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In Focus: William Basinski
28.07.23 · Los Angeles

In Focus: William Basinski

US composer Basinski is most well known for his work "The Disintegration Tapes", a series of fractured minimalist compositions, the recording of which coincided with the September 11th, 2001 attacks in New York. The tapes' sound – drifting abstraction at once chillingly distant and claustrophobically intimate – are a constant emotional motif of his wider work, which spans musique concrete, ambient, and minimalist tape plundering.

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    92982.3
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    El Camino Real
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    Nocturnes
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    Watermusic II
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    Cascade
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    Tear Vial

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    Please, This Shit Has Got To Stop
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    Disintegration Loops 6 (D_p 6)
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    A Red Score In Tile Pt. 1
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    For Whom The Bell Tolls
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    Silent Night
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    The Trail Of Tears
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    For David Robert Jones
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    The Wheel Of Fortune