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For those of you that don’t know, The Disintegration Loops is a longform ambient work constructed by composer William Basinski. According to lore, Basinski was in the process of transferring ...

"Trying to make something from nothing..." An early festival promo trailer has debuted for a documentary film titled Disintegration Loops, which is premiering at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival this week.

David Wexler’s short documentary, Disintegration Loops, explores the work and legacy of composer and experimental musician William Basinski. The film focuses primarily on Basinki’s best-known work: ...

Composer and tape loop artist William Basinski will be on tour this fall, including appearances at Boise’s Treefort Music Festival, Miami’s III Points and Hudson, NY’s Basilica Soundscape, and ...

A new era is born.

For over 30 years, William Basinski has worked with tape loops. A stunning vinyl box set collects his best-known work, The Disintegration Loops, a... Divinity From Dust: The Healing Power Of 'The ...

You know, when I first went into the studio that day — it was a beautiful summer day in New York — I was panicking because I didn’t have any work and was about to be evicted. I picked up this little ...

It's Christmas Eve and we are going to go celebrate being young and being alive.

As a child, avant-garde composer William Basinski was playing penny poker with several of his 28 cousins when an uncle, prominent Texas politician Hank Grover, happened by. Basinski hadn't won a ...

Stephen Cramer‘s The Disintegration Loops comes at the reader in leaps and bounds. Author of six previous books of poems and a volume of translations, and editor of the anthology Turn It Up! Music in ...