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Home Tag Archives: william basinski

Tag Archives: william basinski

William Basinski: Lamentations

By Daniel Bromfield
November 11, 2020
in :  Music, Music Reviews

This is a meditation both on sadness and the way we conjure it through music.

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William Basinski: On Time Out of Time

By Daniel Bromfield
March 12, 2019
in :  Music, Music Reviews

The black holes that feature on this album are 30 times the mass of our Sun, but they’re puny next to the universes Basinski conjures.

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William Basinski and Lawrence English: Selva Oscura

By Nathan Stevens
October 21, 2018
in :  Music, Music Reviews

English and Basinski have run the gamut of literary references and the emotional spectrum.

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William Basinski: A Shadow in Time

By Nathan Stevens
January 18, 2017
in :  Music, Music Reviews
William Basinski: A Shadow in Time

A Shadow in Time makes a beautiful funeral procession for David Bowie.

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William Basinski: 92982

By Daniel Bromfield
September 18, 2016
in :  Music, Music Reviews

A good entry point to the Basinski catalog.

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William Basinski: Cascade/The Deluge

By Jake Cole
May 6, 2015
in :  Music, Music Reviews

Cascade lacks the surprise of Basinski's more adventurous sonic juxtapositions and modulations, remaining instead in the original groove and varying most by shifting dynamics.

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William Basinski: Melancholia

By Rob Rubsam
June 4, 2014
in :  Music, Music Reviews, Recommended, Recommended Music

[xrr rating=4.0/5]William Basinski has built a career out of ephemerality, or at least its illusion. Where once he traded in bare repetition, the release of the Disintegration Loops in the wake of 9/11 revitalized his career by focusing on the death of sound, decay and dust cluttering his post-2000 recordings. Melancholia, re-released this year by Temporary Residence Ltd., is perhaps …

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Interview: William Basinski

By David Harris
March 18, 2014
in :  Music, Music Features, Music Interviews

"Working with tape loops is interesting is because you’re working with your fingers and a piece of plastic and scissors and scotch tape."

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William Basinski: A Red Score in Tile

By Rob Rubsam
March 9, 2014
in :  Music, Music Reviews

[xrr rating=3.5/5]That A Red Score in Tile took a somewhat circuitous route to reach us today is fairly obvious. Originally recorded in 1979, it was issued in 2004 in Germany and finally reissued via composer William Basinski’s 2062 label. Anyone familiar with Basinski’s work, particularly “Melancholia” or “The Garden of Brokenness,” will know the drill here: a roughly eight-note progression …

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William Basinski: The Disintegration Loops

By Rodger Coleman
December 10, 2012
in :  Music, Music Reviews, Recommended, Recommended Music

[xrr rating=4.5/5]The story of The Disintegration Loops is truly astonishing and key to understanding its significance as a work of art. In the summer of 2001, composer William Basinski decided to digitize a number of old analog tape loops found in a closet, in order to preserve them for his archives. These were tapes he made back in the 1980s …

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