hmm it definitely seems right-shifted to me, even in the iTunes samples. (NB I would buy it from eMusic but they won't let me join because I'm currently living out-of-the-states)
― 99. The Juggalo Teacher (dyao), Monday, 8 February 2010 00:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
i bought mine on Amazon Mp3 and it certainly sounds "right-shifted" to me
― kshighway (ksh), Monday, 8 February 2010 00:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah I guess fixing it in post would be against the spirit of the enterprise. really wish I could just put it on on headphones and zone out though...
― 99. The Juggalo Teacher (dyao), Monday, 8 February 2010 00:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
dyao technology
― nsuomy (ramon cora), Monday, 8 February 2010 01:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
(mine's not right-shifted btw)
hee waaannnt it
― 99. The Juggalo Teacher (dyao), Monday, 8 February 2010 01:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
Achieved something akin to Distintegrating Loops here, using two reel to reel machines feeding back on one another. Rather than the tape itself degrading though it's the signal being obliterated by the analogue recording process. Something like this is what makes tape so exciting to work with, it seems like a natural process.
http://automating.bandcamp.com/track/soundoffsound
― Department of Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification (S-), Monday, 8 February 2010 03:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
Available for download for one week:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2011/09/07/140265002/remembering-september-11-a-live-concert-webcast-from-the-temple-of-dendur
Wasn't sure about the added drums to start with, but it's growing on me.
― toby, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 10:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah saw that linked on p'fork. will listen tonight when writing. drums?!
― willem, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 10:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
download??
― Stories from Hull City, Stories from Hull FC (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 10:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just to the right of "hear this concert".
― toby, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 10:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wow Toby, thanks so much for sharing! Going to make a listening event of this tonight!
― Vision Kreayshawn Newsun (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 10:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Good stuff. I'm very interested in hearing this. Will zone out to it tonight.
― AnotherDeadHero, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 11:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
thx toby i looked and looked and couldn't find the link.
― Stories from Hull City, Stories from Hull FC (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 11:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/concerts/2011/09/20110911_concerts_dendur.mp3?dl=1
― Geirge Hongriot (NickB), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 12:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
wonderful stuff, thanks
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 17:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
heard this a few times today and it's really pretty great.
― toby, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 19:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
i was at the temple of dendur for this on sunday. writing a review now, it'll be up at frieze.com in a day or two
― geeta, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 19:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
yay frieze.com!
― Pizzataco Five (admrl), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 19:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Woah listening now, turns out my current employer sponsored this event! I knew there was a connection with Basinski and Sep 11th but didn't make the connection. You can hear them thanked at 5:23
― Pizzataco Five (admrl), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 20:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
there were a lot of people I recognized in the audience - Antony of Antony and the Johnsons, Tony Conrad, etc. Antony is like a big teddy bear in person.
― geeta, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 20:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Antony and William Basinski are long time friends. Very cool that TOny Conrad was there!
― Vision Kreayshawn Newsun (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 20:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah. when Conrad showed up, they asked him for his ticket, but he didn't have one (even though it was free, it was a ticketed event), so the Met guards wouldn't let him in. i gave him my +1 and got him into the show. i recognized him right away because i'd just seen him play the night before, at the Kitchen!
― geeta, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 20:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Aw, nice.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 20:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
that's awesome, geeta.
― Battlestar Gracián (crüt), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 20:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
the perfect music event??
― Battlestar Gracián (crüt), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 20:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
dude has an awesome apartment
― you got me again, beets!!! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 20:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
i wrangled the +1 by telling the press desk that Tony Conrad was my 'photographer'!
he would've been a great photographer for the article, we could've done something like this
― geeta, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 20:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
recognized him right away because i'd just seen him play the night before, at the Kitchen!
I didn't go to basinski, but just as an aside, conrad's set at the kitchen was really fun! didn't have much info beforehand and was very happy to see that he was playing with eli keszler. love that guy!
― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 20:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ryan McAdams, the guy who conducted this, was in the same rowboat as me at last year's performance of Xenakis' Persephassa on the lake in Central Park. We talked about music a bunch. Cool guy.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 21:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
A review in the NYT
Listening to this now. Very moving.
― Vision Kreayshawn Newsun (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 23:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
"dlp 1.1" has a stately, martial mood that the drums work well with, i think. the whole concert is lovely tho.
― Chapman Pincher Overdrive (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 12:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
I made it to 1:38 before the description of the venue had me welling up. The Disintegration loops rivals on Sinking of the titanic to have me in a heap on the floor. Potentially leave this till im out of the office
― straightola, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
I want an orchestration of the complete Disintegration Loops now, it really is very very well done.
― Chapman Pincher Overdrive (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Listening to this now. It really is overwhelmingly beautiful. The drums, as mentioned before, are an at first surprising but a wonderful addition throughout. An orchestration of the full Loops would be beyond amazing.
Aside of the Disintegration Loops I've only heard 'A Red Score In Tile', 'Melencholia' and '92982'. Anything else outstanding that I'm missing? I hope so!
― AnotherDeadHero, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 16:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
This is amazing. I prefer this to the recorded version of dlp 1.1.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 17:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
@AnotherDeadHero, I cannot recommend 'The Garden of Brokennness' enough, which is just utterly fantastic. His most 'silent' piece, I think, with a lot of built-in silence surrounded by melancholy piano. 'Silent Night' also is really great. But 'Garden' is an essential piece in Basinski's post-DLP era I'd say.
This concert is amazing. I listened to it in the dark last night and it really hit home. The drums are a daring touch but it works out so well. The whole concert sounds great though.
― Vision Kreayshawn Newsun (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 19:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oops, one 'n' too many in Brokenness there
― Vision Kreayshawn Newsun (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 19:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yes, I'm especially interested in tracking down a brass ensemble recording of Ingram Marshall's Fog Tropes II, the string quartet arrangement is beautiful but I can definitely imagine the original.
― Chapman Pincher Overdrive (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 19:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
I would also check out "The River", which remains a personal all-time favorite piece of music for falling-asleep purposes. way more subtle than Disintegration Loops but still worth yr time.
― punk rock hyrax (jamescobo), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 19:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
My desperate attempts to track down a reasonably priced copy of 'The River' have proven entirely fruitless. As has my search to find it lossless. Anyone have it in FLAC? My dreams would be forever in debt.
― AnotherDeadHero, Thursday, 15 September 2011 18:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
boomkat have it as a flac. don't know about 'reasonably priced' though.
http://boomkat.com/downloads/87532-william-basinski-the-river
― koogs, Thursday, 15 September 2011 18:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
going for about $20 on discogs:
http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?master_id=43599&ev=mb
― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Thursday, 15 September 2011 18:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
is 2 euros on raster noton site. not sure of format
https://shop.raster-noton.net/?release=the%20river (and don't know whether it's the remix, but for 2E i'm not sure i care)
― koogs, Thursday, 15 September 2011 18:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
I managed to get a copy of 'The River'. Normans Records were having a half price sale and I picked it up for £10. I also ordered 'Silent Night' and 'A Red Score in tile'. I've heard the latter before but the former I'm unfamiliar with.
I have to be honest though, I've only listened to 'The River' once (just disc 1 at that) and great as it was I found it mildly unsettling as sleeping music.
― AnotherDeadHero, Thursday, 22 September 2011 11:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
just came here to see if anyone else had noticed how the mix of dlp1.1 shifts big to the right, it really is unlistenable on headphones. does anyone know how to fix it?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 17:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yes, dlp1.1 on my copy of Disintegration Loops 1 CD is also "right-shifted." Basically, only the faintest of sounds come out of my left monitor when playing this track.Some places like itunes and amazon seemed to have right/left balanced mp3 samples, so not sure what happened to the CD pressing. Agreed that it is a miserable experience to listen to dlp1.1 on headphones... I can't do it.
― mishymashy, Sunday, 8 April 2012 02:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think they've just re-released all these - they all turned up in last boomkat email.
wouldn't be hard to fix mp3s of this - could either amplify the quiet channel (although that may sound muffled) or just make them mono. not ideal but better than it currently is.
― koogs, Sunday, 8 April 2012 08:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
The UK distributor certainly just got hold of copies of a lot of Basinski's own label titles once again - I don't know if this means an actual re-release or just a re-ship to the UK.
― only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Sunday, 8 April 2012 09:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
Live in London:
http://www.last.fm/event/3275646+William+Basinski+Performs+Disintegration+Loops
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 10:51 (1 year ago) Permalink