Longplayer is a composition/sound installation meant to be played over a millennium. Created by Jem Finer, its current home is the lighthouse at Trinity Bay Wharf in London. It is performed through singing bowls and notated through concentric circles. Highlighted segments shift to signify which cluster of bowls should played at what time. It is an immersive space with the perpetuity of its score giving the piece an “alive” quality. I particularly enjoyed the mental and spiritual exercise of contemplating Longplayer’s permanence. The nature of its composition accounts for the real-world passage of time. Therefore even when silent Longplayer is still “playing”. While its physical home, the people who tend to it, and the social context in which people confront it will change, it never ceases to exist. The notion that it may even live through the inner space of those who encounter it is exciting. Steven Conner in “Ears Have Walls” asked: “How can sound be experienced as at once the diffuser and the builder of bounded place?” I believe Longplayer fascinatingly does both. It demands the manipulation of physical space to facilitate its survival, yet inherently makes the audience engage with it being unbound from the physical world. It is a fascinating piece of work that intimately brings forth its listener’s personal relationship with sound.