{"id":40918,"date":"2015-11-15T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=40918"},"modified":"2015-11-04T15:10:13","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T20:10:13","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-whats-the-longest-song-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2015\/uncommon-knowledge-whats-the-longest-song-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: What&#8217;s the Longest Song in History?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/drawn-to-music?source=blog_uk111515\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40921 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/25634_zoom1-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"Drawn to Music | UncommonGoods\" width=\"620\" height=\"620\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Longplayer\" href=\"http:\/\/longplayer.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Longplayer,<\/a> an epic musical composition and A.I. project initiated by Jem Finer (of <a title=\"The Pogues\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pogues.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pogues<\/a> fame) has been playing for less than two percent of its intended duration. Designed to last a millennium without repetition, Longplayer is barely getting warmed up as it approaches the fifteen-year mark of its sonic lifespan. To put that in perspective, the longest Pink Floyd track is about 25 minutes (<a title=\"Shine On You Crazy Diamond\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8UXircX3VdM\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Shine On You Crazy Diamond&#8221;<\/a>), and <a title=\"Der Ring des Nibelungen\" href=\"http:\/\/ringcycle.metoperafamily.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wagner&#8217;s Ring cycle<\/a> clocks in at over 16 hours. But these compositions are mere blips compared to Longplayer&#8217;s thousand-year run. If you spent your entire life listening to the meditative tones of Longplayer (and who has the time?), you couldn&#8217;t hope to hear more than ten percent of the evolving composition. But regardless of how long you can listen, the piece offers a sensory analog to the expansiveness of time and the difficulty that the human lifespan poses to our perception of much beyond <a title=\"I am in the Now Necklace | UncommonGoods\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/i-am-in-the-now-necklace?source=blog_111515\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;the now.&#8221;<\/a> In an age of music by instant-gratification download, Longplayer serves as a contemplative antidote to the impatient listening encouraged by MP3s or streaming audio.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Drawn to Music | UncommonGoods\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/drawn-to-music?source=blog_uk111515\" target=\"_blank\">Drawn to Music<\/a> | $20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get comfortable. The longest musical composition in history started fifteen years ago, and it&#8217;s just warming up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":40923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[73,813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40918"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41455,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40918\/revisions\/41455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}