JEM FINERS LONGPLAYER INVITES THE LISTENER INTO A PASSAGE IN TIME. CONSTRUCTED OF 234 TIBETAN SINGING BOWLS, ARRANGED IN 6 CONCENTRIC RINGS, LONGPLAYER IS A CONVERSATION OF RESONANCE, A MESSAGE OF TRANQUILITY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS AND A QUESTION ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FUTURE WHILE REFLECTING THE PAST. THE PRIMAUDIAL SINGING OF LONGPLAYER ACTS AS A CATALYST OF REMEMBERING OUR PAST, THE IMPORTANCE OF ARCHAIC VALUES AND THE ECHO OF TIME WE HEAR THROUGH MUSIC AND SOUND. THIS TRANSPORTIVE PIECE OF MUSIC IN WHICH ITS CREATOR JEM FINER, CREATED IN TO LAST ONE THOUSANDS YEARS, IT’S HOME ON THE DIGITAL ETHER ALLOWS FOR THIS PIECE OF MUSIC TO BE HEARD BY ANYONE AND EVERYONE AT ANY GIVEN TIME.

HOUSED IN A FITTING LOCATION OF A LIGHTHOUSE INTO CATHARSIS BEGINS CANNING TOWN, MY FIRST EXPERIENCE OF LONGPLAYER WAS OF SOLITUDE. AS A LIFE LONG FAN OF DRONE AND AMBIENT, LONGPLAYER STARTING TO WORK AS A CANVAS FOR IDEAS, IT ALLOWS SPACE FOR DEEP MEDATIVE THINKING, DISASSOCIATION AND INTROSPECTION. ITS ARRANGEMENT IS CYCLICAL, MIRRORING THE NATURE OF LIFE, AN AUDIBLE OUROBOROS EXPERIENCE OF GENTLE REMINDERS OF THE FRAGILITY OF LIFE YET THE SEEMINGLY INFINITE AND PERMANENT STATE OF THE UNIVERSE, EVER GROWING EVER CHANGING, TIME WAITS FOR NO MAN.

NOW PASSED DOWN THROUGH A LINEAGE OF RESPONSIBILITY THE DAUGHTERS OF JEM FINER ACTS AS ITS AMBASSADORS CARETAKERS. EVEN THOUGH LONGFORM EXISTS PREDOMINANTLY ON THE DIGITAL PLAIN, ITS MESSAGE STILL NEEDS TO BE PRESERVED AND SHARED WITH FUTURE GENERATIONS OF THOSE WILLING TO TUNE INTO ITS NETWORK OF PEACEGIVING REMEMBRANCE. THE IDEA OF CREATING SOMETHING THAT OUTLIVES YOU AND PRESERVES A MESSAGE FOR FUTURE BEINGS HAS ALWAYS FASCINATED ME. IT REMINDED ME OF THE SPIKE FIELD, A CONCEPT CREATED BY SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES AND THE HUMAN INTERFERENCE TASK FORCE OF THE U.S GOVERNMENT. THE IDEA WAS TO CONCEPTUALISE DETERRENTS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS FROM DIGGING UP DEEP BURIED NUCLEAR WASTE THAT WOULD POISON THE PLANET, A MESSAGE FROM THE PAST TO PRESERVE THE FUTURE. MONOLITHS OF EVERY RECORDED LANGUAGE AND GIANT SPIKES OF CONCRETE ERECTED FROM THE EARTH WERE CONCEPTUALISED TO WARN THOSE OF THE FUTURE. LONGPLAYER HAS THESE QUALITIES OF A DEEPER MEANING, SURE IT COULD BE CONSIDERED JUST A ROTATING AND MORPHING PIECE OF MUSIC THAT SOUNDS PLEASANT AND INSPIRES MINDFULNESS BUT ITS ETHOS IS DEEPER WITHIN THE SOUND.

LONGPLAYER IS A REMINDER OF OUR OFTEN LOST AND MISINTERPRETED ANCESTRY, IT TALKS TO THE INNATE PARTS OF US THAT UNDERSTANDS WITHOUT WORDS. IT ECHOS A TIME TO QUOTE TERRENCE MCKENNA ‘’OF ARCHAIC VALUE’’ MEANING THE IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNITY, PRESERVING LIFE AND GAIA AND GIVING BACK INTO SOMETHING THAS GIFTED YOU LIFE ITSELF. WE LIVE IN A DIGITAL FLOOD OF MISINFORMATION AND FEEDBACK, AND WITH THE RISE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, THE TRUTH BECOMES A LOT HARDER TO FIND. THERES A PURITY AND TRUTH TO LONGPLAYER THAT WE ARE LACKING DUE TO THE MUDDYING OF THE WATER BY SOCIAL MEDIA, MISINFORMATION AND IMPENDING DOOM OF POTENTIAL WAR.

LONGPLAYER INVITES SOMEONE TO TUNE OF THE MADNESS FOR A MOMENT AND HEAR TRUTH AND CLARITY, TO ASK THE EXISTENTIAL QUESTIONS THAT MATTER, TO HEAR THE INNER CHILD AND TO GREET THE SHADOW. A MOMENT TO HEAR THE PAST AND THE FUTURE SIMULTANEOUSLY.