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Not everyone's cup of tea I'm sure. Reminds me of a Basic Chanel review that said "Never has it taken so long to do so little."
- The Disintegration Loops is based on Basinski's attempts to salvage earlier recordings made on magnetic tape, by transferring them into digital format; however, the tape had deteriorated to the point that, as it passed by the tape head, the ferrite detached from the plastic backing and fell off. The loops were allowed to play for extended periods as they deteriorated further, with increasing gaps and pauses in the music. These sounds were treated further with a spatializing reverb effect.[2] Basinski has said that he finished the project the morning of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, and sat on the roof of his apartment building in Brooklyn with friends listening to the project as the World Trade Center towers collapsed.[3] In 2011, Basinski corrected earlier reports where he described recording the last hour of daylight of 9/11 in N.Y.C. with a video camera focused on the smoke where the towers were from a neighbor's roof, then set the first loop as the sound-track to that footage. Stills from the video were used as the covers for the set of four CDs.
bhrgunatha · 2965 days ago · link ·
I love these pieces so much. I was once stuck on a bus for what should have been a 2 hour journey, but was severely delayed. I managed to listen to all 4 albums. That was fine though because I was able to really concentrate on them. I had read how they came about and so I ended up contemplating the nature of time, change and decay and how something so beautiful can come out of a dire situation. I finally got home after 8 and a half hours.