Close enough to our houses or friends houses or favorite places in the mountains that we watch slowly be eaten by a red line as the Facebook group updates the fire perimeter.
The disintegration loops series#
Because if you aren’t talking about the smoke, it’s because a fire has come close enough to talk about that instead. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. The origin story of The Disintegration Loops is near mythic: in September 2001, electronic composer William Basinski uncovered a series of tape loops of. He immediately realized that he was recording the life and death of a melody, as it devolved, and distorted, and disappeared. I have not had a conversation in over a month that didn’t at least touch on the smoke. The loop would start out fully-formed but as it ran through the machine over and over and over, bits of tape peeled off and the sound morphed in real time. The old worn out magnetic tape began to slowly flake off as he digitized them. The world premiere of Maxim Mostons live orchestration of Basinskis The Disintegration Loops will take place at the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan. As the 20th anniversary of 9/11 looms near, William Basinski contemplates the enduring legacy of 'The Disintegration Loops' (his elegy to the 2001 Attacks), while quarantined in the midst of COVID-19. Fire has become its own season, largely ousting summer apart from a few weeks after the solstice. William Basinskis ambient music series The Disintegration Loops was released in this context, becoming part of a post-9/11 cultural discourse that allowed. The Disintegration Loops A serendipitous accident involving crumbling magnetic tapes of Muzak led William Basinski to create his watershed ambient work The Disintegration Loops, from 2001. Disintegration Loops: Directed by David Wexler. Both conversationally and to some degree physically. TIDAL is the first global music streaming service with high fidelity sound, hi-def video quality, along with expertly curated playlists and original content.
Where I live it has replaced the weather. But what he didn’t expect was that these short repetitive melodies and fragments of music would begin to change right there. 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. Purchasing The Disintegration Loops from Amazon helps support Album of the Year. Every little passage feels just at least a little bit different. By predating the attacks, it’s the only piece of art to come out of them completely sidestepping any reactionary tendencies it is nothing more or less than an impersonal documentary record of the auditory effects of destruction. The hour-long song is scary, but in the end, it becomes a pretty worthwhile track.
In 2001, William Basinski began digitizing his collection of analog tape loops. THE DISINTEGRATION LOOPS wasn’t shaped by 9/11, but it is about it.
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