting piece of music; its score mirrors a planetary system, six musical events whose orbits come into phase once a millennium.
Until now, Longplayer has only been accessible by visiting a handful of "listening posts" or via an online stream.
This app is the first standalone version of Longplayer, creating the music in real time based on the composition's thousand-year-long score. It requires no data connection and automatically synchronises itself with every other copy of the app across the globe. With this app, you become part of a community of listeners distributed through space and time, across many lifetimes.
- real time high-quality playback of Longplayer, with no need for a data connection
- plays in the background: listen to Longplayer while you continue to use other apps, and while your phone is locked.
- real time score display
- graphic and textual information explaining how it works
- detailed information section about Longplayer's history, development, composition, conceptual background and much more
- up-to-date news from the Longplayer website (data connection required)
Recommended for headphones or external speakers.
Watch a short video explaining Longplayer: http://vimeo.com/94166447
Longplayer was composed by Jem Finer and commissioned by Artangel in 1995. It is now in the care of the Longplayer Trust.
I first heard about Longplayer 15 years ago during a London visit. Evolving from the original listening posts, the ability to now walk and listen to the composition ‘live’ on my iPhone is a marvel. I often have the app running for hours at a time, streamed through a Bose speaker at home. I’ve gifted the app a number of times to friends and family, all have enjoyed it. A version of the app for AppleTV would be appreciated. Namaste.
Love the concept and sounds - App has a problem
doodersnickle
I just recently learned about Longplayer and I think it’s a brilliant concept and a lovely thing to listen to. The app itself is pretty basic. It’s cool to see how the Longplayer loop was made and to see where it’s at in real time and I love that it plays in the background if you go to some other apps. My issue is that, if you switch to another app that requires sound, while it’s playing, the sound goes off (that part makes sense) unfortunately, after this happens the only way to get Longplayer to start playing sound again is to restart my phone. I wish there was a reload button or something like that. I would give it five stars, but I’ve had it the app less than 24 hours and I’ve had this problem three times already. Hoping someone will do an update before the thousand years is up.
Expanding the Universe of Composition
Henry Lowengard
Longplayer is a musical composition not unlike the Voyager space probes - designed to travel beyond human lifetimes and possibly human cultural lifetimes. This app will let you listen in on this moments' segment of the composition as it unfolds, without the need to travel to the Longplayer installation site in London. It also displays a diagram which shows you where you are in the score, and includes notes and news about the project. I plan to run it on a number of devices, so it's good that it's designed for both iPad and iPhone!
Everyone needs this.
MYNMZLIZ
Listening to the Longplayer project reminds me that there are still brilliant, beautiful, amazing, things in this world.
The developer, The Longplayer Trust, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
Seller
The Longplayer Trust
Size
73.7 MB
Category
Music
Compatibility
Requires iOS 7.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 7.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 7.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 7.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
