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On Wednesday 21 June 2017, noon until midnight the Longplayer Trust and Goldsmiths, University of London, produced the inaugural Longplayer Day. 

Longplayer Day 2017 was a 12-hour peripatetic cross-disciplinary festival that celebrated the recently announced partnership between Goldsmiths and Longplayer. Events took place across various locations beginning at midday at Goldsmiths (New Cross, London) and concluding at midnight with celebrations at Trinity Buoy Wharf (Poplar, London).

 
 

F U L L P R O G R A M M E

 
Featured
12:00 | Goldsmiths Great Hall
12:00 | Goldsmiths Great Hall

Michael Morris - Introduction

Michael Morris is Co-Director of Artangel and a member of the Longplayer Trust. 

artangel.org.uk

12:20 | Goldsmiths Great Hall
12:20 | Goldsmiths Great Hall

Cathy Haynes – Inaugural Lecture

Cathy Haynes is a curator, artist and writer who was previously Curator for Art on the Underground.

cathyhaynes.org

12:30 | Goldsmiths Great Hall
12:30 | Goldsmiths Great Hall

John Tilbury – ‘Palais De Mari’ by Morton Feldman

John Tilbury is regarded as one of the foremost interpreters of Morton Feldman’s music and has been a member of both AMM and the Scratch Orchestra. 

bit.ly/2r8tC4k

 

12:55 | Goldsmiths Great Hall
12:55 | Goldsmiths Great Hall

Áine O’Dwyer – ‘Piano Transplant No. 1, the permanently prepared piano’ composed by Annea Lockwood

Áine O’Dwyer’s performance on Lockwood’s Piano Transplant No.1, the permanently prepared piano is the first since the work was created in the 1960s. 

bit.ly/2lzw4tt | annealockwood.com

13:25 | Goldsmiths Forecourt
13:25 | Goldsmiths Forecourt

Siswå Sukrå

Siswå Sukrå are a Javanese gamelan group based at the Royal Festival Hall. The group is tutored by Pete Smith, one of the UK’s leading gamelan musicians and teachers.

siswasukra.co.uk

 

14:15 | Green Onions
14:15 | Green Onions

Rosie Bergonzi – ‘Child of Tree’ by John Cage

Improviser and percussionist Rosie Bergonzi will perform John Cage’s I Ching chance-based composition, Child of Tree (1975).

14:45 | Margaret McMillan Park
14:45 | Margaret McMillan Park

The Study Group – ‘Welcoming the Light’ by Pauline Oliveros

The Study Group is a workshop space dedicated to performing artist Pauline Oliveros’ Sonic Meditations. Members include Martina Conti, Stephen Shiell, Artur Vidal and Hannah White. Welcoming the Light was composed by Pauline Oliveros for the Summer Solstice.

15:50 | Res.
15:50 | Res.

John Latham: ‘Erth’ (1971)

John Latham’s seminal film work Erth (1971) collapses space and time, both physically and cinematically into a direct encounter. The screening will be prefaced with an introduction by Gareth Bell-Jones, Curator at Latham’s FTHo.

flattimeho.org.uk

beingres.org

 

16:30 | news of the world
16:30 | news of the world

Adam Scovell (Director): ‘Holloway’ (2017)

A screening of Holloway (2015) directed by Adam Scovell with contributions from Robert MacFarlane, Stanley Donwood, Dan Richards, James Bulley and Richard Skelton. An introductory talk will be given by one of the authors of the Holloway book, Dan Richards.

celluloidwickerman.com

thecentreofattention.org/notw.html

faber.co.uk/9780571302710-holloway.html

 

17:10 | Ferranti Park Bandstand
17:10 | Ferranti Park Bandstand

Blanca Regina & Steve Beresford

Blanca Regina and Steve Beresford’s duo involves completely freely improvised sounds utilising collections of sound-making objects.

whiteemotion.com | efi.group.shef.ac.uk/mberes.html

 

 

 

18:00 | Trinity Royal Naval College
18:00 | Trinity Royal Naval College

Dominic Murcott – ‘Harmonic Canon’

Visitors to the courtyard of Trinity Laban in Greenwich will hear composer Dominic Murcott perform an excerpt from his composition Harmonic Canon, written for Marcus Vergette’s instrument of the same name.

dominicmurcott.com

 

18:40 | Greenwich Foot Tunnel
18:40 | Greenwich Foot Tunnel

Angharad Davies

Violinist and composer Angharad Davies will explore duration and time through a perambulatory performance.

angharaddavies.com

 

19:30 | Newcastle Draw Dock
19:30 | Newcastle Draw Dock

Charles Hayward

Artist and percussionist Charles Hayward will perform on the shoreline of the Thames.

furious.com/perfect/charleshayward.html

 

20:00 | Thames Path
20:00 | Thames Path

Richard Wilson – The Harangue

In performance of The Harangue, Wilson will be accompanied by Sean Dower and Ansuman Biswas.

Richard Wilson is internationally celebrated for his interventions in architectural space which draw heavily for their inspiration from the worlds of engineering and construction.

richardwilsonsculptor.com

Sean Dower produces works in sculpture, photography, film, live performance and sound.

seandower.com

Ansuman Biswas works in a wide variety of media, but his central concern lies between science, work and religion.

ansuman.com

20:40—21:00 | Prime Meridian
20:40—21:00 | Prime Meridian

Tim Spooner

Tim Spooner is a visual artist and performance maker who fuses scientific experimentation together with puppetry.

tspooner.co.uk

21:15 | Trinity Buoy Wharf
21:15 | Trinity Buoy Wharf

John White

John White’s elemental composition Drinking and Hooting Machine for bottles, liquid and breath, will be performed at the end of Longplayer Day.

musicnow.co.uk/composers/white.html

22:00 | Trinity Buoy Wharf
22:00 | Trinity Buoy Wharf

Longplayer

Longplayer is a one thousand year long musical composition and will be accessible throughout the evening. 

longplayer.org

Credits
Curators: Helen Frosi & James Bulley
Assistant Curator: Philip Serfaty
Longplayer Day Assistant: Gregory White
Advisory group: Jem Finer, Iris Garrelfs & John Levack Drever
Graphic design: Joe Hales
Sound recording: Edward Burton, Tim Fletcher, Levack John Drever, Chris Cook