Recently, all four cd’s (almost 5 hours of disintegrating loops!) are reissued. Rumour around this project has grown to near mythical proportions. Mr Basiniskis work The Disintegration Loops came about by accident. The Disintegration Loops were hard to find originally.
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Uz streaming glazbe na Deezeru moe otkriti vie od 90 milijuna pjesama, kreirati svoje vlastite playliste i dijeliti omiljene pjesme sa svojim prijateljima. News J8:37 AM By Tom Breihan 0 In 20, the composer William Basinski released a four-volume series of albums that he called The Disintegration Loops. by William Basinski Audio CD 13.40 Disintegration Loops 2 by BASINSKI,WILLIAM Audio CD 15.19 Disintegration Loops 4 William Basinski 17 Audio CD 7 offers from 13.40 Disintegration Loops 2 BASINSKI,WILLIAM 25 Audio CD 9 offers from 15.18 Lamentations BASINSKI,WILLIAM 35 Vinyl 8 offers from 29. I am not sure yet if it’s the concept, the coincidence, or the music itself that makes The Disintegration Loops so very impressive.īut in the end, this doesn’t really matter. Sluaj The Disintegration Loops (Remastered) (Remastered) od William Basinski na Deezeru. … In the next days and weeks, I watched as I and my friends disintegrated in our own personal loops of fear and terror…each one happening on it’s own terms, in it’s own language, at it’s own pace’ We sat on the roof terrace in lawn chairs and watched the fires burning all day into night with the Disintegration Loops playing in the background. At that point, ‘Disintegration’ became quite a different dimension. That, in itself, already is quite symbolic, but the story got another dimension when these tapes, played at his New York appartment, accidentally became a soundtrack for the 2001 09-11 disaster. William immediately realised the symbolic potential and recorded this process of disintegration as a new musical project. (Remember the brown dust on your cassette-recorder playback heads?).
If you can remember this analog reel-to-reel tapes (or cassettes), and imagine them to be used as a real physical loop (end glued to beginning), you can almost see how they started to deteriorate when played endlessly. A longer listen, however, reveals that the track is one. The resonance of Basinski’s audiovision will no doubt change with each passing year the consoling melancholia of a music almost lost, thankfully remains.Upon re-discovering his own archives, William Basinski found some old analog tape-recordings of some ‘pastoral pieces’ of his own work, recorded in the early 80’s. The Disintegration Loops sounds initially like a short track of music being played over and over again. It is a film about that day that one can return to time and again, reminded of the feelings of that moment, and newly colored by whatever its painful tremors now might be. There is a particular weight that has been lent to The Disintegration Loops by the context in which the project developed and Basinski’s decision to shoot Disintegration Loop 1.1 in real time on September 11 2001. The origin story of The Disintegration Loops is near mythic: in September 2001, electronic composer William Basinski uncovered a series of tape loops of found sound he had recorded from an easy listening station in the 1980s and decided to preserve them as digital files. William Basinski And then came September 11, 2001a dark day with a clear sky. This is the first part of William Basinskis now celebrated Disintegration loops, elegant pastoral loops made from looping disintegrating old tape stock the. All the beginning of autumn, all he and his friends did was listen to the 5-hour digital version. Basinski does not aim at the provocative lengthiness of Warhol’s earlier film and proves that silence is not the only respectful sound that befits such great loss. As a true artist, Basinski saw something in this: the majestic minor orchestral music was disintegrating before his eyes, taking parts of memories into oblivion. 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. The opening 20 minute section on this reissue from William Basinksi opens with one of the most heart-breaking tracts of music weve heard for many years a. It gives the scene a time and distance that would not last, as it became the flashpoint of global politics. 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.
Basinski’s film is not as technically inventive as some of these other examples, but as a record of such a historic event it avoids cloying sentimentality and the shock tactics of some documentary styles.
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