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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 ...

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Ambient composer and Disintegration Loops creator William Basinski will be presenting special shows at churches in four US cities this fall. He’s calling the shows the Arcadia Archives Tour: “Live ...

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, ...

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 (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 ...