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Nov9

Washington DC

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About William Basinski

William Basinski, born in 1958 in Houston, Texas, is a Los Angeles-based experimental composer and sound artist renowned for his evocative ambient works that capture themes of memory, decay, and time. Trained in clarinet and saxophone at Richardson High School and later studying composition at North Texas State University, Basinski was profoundly influenced by avant-garde pioneers such as John Cage, Steve Reich, and Brian Eno. Throughout the 1980s, he developed his distinct sonic language using reel-to-reel tape decks, Mellotron, and analog keyboards, creating a vast archive of tape loop experiments that would shape his groundbreaking career.

Basinski gained international recognition with his 2002 release, "The Disintegration Loops," a haunting series created by the gradual physical deterioration of decades-old tape loops during digitization. This accidental process, coinciding with the September 11 attacks, imbued the work with an unintentional but powerful elegiac quality. The project was later performed at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and secured a place in the National 9/11 Museum’s permanent collection, solidifying Basinski’s role as a seminal figure in contemporary ambient and experimental music.

His extensive discography features albums like "Watermusic" (2000), "Melancholia" (2003), "Cascade" (2015), and "Lamentations" (2020), the latter weaving together four decades of decaying analog sound fragments. Basinski has also collaborated with diverse artists including Janek Schaefer, jazz-hip-hop duo Sparkle Division, and Richard Chartier, expanding the emotional depth and textural richness of his work. Known for his evolving drones and melancholic tones, William Basinski continues to be a unique and influential voice in the realm of sound art.

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Alternative•Classical•Electro•Pop•Rock