Longplayer app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: The Longplayer Trust
First release : 22 Jun 2015
App size: 70.05 Mb
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 compositions 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 Longplayers 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.
Latest reviews of Longplayer app for iPhone and iPad
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 its good that its designed for both iPad and iPhone!
Longplayer is both aesthetic and informative. The music is very simple, peaceful, and hypnotizing. Its pretty humbling to know youll only hear less than a hundred thousandth of it in your lifetime. If I was a different consumer who was not familiar with Longplayer, I would probably not be willing to pay the steep price tag.