On the first morning of the new millennium, January 1st 2000, people strolling around the London docklands began to hear something.
Gentle high bell sound followed by soft tinkling began to emanate from loudspeakers at the disused Trinity Buoy Wharf Lighthouse in London’s Docklands. This was the start of not only the year 2000 and whatever lay beyond, but also the start of Jem Finer’s Longplayer, a 1,000-year-long composition made from recordings of Tibetan prayer bowls, looped and stretched by a computer and programmed to never repeat until 2999.
