I usually don’t hold much trust in music recommendation sites but one producer I discovered a few years ago thanks to Last.FM’s “you like this dude, you might like this dude” system was the brilliant William Baskinski. A quick dive into his discography unveiled a collection of quality modern classical music, left of centre electronica [...]

Sei A, aka Glasgow's Andy Graham, steps up with the first DJ mix of 2012 featuring the likes of Aphex Twin, Motorbass, Objekt, Patten and more. As well as heading up his own Seinan Music label, Sei A's most recent releases have been on Tiga's Turbo Recordings including an album 'White Rainbow' in 2010 and the 'Frozen Flower' E.P. in November last year. Listen to the mix above, download it for later enjoyment below, or grab on iTunes HERE . DOWNLOAD THE SEI A DJ MIX HERE (right click and 'Save as...') SEI A tracklist 1. Andy ...

When William Basinski opened his nightclub Arcadia in 1992, Williamsburg had more than a decade of history as an outerborough artists' colony. Arcadia and a handful of other entities such as The Lizard's Tail, Lalalandia, Test-Site gallery, Nerve Circle Studios,...

by Jeff Rovinelli • October 2011 On September 11, 2011, the Wordless Music Orchestra performed the world premier of Maxim Moston ’s orchestration of William Basinski ’s “d|p 1.1,” the first and longest track from Basinski’s four-album The Disintegration Loops , in commemoration of the events of September 11, 2001. Basinski’s original version, created in 2001 by digitally recording the organic decay of tape loops he had composed and set to tape in the 1980s as they passed again and again through the recording device, warping and disintegrating, decomposing and de-composing, has now become something of legend, released ...

Artist: William Basinski Album: 92982 Genre: ambient, minimalism, drone, tape music Year: 2009 Label: 2062 Web: buy , last.fm , myspace Mirror~Bitrate~Size: mediafire | vbr ~177 | 79 Tracklist: 1 92982.1 12:53 2 92982.2 22:44 3 92982.4 19:59 4 92982.3 7:07

One of the many pieces of music changed or inspired by the events of 9/11 is ambient composer  William Basinski 's four-volume The Disintegration Loops , which he was in the midst of recording in his Brooklyn apartment when the attacks occurred.

WQXR : In September 11, 2011 at 3:30 p.m., NPR Music and Q2 present a live audio Webcast of Remembering September 11: a free concert on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks from the Metropolitan Museum’s majestic Temple of Dendur. The afternoon’s program features the world premiere orchestration by Maxim Moston of William Basinski’s The Disintegration Loops as well as meditative, memorial works from Ingram Marshall, Osvaldo Golijov and Alfred Schnittke, performed by the Wordless Music Orchestra under the direction of Ryan McAdams. Hosted by NPR Music’s Anastasia Tsioulcas and WQXR /Q2’s ...

Bad Panda has been in love with loop-based music lately. We have never hidden our love for Monster Rally and we recently enjoyed new albums by Tiger & Woods and The Field. And we always loved William Basinski. And now it’s time for Nineteen Eight Eight. Nineteen Eight Eight – Beach Flats EP [ZIP] 01 [...]

As previously mentioned , William Basinski's still-powerful Disintegration Loops (specifically, the hour-long opening track "dlp 1.1" ) will be performed as a live orchestration this afternoon by The Wordless Music Orchestra to mark the 10th anniversary of 9/11. The performance will be preceded by three other musical works that deal with themes of memory and memorial, and the full (free) program begins at 3:30 PM EDT in the Temple of Dendur exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. If you're anywhere near Manhattan right now, start walking. If you're nowhere near Manhattan right now, here's ...

William Basinski at Issue Project Room (more by Lori Baily) William Basinski's "The Disintegration Loops" will illuminate the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Sunday, as part of a FREE show "for the people of New...

From mawkish ballads to pro-war pop, there have been some awful attempts to commemorate 9/11 in song. But the terrorist attacks have inspired fitting tributes too … Ten years on from 9/11, some remarkably varied and moving music has been made in response to the tragedy. First to emerge were the tributes, such as the Californian radio DJ whose daughter acted out the part of a grieving child who had lost her father, and who then laid the recording over the acoustic version of DJ Sammy's Heaven . So sentimental as to become grotesque, even dishonest, it nevertheless prompted ...

Thanks to Altered Zones for shedding some light on this new piece by Lawrence English , one of the last decades most prolific proponents of sound as art (sound art). You can get a taste of his upcoming LP on label/mailorder site Experimedia via this time-warped video. And I don't just say 'time-warped' because its an easy critical bullshit-spewing trendy term! "Frost's Bitter Grip" actually feels like time slowing down, or at least as if a giant orchestral movement has been chopped and screwed and blared from distance. There is a lumbering gorgeousness here, much like William Basinski ...

Remember a minute ago when we announced that HBO is broadcasting a George Harrison documentary this fall? Maybe it's jealousy, or maybe it's the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Center atrocity, but Paul McCartney has made a very timely announcement of his own documentary, detailing his personal experience with 9/11 and debuting September 10 on HBO's rival network, Showtime. Paul McCartney has always been admirable in his humanitarian efforts, but let's ask ourselves a few questions here to justify a documentary (entitled The Love We Make ) about Sir McCartney's trauma in the disaster ...

When William Basinski's Disintegration Loops collection was released in 2002, it reached an audience that normally might have been unreceptive to the kind of hushed, largely static music within, but because of its thematic (and sonic) link to the events of a few months prior, these haunting, fragile recordings affected a lot of people and served as a peaceful meditation, memorial, and reminder. When we looked back at our favorite albums of the 2000s , Disintegration Loops came in at #10, and Keith Kawaii had this to say about its historical/personal significance: Disintegration Loops was a perfect example of ...

Pitchfork : William Basinski created the ambient album The Disintegration Loops I-IV in his Brooklyn apartment during the months surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks. On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the Wordless Music Orchestra will perform the world premiere of Basinski’s piece “The Disintegration Loops, dlp 1.1” in New York City. The concert will happen in the Temple of Dendur, the truly striking Egyptian exhibit in the Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art… Read and comment. From pitchfork.com.