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Jeremy Max "Jem" Finer (born 20 July 1955) is an English musician, artist and composer. He was one of the founding members of The Pogues.
Finer was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England. He took a joint degree in computing and sociology at Keele University. After college he travelled around Europe and spent some time working on a barge in France. He settled in London, where he met Shane MacGowan, Spider Stacy, and James Fearnley with whom he founded The Pogues. He has worked in a variety of fields, including photography, film, experimental and popular music and installation.
Primarily a banjoist, he also plays other instruments, including mandola, saxophone, hurdy-gurdy and the guitar. Apart from Shane MacGowan (with whom he co-wrote several songs, including "Fairytale of New York"), Finer was the most prolific composer for the band.
He appeared on all the band's albums until their breakup in 1996; he was one of only three original members. During that time he also appeared on MacGowan's solo album The Snake and The Levellers' self-titled release; he continued working as a musician and composer after leaving The Pogues.
The Arts Catalyst is a London-based contemporary arts organization, known for its commissioned artists' projects, as well as being one of the pioneers of art and science in the UK.
Directed by Nicola Triscott since the early 1990s, the organization works "at the frontiers of art and research". Commissioned artists' projects include Tomas Saraceno's Poetic Cosmos of the Breath (2007), Aleksandra Mir's Gravity at the Roundhouse (2006), the Turner Prize shortlisted The Otolith Group (Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar)'s first film Otolith 1, Helen Chadwick’s Unnatural Selection (1996), and Critical Art Ensemble's Marching Plague (2006).
The Arts Catalyst was founded in 1993 by Nicola Triscott, who is the Director of the organization and its programmes.
Since 1994 The Arts Catalyst has commissioned artists from around the globe on over one hundred different projects, by artists and arts groups, in a range of art forms such as Live Art (art form), artists' film and video, installation, media art, performance, and bioart, such as Kira O'Reilly, The Critical Art Ensemble and The Otolith Group, presented as exhibitions and events.
In 2000 my old and very dear friend Jem Finer created a piece of music that would play continuosly for 1000 years. It is still playing at Trinity Buoy Wharf in East London. In 2009 he staged a live performance of an exerpt from it lasting 1000 minutes. It is one of the most surreal and evocative pieces of music I have ever heared. Here is part of it.
¡supercomputer!
Longplayer has been playing since 1999 and will continue to play till 2999. On the 12th of September 2009 1000 minutes was performed live at The Roundhouse in London. The brainchild of Jem Finer and commissioned by Artangel check out www.Longplayer.org
Božićna bajka Izvode profesori Glazbene škole Karlovac: Tihomir Bokun, klarinet Lana Ćosić, flauta Pavle Golubić, udaraljke Boris Kolarić, saksofon Božidar Križan, oboa Nikica Marčetić, klavir Robert Pajić, klarinet Ivor Reljić, saksofon 22. prosinca 2016. / GK Zorin dom, Karlovac
Artist Jem Finer talks about Still, a new installation in YSP's Chapel where visitors are immersed in a large projection of 700 images, taken automatically in a forest by a solar-powered camera and constantly reordered through computer software. Still captures a year in the Kent woodland through an ever changing sequence between dusk and dawn; an ebb and fl ow of time through which the viewer is as likely to witness the passing of a single day as the turning of the seasons of a full year. A founding member of The Pogues, Jem Finer has established a highly respected multi-media art practice, which draws on his early training as a computer scientist. Finer is particularly known for the Artangel commission Longplayer, a self-selecting musical composition that began at midnight on 31 Decembe...
Join us for a interview with Jem Finer, a UK-based artist, musician, and composer. Finer has worked in film, photography, installation, and experimental and popular music since studying computer science in the 1970s. Much of his work explores systems and processes playing out over extremes of time and space. Join us for our next show! http://www.exploratorium.edu/resonance/calendar
Can you imagine what the world will be like in 1,000 years? Yeah, neither can we. But one man has created a piece of music that will still be playing by the end of the next millennium. Composer Jem Finer was always intrigued by the concept of time. So in the year 2000, he decided to commemorate the new millennium by writing “Longplayer”—an everlasting piece of music that repeats every 1,000 years (http://longplayer.org/). While Finer won't be around in 2999 when the symphony resets, his hope is that it will unite a community of listeners across generations—all connected by the soothing sounds of singing bowls. SUBSCRIBE: https://goo.gl/vR6Acb This story is a part of our Frontiers series, where we bring you front and center to the dreamers, pioneers, and innovators leading society at the ...
Jem Finer is a UK-based artist, musician and composer. Since studying computer science in the 1970s, he has worked in a variety of fields, including photography, film, music and installation. For AV Festival 12 Finer presented his work 'Slowplayer' at the New Bridge Project, this work explores his interest in long-durational processes and extremes of scale in both time and space. In this exclusive interview Finer explains the relationship between time and speed in his work, and the low frequencies created when slowing recordings down.
Zero Genie is a film of a performance in zero gravity. Two men, dressed as genies plus carpets, hookah, shawms and stars. In the belly of a Russian military cargo plane Ansuman Biswas and Jem Finer explore myths and archetypes of space, race and flight. Dressed as genies they attempt to smoke a hookah and fly carpets in zero gravity. The film was edited from footage of the performance on an Arts Catalyst / Mir Consortium parabolic flight at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, Start City, Russia, and all the sound track made from the sound captured on film. Zero Genie was first shown at The Arts Catalyst's Artists & Cosmonauts event at the Sadlers Wells in April 2001 and has subsequently been screened at numberous events, exhibitions and film festivals around the world. The ...
Longplayer has been playing since 1999 and will continue to play till 2999. On the 12th of September 2009 1000 minutes was performed live at The Roundhouse in London. The brainchild of Jem Finer and commissioned by Artangel check out www.Longplayer.org
In 2000 my old and very dear friend Jem Finer created a piece of music that would play continuosly for 1000 years. It is still playing at Trinity Buoy Wharf in East London. In 2009 he staged a live performance of an exerpt from it lasting 1000 minutes. It is one of the most surreal and evocative pieces of music I have ever heared. Here is part of it.
The first of two excerpts from the 1,000 minute long live performance of Longplayer, a 1,000-year long composition developed and composed by Jem Finer, played on October 16. 2010 in San Francisco by Finer and 17 other musicians on a 60-foot wide custom-built instrument. This event was presented by the Long Now Foundation. The performers in this video excerpt are Suki O'Kane, John Hanes, Wayne Grim, Edward Schocker, Stephen McMullin, and Ben Furstenberg. More info: http://longplayer.org/ http://longnow.org/longplayer/
Jem Finer's Slowplayer Live Mix at NewBridge Project Space, 3 March 2012 as part of AV Festival. The audience were invited to bring along a vinyl record and hear it played live by the artist on his specially adapted slow record player.This came from track 3, side 2 of 'Music from the morning of the world' being played at approx 2rpm (that's Finer crawling inside the speaker cabinet).
The second of two excerpts from the 1,000 minute long live performance of Longplayer, a 1,000-year long composition developed and composed by Jem Finer, played on October 16. 2010 in San Francisco by Finer and 17 other musicians on a 60-foot wide custom-built instrument. This event was presented by the Long Now Foundation. The performers in this video excerpt are Suki O'Kane, John Hanes, Wayne Grim, Edward Schocker, Stephen McMullin, and Ben Furstenberg. More info: http://longplayer.org/ http://longnow.org/longplayer/
On Saturday 12 September at the Roundhouse, Jem Finer (The Pogues) directs Longplayer's spectacular first-ever live performance: a 1,000 minute section from its 1,000 year duration. A tiny fragment from its great expanse, Longplayer Live will be played by a 26-strong all-star orchestra on a unique 20-metre wide instrument effectively a giant bronze age synthesizer, with highly resonant singing bowls for tone generators and humans for power. http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/productions/longplayer-live-3543
Božićna bajka Izvode profesori Glazbene škole Karlovac: Tihomir Bokun, klarinet Lana Ćosić, flauta Pavle Golubić, udaraljke Boris Kolarić, saksofon Božidar Križan, oboa Nikica Marčetić, klavir Robert Pajić, klarinet Ivor Reljić, saksofon 22. prosinca 2016. / GK Zorin dom, Karlovac
Live OGWT 1986 Shane MacGowan Spider Stacy Jem Finer Cait O'Riordan James Fearnly Phil Chevron Andrew Ranken From The 1985 Album Rum Sodomy & The Lash
¡supercomputer!
Artist Jem Finer talks about Still, a new installation in YSP's Chapel where visitors are immersed in a large projection of 700 images, taken automatically in a forest by a solar-powered camera and constantly reordered through computer software. Still captures a year in the Kent woodland through an ever changing sequence between dusk and dawn; an ebb and fl ow of time through which the viewer is as likely to witness the passing of a single day as the turning of the seasons of a full year. A founding member of The Pogues, Jem Finer has established a highly respected multi-media art practice, which draws on his early training as a computer scientist. Finer is particularly known for the Artangel commission Longplayer, a self-selecting musical composition that began at midnight on 31 Decembe...
Join us for a interview with Jem Finer, a UK-based artist, musician, and composer. Finer has worked in film, photography, installation, and experimental and popular music since studying computer science in the 1970s. Much of his work explores systems and processes playing out over extremes of time and space. Join us for our next show! http://www.exploratorium.edu/resonance/calendar
Join us for the fourth event in the series, this time featuring Jem Finer, a UK-based artist, musician, and composer. Finer has worked in film, photography, installation, and experimental and popular music since studying computer science in the 1970s. Much of his work explores systems and processes playing out over extremes of time and space. For this event, he'll offer two performances. In an inversion of the usual supporting role of the soundtrack, Finer gathered sound using a video camera, then draws upon this raw material to compose improvisational films whose visual component is a byproduct of these sound juxtapositions in "Original Soundtracks #5," which will also include new material recorded in San Francisco. In addition, he'll perform "Starfield." Each star shines with a unique s...
A Matter of Gravity The moon life foundation - Alicia Framis Director of Moon Life Foundation, Alicia Framis speculates on the possibility that humans will live in space in the future. The project acts as a stimulus for artists, designers, architects to create futuristic radical political but humane concepts for an extreme lunar environment. Alicia Framis is also the Lost Astronaut -- an performance-installation at APF LAB, exploring the potentialities of living on the moon through the ironical activities and fictional character of a woman astronaut. Left on earth like all women who were never part of the moon race, she settles in to BaseCamp, in which she lived for the two weeks in a customized astronaut suit, among drawings and prototypes that aim to both parody and demand women's pre...
Då jag har hållit på att ladda upp gamla avsnitt av "Så ska det låta" så kan jag väl lika gärna ladda upp den senaste säsongen också! Eller? I säsongens tolfte program som sändes söndagen den 22 mars tidigare i år tävlade Marika Willstedt med exklusiv REA, nämligen humorgenierna Sussie Eriksson och Ola Forssmed. I Karin Westerbergs lag tävlar pojkbandet från Australien JTR (bestående av bröderna John Andreasson, Tom Lundbäck och Robin Lundbäck)
The 2014 Artangel Longplayer Conversation between Brian Eno and David Graeber took place 7pm, Tuesday 7 October 2014 at the Royal Geographical Society, London SW7. Longplayer is a thousand-year long musical composition conceived and composed by Jem Finer. The Longlayer Conversations began with a meeting in 2005 between New York artist and musician Laurie Anderson and Nobel prize-winning author Doris Lessing; they continue to take place in the context of this project. Watch, listen to or read about previous Artangel Longplayer Conversations here: artangel.org.uk/projects/2000/longplayer/conversations/ Find out more about Longplayer here: artangel.org.uk//projects/2000/longplayer/about_the_project/about_the_project
Då jag har hållit på att ladda upp gamla avsnitt av "Så ska det låta" så kan jag väl lika gärna ladda upp den senaste säsongen också! Eller? I säsongens femte program som sändes söndagen den 1 februari tidigare i år tävlade Marika Willstedt med jazzlegenderna ur två generationer, Viktoria Tolstoy och Svante Thuresson. I Karin Westerbergs lag tävlar två vinnarskallar: schlagerartisten Shirley Clamp och popundret Johan Wester.
Då jag har hållit på att ladda upp gamla avsnitt av "Så ska det låta" så kan jag väl lika gärna ladda upp den senaste säsongen också! Eller? I säsongens sjätte program som sändes söndagen den 8 februari tidigare i år tävlade Marika Willstedt med schlagerdrottningen Helena Paparizou och soulkungen Stephen Simmonds. I Karin Westerbergs lag tävlar balladernas mästarinna, Sonja Aldén och syntpopens mästare, Martin Rolinski.
Då jag har hållit på att ladda upp gamla avsnitt av "Så ska det låta" så kan jag väl lika gärna ladda upp den senaste säsongen också! Eller? I säsongens nionde program som sändes söndagen den 1 mars tidigare i år tävlade Marika Willstedt med sångerskan som är Big in Japan, Lena Maria Klingvall och gospelstjärnan Gladys del Pilar. I Karin Westerbergs lag tävlar den sjungande komikern Shima Niavarani och mannen som gråter på diskoteket, Andreas Lundstedt.
The Pogues-Live in Japan Shane MacGowan, Jem Finer, James Fearnley, Andrew Rankin,Spider Stacy, Philip Chevron. here's a great early show I had to process to death to get up here, hope it works...you lazy European sods ought to be getting more Pogues up.... includes rainy Night in Soho, and Johnny Come Lately, Yeah Yeah, Yeah, and Thousands Are Sailing
Då jag har hållit på att ladda upp gamla avsnitt av "Så ska det låta" så kan jag väl lika gärna ladda upp den senaste säsongen också! Eller? I säsongens första program som sändes söndagen den 4 januari tidigare i år tävlade Marika Willstedt med det roligaste västkusten har att erbjuda, komikerna Annika Andersson och Thomas Petersson. I Karin Westerbergs lag har vi de alltid lika tindrande schlagerstjärnorna, Linda Bengtzing och Magnus Carlsson.
Join us for a interview with Jem Finer, a UK-based artist, musician, and composer. Finer has worked in film, photography, installation, and experimental and popular music since studying computer science in the 1970s. Much of his work explores systems and processes playing out over extremes of time and space. Join us for our next show! http://www.exploratorium.edu/resonance/calendar
¡supercomputer!
Jem Finer is a UK-based artist, musician and composer. Since studying computer science in the 1970s, he has worked in a variety of fields, including photography, film, music and installation. For AV Festival 12 Finer presented his work 'Slowplayer' at the New Bridge Project, this work explores his interest in long-durational processes and extremes of scale in both time and space. In this exclusive interview Finer explains the relationship between time and speed in his work, and the low frequencies created when slowing recordings down.
Artist Jem Finer talks about Still, a new installation in YSP's Chapel where visitors are immersed in a large projection of 700 images, taken automatically in a forest by a solar-powered camera and constantly reordered through computer software. Still captures a year in the Kent woodland through an ever changing sequence between dusk and dawn; an ebb and fl ow of time through which the viewer is as likely to witness the passing of a single day as the turning of the seasons of a full year. A founding member of The Pogues, Jem Finer has established a highly respected multi-media art practice, which draws on his early training as a computer scientist. Finer is particularly known for the Artangel commission Longplayer, a self-selecting musical composition that began at midnight on 31 Decembe...
Jem Finer discusses the genesis of Longplayer, premiere of Shortplayer at Pittsburgh's Wood St. Galleries, and the connections between what he does with his process music and what he does with The Pogues.
Božićna bajka Izvode profesori Glazbene škole Karlovac: Tihomir Bokun, klarinet Lana Ćosić, flauta Pavle Golubić, udaraljke Boris Kolarić, saksofon Božidar Križan, oboa Nikica Marčetić, klavir Robert Pajić, klarinet Ivor Reljić, saksofon 22. prosinca 2016. / GK Zorin dom, Karlovac
Artist Jem Finer plays his long player record player as part of Newcastle's AV Festival
Interesting to encounter this chiming away in a quiet enclave of trees on a late winter walk in Yorkshire Sculpture Park. It will be playing for a thousand years... Contemplating this longevity in the growing darkness was quite something. How would the park even BE in the year 2999? Will there actually be any people around to hear it by then? It began playing on New Year's Eve, 1999. It's just struck me that I was listening to it for the first time at almost exactly the same time of year - New Year's Eve Eve - 17 years on. 983 years yet to play. ... more info: http://www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/jem-finer-longplayer hear Longplayer playing here: http://longplayer.org
London Musicians' Collective presents the First Last LMC Festival. Cafe Oto, 18-22 Ashwin Street, London, E8 3DL 28,29,30 May Wednesday 28th: Evan Parker Farmer, Lash & French Chant/ Davies/ Edwards/ Drew Paul Abbot & Mark Fletcher Willem de Ridder Thursday 29th Chris Cutler Jem Finer John Wall Oscillatorial Binnage Superstrings Friday 30th John Butcher + Toshimaru Nakamura Louisa Martin Furt John Lely + special guest Christian Marclay: new video work Supported by the PRSF and The Wire