In next page click regular or free download and wait certain amount of time usually around 30 seconds until download button will appead. Experimental composer, sound sculptor, and video artist globally renowned for his 911 elegy the disintegration loops. In 2012, temporary residence rereleased the disintegration loops in a limited set of 2000 vinyl copies. Listen free to william basinski the disintegration loops dlp 1.
The origin story of the disintegration loops is one that passed to legend and then to myth, and what must have started as fact now seems buried under romantic hyperbole. The second part of william basinski s superlative water music series seemingly touching on the idea of mathematical music ciphers, durational ratios etc. William basinski the disintegration loops album download. I first came across the name william basinski, and his disintegration loops, a couple of years ago, but only very recently bought this box set, having heard the loops many times and struggling to understand whether this is divine music, or pretentious nonsense masquerading as profound art.
Melancholia by william basinski, released 29 april 2014 1. Unlogic thing, william basinski the disintegration loops rework album tracks bitrate. Once you heard it, you wanted to tell somebody about it. The disintegration loops by william basinski, released 02 september 2014 1. Basinski is best known for his fourvolume album the disintegration loops, constructed from rapidly decaying twentyyearold tapes of his earlier music.
He began experimenting with compositions for piano and tape that created a melancholy ambience via looped and overdubbed melodies with variations a movement in chrome primitive 1980, released. William basinskis disintegration loops the music show. William basinski is an experimental composer, sound. Stream adfree with amazon music unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. The first track, a shadow in time, is an epic ambient meltdown that resembles his critically acclaimed disintegration loops featuring a crying saxophone and grand, bass heavy landscapes. William is playing the get together record fair at the geffen contemporary at moca november 16th. Constructed from his signature swirling, endlessly ambient tape loops, a shadow in time is possibly the most affecting work he has composed since the first chapter of the disintegration loops slowly weaved its way into our collective psyche. Rightly considered one of his finest works, melancholia employs similar techniques used on his now legendary the disintegration loops to another stash of short tape loops he created in the early 80s.
William basinskiwilliam basinski watermusic ii 2003. He is a relentless experimentalist, obsessed with reeltoreel tape decks, splicing tape, and spindling it. He has become one of the most recognized sound artists and ambient composers across the globe, in large part for his careerdefining work the. A stunning vinyl box set collects his bestknown work, the disintegration loops, a project he finished the morning of september 11. William basinski is a classically trained musician and composer who has been working in experimental media for over 25 years in nyc. William basinski the disintegration loops iv cd, digital. The music was recorded from a series of ambient music fragments played in tape loops that gradually deteriorated each.
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I first came across the name william basinski, and his disintegration loops, a couple of years ago, but only very recently bought this box set, having heard the loops many times and struggling to understand whether this is divine music, or pretentious nonsense. William basinskis gorgeous 2003 album reborn on a remastered edition. William basinski licensed to youtube by merlin sc distribution on behalf of temporary residence ltd. Basinski is best known for his fourvolume album the disintegration loops 20022003, constructed from rapidly decaying twentyyearold tapes of his earlier music. Over one million legal mp3 tracks available at juno download. The disintegration loops remastered by william basinski. His craft does involve plenty of deep instrumentation and symphonious arrangements, but hes been experimenting with tape loops and reelto. The disintegration loops were performed as part of the tenyear anniversary concert remembering september 11 at new yorks metropolitan museum of art in its temple of dendur by the wordless music orchestra, orchestrated by maxim moston. The story goes that in the process of converting his old magnetic tapes to digital format, basinski noticed that his tapes had begun to literally fall apart. In the process of transferring aging reeltoreel tape loops to a digital medium, basinski found the reels originally recorded in 1982 were so old and decrepit that the tape. Although william basinskis work is often tagged as neoclassical, the veteran producer is very much an electronic musician. The music was recorded from a series of ambient music fragments played in tape loops that gradually deteriorated each time they passed the tape head. Basinski used this method to create ghostly ambiences, and there are similar sounds to be found across xerrox vol. Loops is based on basinskis attempts to salvage earlier recordings made on magnetic tape, by transferring them into digital format.
The audio was remastered in 2012 from the original master tapes, and the artwork is packaged in deluxe. The latter, for david robert jones, while still grand and spacious, is more of a peaceful sonata featuring an intimate. Across 15 short form pieces, his beautifully sparse and solemn piano figures become seductive. Having begun to accumulate in 1978, basinskis hugely influential recordings only started to be. Download album max richter the blue notebooks flac free.
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His haunting and melancholy soundscapes explore the temporal nature of life, resounding with the reverberations of memory and the mystery of time. Spread over a single piece that tops an hour, water music ii has an undulating predilection that basinski then goes on. Nov 19, 2012 in the early part of the last decade, william basinski s the disintegration loops was the sort of music you passed around. This is the first part of william basinski s now celebrated disintegration loops, elegant pastoral loops made from looping disintegrating old tape stock the recordings had originally been recorded onto. For a collection of music built around the poignant inevitability of decay, there has been a greatmany hopeful and inspired words devoted to william basinskis the disintegration loops. William basinski the disintegration loops cd box set. William basinski the disintegration loops by trevor music annex. Delving deeper than most, william basinski returns with the elegant sadness of his new album, a shadow in time. He is also a clarinetist, saxophonist, sound artist, and video artist. William basinski the disintegration loops ii the river. Jan, 2017 in the fifteen years since william basinski released the debut installment of his disintegration loops series he has been rapidly, and rightly, lionized. Worshiped by some as the heir apparent to brian enos throne, he could more accurately be described as one of the ambient originators few true peers and contemporaries. The disintegration loops is a series of four albums by american avantgarde composer william basinski released in 2002 and 2003. Tidal is the first global music streaming service with high fidelity sound, hidef video quality, along with expertly curated playlists and original content making it a trusted source for music and culture.
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