https://longplayer.org/listen/live-stream/
Singing bowls
1000 year instrument
Supposedly ‘future’ proof
I would prefer it if they didn’t acknowledge that the lighthouse won’t stand for 1000 years - like if it was this impossible thing.
Jem Finer (from the Pogues) ArtAngel (2000): ‘Punk idea that we don’t actually know how to play traditional irish instruments (no-one does) but we’re going to give it a good go and in that we add to the canon’
Techno-barbariansim?
Phase relationships: 1, 3, 5, 7, 11 (primes)
Why did he stick with ‘1000’ years when using seconds? also with 1000 seconds and 1000 minutes for voices. There’s still this whiff of the metric, the metre, (meter, ha). But it’s probably to do with the millenium.
But 60 seconds are derived from the Babylonian sexadecimal system: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-time-division-days-hours-minutes/
Does Jem Finer/Artangel know this? That he is ignoring that we are already technobarbarians, using a Babylonian divison that feels normal and natural to us - like feet and inches? Does he know that the French tried decimal time and it was a f-in nightmare?
https://www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg25033344-200-why-hasnt-time-been-decimalised/
