Live show of song that lasts 1,000 years

A piece of computer-generated music designed to be played for 1,000 years will be performed live tomorrow for the first time since the project began a decade ago.

Jem Finer, an artist and founder member of The Pogues, will be joined by musicians and 32 Tibetan singing bowls placed in six concentric circles to play a 1,000-minute segment of the work, Longplayer, at the Roundhouse in Camden.

The work has been playing in digital form at a listening post in Docklands since 31 December 1999.

Finer said it was exciting to do it for real: "I think there will be periods that could be very dull and there will be periods that will be extraordinary."

Longplayer is made up of part of a 20-minute "source" piece of Tibetan singing bowl music being played every two minutes from a different starting point.

Finer, 54, of Kentish Town, wrote a "score" for the computer-generated music and will perform it from 8.20am tomorrow.