![]() ![]() As Basinski himself states, it is actually capturing the life and death of music as it is being played again and again. ![]() These “loops” of tape would begin to deteriorate as they passed through the tape head, causing the iron oxide to fall off its plastic backing. The melancholic melodies within Disintegration Loops, as Basinski thoroughly describes and Wexler recreates with animation, was a unique process that he stumbled across while transmitting tape-recorded music to a more reliable digital format. Many critics heralded it as a masterpiece, including the influential Pitchfork, which gave it a perfect 10 and listed it as one of the best albums of the year and decade and the third-best ambient music album of all time. ![]() His most acclaimed creation would be the eponymous tracks, a four-album collective of haunting, ethereal, repetitive sounds spanning over five hours. Removed from the context of that disaster and transposed into the mundane world we live in every day, The Disintegration Loops still wield an uncanny, affirming power. We witness his archive-based approach to the origins of his sound as Basinski burrows into his recordings (both his and found pre-recorded sounds), giving them an entirely new life. He takes us through his struggles and successes, from his religious Texas roots to his bon vivant days in the 1980s underground music scene of the Big Apple to musical elder statesman of the city’s healing. He shares photos and videos documenting the earliest days of his artistic journey to ambient musical messiah during one of the most turbulent times in New York City’s history. While the interviews for this 45-minute documentary are limited to Zoom meetings and the technical complications therein (of which we are all familiar), Disintegration Loops provides a wide berth of personal footage from Basinski himself. Though, it would be paralyzed from yet another tragedy, the global pandemic. ![]() The musician is on the cusp of his latest release, which was to be marked with a worldwide tour. Director David Wexler revisits the impact of the definitive musical elegy with its father. Numbered edition of 2000.SXSW FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! On the cusp of the 20th anniversary of the World Trade Center attack, ambient music frontiersman William Basinski guides us through a comprehensive look at his seminal album, Disintegration Loops. Remastered from the original recordings this exquisite box set also includes all of the remastered recordings on 5 CDs, the extremely rare 63-minute The Disintegration Loops film on DVD, and a 144-page full-color book featuring rare photos taken during the making of The Disintegration Loops, and liner notes by Basinski, Antony, David Tibet of Current 93, Ronen Givony of the Wordless Music Series, and Michael Shulan, Creative Director of the National September 11 Memorial Museum.ĥ x CD, DVD, Book in library box. The Disintegration Loops by William Basinski Publication date Topics experimental, ambient, electronic, dark ambient, bandcamp, minimal, synth, avant-garde, insturmental, ethereal, drone William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops. This massive limited-edition box set contains all four historic volumes, plus a pair of stunning live orchestral performances from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the 54th Venice Biennale, both previously unreleased. is honored to collaborate with William Basinski in presenting The Disintegration Loops in a fashion truly befitting a library of music with such a lasting legacy. To mark the 10-year anniversary of its original release - and its forthcoming induction into the 9/11 Memorial Museum this year - Temporary Residence Ltd. The very passage of time is its most effective instrument. From its 20-year gestation period to its infamously fateful completion, The Disintegration Loops is one of the most powerful manifestations of the inevitable cycle of life ever committed to tape, even as it documents the inevitable decay of all that is committed to tape. For a collection of music built around the poignant inevitability of decay, there has been a great many hopeful and inspired words devoted to William Basinski's The Disintegration Loops: stunning, ethereal, majestic, transfixing, life-affirming. ![]()
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