Longplayer - a 1000 year long musical composition

I was tumbling through the interwebs looking for information on Artangel, an arts commissioning body in the UK and found this artwork. It's called Longplayer. A composition that started on 31st December 1999 and will play through until the last moment of 2999. Then it will begin again from the start. What struck me most about this artwork is the hope, for want of a better word, that is imbued within it. To think that the world will still exist in 2999 to keep playing this composition.

For me this conjures visions of a post-apocalyptic world, human life long since gone and across a vast desert you hear this machine tick into the last bar of it's song at the final moment of 2999. There is a moment of eerie silence. And then it resumes. Tracking back and playing music that was heard in 1999 by people that once inhabited the earth.

Strange.

So this artwork is eerie, hopeful and beautiful all at the same time.

Here is the link to it.

http://longplayer.org/what/overview.php

thanks.