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Sometimes these voices give the impression of being a babelesque language mix-up, or even a kind of cryptic message for the listener like found in the song “ meander“. These elements are set and arranged as if they were an autonomous instrument.

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Revue et corrigée (101): 24–27.The significant novelty of Kyoka‘s first full length album “ is (Is Superpowered)” is that she uses her own voice much more often than usual, in the form of short snippets as well as longer sung melodies. 'William Basinski, The Disintegration Loops. 'The Disintegration Loops I-IV – Review'. 'William Basinski + Richard Chartier interview'. ' 'I wanted to be David Bowie': music maverick William Basinski'. ^ a b Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (April 10, 2019).'Divinity From Dust: The Healing Power Of 'The Disintegration Loops' '. 'William Basinski – The Disintegration Loops'. ^ a b c d e 'William Basinski | Biography & History'.American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. The Disintegration Loops (2012, Temporary Residence Limited).The Clocktower at the Beach (2023, Line).on reflection ' (2022, Temporary Residence Limited) (with Janek Schaefer) Lamentations (2020, Temporary Residence Limited).Hymns of Oblivion (2020, self-released).On Time Out of Time (2019, Temporary Residence Limited).Selva Oscura (2018, Temporary Residence Limited) (with Lawrence English).

Divertissement (2015, Important Records) (with Richard Chartier).Aurora Liminalis (2013, Line) (with Richard Chartier).Variations for Piano and Tape (2006, 2062).Untitled (2004, Spekk) (with Richard Chartier).Variations: A Movement in Chrome Primitive (2004, Durtro/Die Stadt).The Disintegration Loops IV (2003, 2062).A Red Score in Tile (2003, Three Poplars).The Disintegration Loops III (2003, 2062).The Disintegration Loops II (2003, 2062).While attempting to salvage the recordings in a digital format, the tapes slowly crumbled and left a timestamp history of their demise.

The recordings were based on old tape loops which had degraded in quality. In August and September 2001, he set to work on what would become his most recognizable piece, the four-volume album The Disintegration Loops. Basinski would later dedicate a track from A Shadow in Time to Bowie. On one occasion, he opened for David Bowie, playing saxophone with rockabilly band The Rockats. In 1989, he opened his own performance space, 'Arcadia' at 118 N. He was a member of many bands including Gretchen Langheld Ensemble and House Afire.

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Throughout the 1980s, Basinski created a vast archive of experimental works using tape loop and delay systems, found sounds, and shortwave radio static. At the time this work was created, Basinski was experimenting with compositions for piano and tape loops. Another 2-disc work was Variations: A Movement in Chrome Primitive, 1980: it was finally released in 2004 by David Tibet on the Durtro/Die Stadt label. This was followed by Watermusic, self-released in 2000 on Basinski's 2062 Records. Although created in 1983, it was first released on vinyl in a small edition in 1998 by Carsten Nicolai's Raster-Noton sub-label. He developed his meditative, melancholy style experimenting with short looped melodies played against themselves creating feedback loops. In 1978, inspired by minimalists such as Steve Reich and Brian Eno, he began developing his own vocabulary using tape loops and old reel-to-reel tape decks. Ī classically trained clarinetist, Basinski studied jazz saxophone and composition at the University of North Texas in the late 1970s. Basinski says he knew that he was gay from an early age. His father was a scientist contracted to NASA, which caused the family to move often. He was raised in a Catholic family, and states that he had his first 'really mystical, wonderful, magical' musical experiences as an infant at Houston's St. William James Basinski was born in 1958 in Houston, Texas. īasinski is best known for his four-volume album The Disintegration Loops (2002–2003), constructed from rapidly decaying twenty-year-old tapes of his earlier music. He is also a clarinetist, saxophonist, sound artist, and video artist. William James Basinski (born June 25, 1958) is an American avant-garde composer based in Los Angeles, California.

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