Though "The Disintegration Loops" holds gravitas, it is not his most severe or dark work.
When he synched the visual with the disintegration loops, something clicked.
Downstairs, he played music as loud as he could, until the "disintegration loops" started.
With "The Disintegration Loops" and "Cascade," he has built a career from fragments of old audio tape.
Basinski is best known for The Disintegration Loops - a series made from decaying tapes played to the backdrop of New York city in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
William Basinski, a composer and performer best known for "The Disintegration Loops," a landmark minimalist work indelibly linked to the horrific events of 9/11, presents a new piece.
The main offering was "The Disintegration Loops, dlp 1.1," a 40-minute work by the experimental composer William Basinski, presented here in the premiere of an orchestrated version by Maxim Moston.
But presented in the context of this somber anniversary concert, "The Disintegration Loops" offered a chance to find some solace in the tragedy, some sense that this loss will also, in time, be folded into the cycle of life.
The program includes Maxim Moston's orchestration of William Basinski's ambient score "The Disintegration Loops," as well as Ingram Marshall's "Fog Tropes II," Osvaldo Golijov's "Tenebrae" and Alfred Schnittke's "Collected Songs Where Every Verse Is Filled with Grief," in an arrangement by the Kronos Quartet.
This piece and its Disintegration Loop-companions have a storied past, deeply rooted in New York City and 9/11.
Basinski has dropped much wordage about this over the years since The Disintegration Loops were released, and much more since the new boxset recently dropped via Temporary Residence.
