![]() ![]() Basinski himself, in the liner notes, dedicates the work to the victims of 9/11. It’s nearly impossible to avoid the cover of each of its four volumes depicts New York in the hours after the collision. The very passage of time is it's most effective instrument. William Basinski’s 2002 ambient album, The Disintegration Loops, is most often talked about in relation to the September 11 attacks. From it's 20-year gestation period to it's 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. This set also includes all of the remastered recordings on 5 CDs, the rare 63-minute The Disintegration Loops film on DVD, and a 144-page full-color coffee. For a collection of music built around the poignant inevitability of decay, there has been. of archiving and digitizing analog tape loops from work I had done in 1982. While living in Brooklyn, he set up a tape machine, hooked it to a digital recorder and began recording these short loops, knowing that the tape would eventually deteriorate if left in storage. #THE DISINTEGRATION LOOPS SERIES#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. The Disintegration Loops is a monumental ambient work, consisting of six tracks for a total length of almost five hours. 9 LPs, 5 CDs, a DVD and a 144-page full-color coffee table book. This series of 4 Disintegration Loops has become one of the true phenoms of. In 2001, William Basinski began digitizing his collection of analog tape loops. The audio was remastered in 2012 from the original master tapes, and the artwork is packaged in deluxe old-style tip-on gatefold jackets. ![]() To appease those who missed out on the now-legendary, highly sought-after (and highly sold-out) box sets, we are offering the four volumes of the Disintegration Loops suite as separate, individually packaged albums. Once upon a time, there was William Basinski, an avant-garde musician with a classical education, who could lead an orchestra and was not afraid of an experimental approach to music. The Disintegration Loops are one of the finest example of the most hauntingly beautyful and down to earth, but also out of this world sounds recordings of human. ![]()
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