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ABC Wednesday reaches the letter "L".
Among the many interesting events and ideas at the annual Future Everything Festival (which ended on Tuesday) was this installation which played a piece of music called Longplayer. It started as 1999 ended and will run for 1,000 years until the year 2999...
The festival then is very much one of social empowerment and harnessing the internet for change and democracy, something all bloggers will be very much aware of. We as individuals can set the agendas, not just the corporates and governments.
"...will look at how we can collaborate on new tools, devices and systems to transform many spheres of life, from the arts to democracy. People taking control of tools to shape the future has been a familiar trope within digital culture. Drawing on powerful currents in today’s design scene such as speculative design and design fiction, the festival will debate our fascination with tools as the most natural path towards social change, and open up new ways to question, imagine and make the strange, troubled thing called the future."
Sounds like an interesting project. Carver, ABC Wed. Team
ReplyDeleteThat is a song you will never hear twice!
ReplyDeleteMust be an interesting exhibit!
ReplyDeleteIs it one of those single note played, silence for four or five years, next note sort of thing?
ReplyDeleteThe section I heard suggested it's an ambient piece William, almost like listening to nature- wonderful stuff.
DeleteLP means long-playing, compared with those old 78s.
ReplyDeleteROG, ABCW
Lucky there is nobody around in about 1000 years to check it.
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