Recently, all four cd’s (almost 5 hours of disintegrating loops!) are reissued. Rumour around this project has grown to near mythical proportions. The Disintegration Loops were hard to find originally. I am not sure yet if it’s the concept, the coincidence, or the music itself that makes The Disintegration Loops so very impressive.īut in the end, this doesn’t really matter. … In the next days and weeks, I watched as I and my friends disintegrated in our own personal loops of fear and terror…each one happening on it’s own terms, in it’s own language, at it’s own pace’ We sat on the roof terrace in lawn chairs and watched the fires burning all day into night with the Disintegration Loops playing in the background. At that point, ‘Disintegration’ became quite a different dimension. That, in itself, already is quite symbolic, but the story got another dimension when these tapes, played at his New York appartment, accidentally became a soundtrack for the 2001 09-11 disaster. William immediately realised the symbolic potential and recorded this process of disintegration as a new musical project. (Remember the brown dust on your cassette-recorder playback heads?). If you can remember this analog reel-to-reel tapes (or cassettes), and imagine them to be used as a real physical loop (end glued to beginning), you can almost see how they started to deteriorate when played endlessly. Upon re-discovering his own archives, William Basinski found some old analog tape-recordings of some ‘pastoral pieces’ of his own work, recorded in the early 80’s. Just an extract from 'The Disintegration Loop' here the exaustive review from :You are slowly being destroyed.
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