Jeremy "Jem" Finer is an English musician and composer. He was one of the founding members of The Pogues. 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. Finer was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England, and studied computing and sociology at Keele University.

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  • Jeremy "Jem" Finer is an English musician and composer. He was one of the founding members of The Pogues. 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. Finer was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England, and studied computing and sociology at Keele University. After college he traveled Europe and spent some time working on a barge in France. He finally settled in London, where he met Shane MacGowan and Spider Stacy, and ultimately joined their band, The Pogues. 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. On the 1 January 2000, the Finer-composed Longplayer piece of music was started; this is designed to last 1000 years without ever repeating itself, and as currently implemented is computer-generated. Finer was "Artist in Residence" at the Astrophysics Sub-department of the University of Oxford between October 2003 and June 2005. As of March 2007, his latest band, The Big Eyed Beans from Venus, have finished recording their (as yet untitled) first album. Finer and Hamburg-based swamp pop legend DM Bob have recorded and performed together since 2005, releasing their album Bum Steer in August of that year and co-producing the debut album by experimental pop band Marseille Figs. He has written articles on copyright and the Creative Commons License. In July 2005, Finer won the PRS Foundation New Music Award on the basis for his proposal to build a device that will automatically "compose" a song of indeterminate length by harnessing the creative force of the weather. His proposal read: The countryside is shot through with holes in the ground; wells, mine shafts, fissures, bunkers, ventilation holes. In this piece of music the venue is a deep shaft in which there will be placed, at different heights, bowls of different sizes and tunings pivoted about their centre of gravity, the instruments. The players, the drips of water, will strike the bowls, ringing them like bells. As they fill with water their timbres will change, and the delicate equilibrium of their pivots will cause them to sway slightly, modulating the tones. Overflowing, a bowl will drip into ones below it. Amplification will be facilitated by a tube rising up from within the shaft, into a brass horn twenty feet above the surface. Akin to the bamboo tube in the suikinkutsu, the horn not only amplifies the sounds but forms a sculptural object, a focus in the landscape. The work was constructed and installed in King's Wood near Challock, Kent over the summer of 2006.
  • È stato soprattutto un suonatore di banjo, ma ha suonato anche diversi altri strumenti, tra cui mandolino, sassofono, ghironda, e chitarra. Eccetto Shane MacGowan (con il quale ha firmato molte canzoni tra cui la famosa Fairytale of New York) Finer è stato il più prolifico compositore della band. Il primo gennaio 2000, il brano musicale Longplayer composto da Finer ha iniziato a suonare; è stato progettato per durare 1000 anni senza mai ripetersi, e nella sua forma attuale è generato da un computer. Finer è stato "Artist in Residence" al sottodipartimento di astrofisica dell'Università di Oxford tra ottobre 2003 e giugno 2005. La sua ultima Band, "The Big Eyed Beans from Venus", ha appena terminato di registrare il loro ultimo album (ancora senza titolo). Nel frattempo, Finer e la leggenda di Hamburgo DM Bob hanno pubblicato il loro album 'Bum Steer' in agosto 2005. Finer ha scritto articoli sul copyright e la Creative Commons License. In luglio 2005, Finer ha vinto il PRS Foundation New Music Award per il suo progetto di costruzione di un oggetto in grado di "comporre" da sé una musica di lunghezza indeterminata sfruttando la forza creativa del clima. La sua proposta è stata questa: La campagna è piena di buchi; pozzi, miniere, fessure, bunker, fori di ventilazione. In questo brano musicale, lo strumento è una cavità profonda nella quale verranno piazzate, a diverse altezze, bocce di vario diametro e tono con un perno nel loro centro di gravità. Questi gli strumenti. I musicisti, le gocce d'acqua, colpiranno le bocce facendole suonare come campane. Riempiendosi di acqua cambieranno timbro e il delicato equilibrio dei loro supporti causerà una piccola vibrazione, una modulazione. Quando sarà troppo piena d'acqua, la boccia si svuoterà lasciando cadere l'acqua nelle sfere sottostanti. L'amplificazione verrà ottenuta grazie a un tubo inserito all'interno della cavità e da un corno acustico di bronzo venti piedi (circa sette metri) sopra il livello del terreno. Come il tubo di bambù nel suikinkutsu, il corno non solo amplifica il suono ma costituisce una scultura, un profilo nel paesaggio. L'intera struttura è stata realizzata e installata nel corso dell'estate del 2006.
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  • Jeremy "Jem" Finer is an English musician and composer. He was one of the founding members of The Pogues. 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. Finer was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England, and studied computing and sociology at Keele University.
  • È stato soprattutto un suonatore di banjo, ma ha suonato anche diversi altri strumenti, tra cui mandolino, sassofono, ghironda, e chitarra. Eccetto Shane MacGowan (con il quale ha firmato molte canzoni tra cui la famosa Fairytale of New York) Finer è stato il più prolifico compositore della band.
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