Dean's World

Hmm. Check out Longplayer, the thousand-year-long song. It started playing on January 1, 2000 and will finish on December 31, 2999. It can be heard in several locations around the world, including live on the internet.

I listened to about 10 minutes of it. It was more interesting than I expected. Interesting enough that I listened for about 10 minutes while idly doing other things, but not interesting enough to keep me listening for much longer. It does have a sort of timeless sound to it. But it's basically nothing but a half-dozen 20 minute loops of Tibetan singing bowl music and gongs, set to loop continuously but to restart each loop at different intervals so as no particular loop ever repeats exactly the same for a thousand years. Once every possible iteration has been played, the song ends.

Part of me thinks this is kind of cool. Part of me thinks it's just idiotic. I lean toward "cool," in the sense that if someone wanted to build a monument to last a thousand years, that's no less silly really.