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Composer and tape loop artist William Basinski will be on tour this fall, including appearances at Boise’s Treefort Music Festival, Miami’s III Points and Hudson, NY’s Basilica Soundscape, and ...

For those of you that don’t know, The Disintegration Loops is a longform ambient work constructed by composer William Basinski. According to lore, Basinski was in the process of transferring ...

William Basinski's The Disintegration Loops is arguably the definitive piece of 9/11-inspired art, but David Wexler's documentary of the same name has its eye on a different mass tragedy. The ...

Composer and ambient experimentalist William Basinski has announced a new box set reissue of his classic ambient work The Disintegration Loops. Dubbed the Arcadia Archive Edition, it features the ...

David Wexler’s short documentary, Disintegration Loops, explores the work and legacy of composer and experimental musician William Basinski. The film focuses primarily on Basinki’s best-known work: ...

For over 30 years, William Basinski has worked with tape loops. A stunning vinyl box set collects his best-known work, The Disintegration Loops, a... Divinity From Dust: The Healing Power Of 'The ...

In 2002, avant-garde composer William Basinski released the first of his releases in The Disintegration Loops series. The album, which was a collection of magnetic tape loops finished just as the 9/11 ...

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I don’t know if I am the nostalgic type, but I am fascinated by how memories and memories of our memories change with time. Some details get chipped away while new, often artificial ones find their ...

"Trying to make something from nothing..." An early festival promo trailer has debuted for a documentary film titled Disintegration Loops, which is premiering at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival this week.

William Basinski created the ambient album The Disintegration Loops I-IV in his Brooklyn apartment during the months surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks. On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the ...