It is hard to say what mood I need to be in to have the urge to put on The Disintegration Loops, because it is hard to say what mood they express. The same five- or 10-second loop, so obviously ...

Composer and ambient experimentalist William Basinski has announced a new box set reissue of his classic ambient work The Disintegration Loops. Dubbed the Arcadia Archive Edition, it features the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...