Composer and ambient experimentalist William Basinski has announced a new box set reissue of his classic ambient work The Disintegration Loops. Dubbed the Arcadia Archive Edition, it features the ...

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Sparkle Division, the collaborative project between composer and The Disintegration Loops creator William Basinski, engineer Preston Wendel and Gary Thomas Wright, have announced their second album, ...

Few pieces of ambient music slap as hard as William Basinski’s The Disintegration Loops, a series of four albums released in 2002 and 2003. Is it appropriate to call such an elegant audio rendering of ...

William Basinski (born 25 June 1958) is an American avant-garde composer based in New York City. He is also a clarinetist, saxophonist, sound artist, and video artist. Basinski is best known for his ...

There may be no greater gulf between an artist’s onstage persona and their music than that of William Basinski. At least that was my impression when I caught a set by the composer in Amsterdam earlier ...

William Basinski, self-described composer of “experimental electronic ambient music," played selections from his new CD Nocturnes at Issue Project Room’s Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain ...