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Long playing

Long Playing (LP) is the standard format of a vinyl record: the unit of measure that has marked the listening of a music album since after World War II. Indeed, with the evolution of media, from cassette tapes to compact discs, the duration of an album has generally aligned with the space provided by the two sides of a vinyl record. This unit of measurement, no more than 25 min per side, still represents the time window of listening to an album.

In a historical and cultural moment in which music enjoyment is increasingly “distracted” and “individual,” increasingly mediated by playback platforms and their algorithms, Long Playing brings listening back to a community dimension by inviting to experience together an entire music album.

Long Playing is a listening format curated with Francesco Bergamo in the framework of SSH! (Sound Studies Hub, Iuav University of Venice) and hosted by Palazzo Grassi. The aim is creating opportunities for exchange between art and research in extra-academic settings, opening up university students and Venetian citizens.

Each appointment presesents an album from the contemporary research italian music scene (experimental, modern classical, ambient, drone, field recording) and invites the author(s) to participate to the session, which eventually culminates in a Q&A session.

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