sometimes i listen to this stuff all day long
― surm, Monday, 13 August 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
On a tetchier note, can we ban from all 'high art' events (for want of a better term) all hipsters, young people, or anyone incapable of a) arriving on time; ii) sitting quietly for more than two minutes; and 3) going for any length of time without a drink or a smoke.
he performed 'vivian & ondine' at this little gallery space in LA a month ago and had to start over about two minutes in because he couldn't be heard over the sound of people outside talking/laughing/opening beer/etc
― half-worm inchworm tapeworm (donna rouge), Monday, 13 August 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
I've never heard any of the live performances - how do they emulate the disintegration effect? do players just gradually drop out over time?
roughly speaking, yes, although they all fade out individually.
― toby, Monday, 13 August 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
ah ok, that's what I expected. I assume the score has unique instructions for each player - "long decrescendo between measures 400-500", or whatever.
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Monday, 13 August 2012 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
tangent, but people with billions of dollars have no idea how to have fun. if i was made of money, i'd hire an orchestra to play this, but instead of having them gradually fade out, i'd physically obscure the players. the stage would be composed of 16 or so modular units on wheels. over the course of the piece, a team of people would gradually dissemble the stage units and begin wheeling them off into an adjacent hall, turning them away from the audience, holding up long metal tubes in front of certain players. or better yet, at the same time, dissemble the audience and wheel them off at the same time, slowly.
but whatever rich people, buy your yacht, whatever
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Monday, 13 August 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
oh yeah, and also the hypothetical rich person would pay basinski and the orchestra handsomely for their performance and then perform it repeatedly for free, instead of for $50+ in a music hall.
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Monday, 13 August 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
if I was that rich, maybe I could buy a copy of this boxset
― frogbs, Monday, 13 August 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
Hoping this box set means people will just sell the cds so I can just pick up the ones I don't have for cheap. That or win the box set somehow.
― formerly EDB (ed.b), Monday, 13 August 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
UK: http://www.normanrecords.com/records/135893-william-basinski--the-disintegration
― djh, Monday, 13 August 2012 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
Re: the live disintegration, in 2.1 the actual disintegrating tape noise was simulated with percussion - snare brushing, rim tapping, and as already mentioned amplified clingfilm (or cellophane? It looked like clingfilm but I would have thought that would be too soft and quiet.)
― kmfdotm (ledge), Monday, 13 August 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
UK: http://www.normanrecords.com/records/135893-william-basinski--the-disintegration― djh, Monday, August 13, 2012
― djh, Monday, August 13, 2012
Almost £300! You can have it shipped direct from the label to the UK for £175...
― Barnaby, Hardly, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 10:40 (eleven years ago) link
You will get hit with VAT + customs duty + handling charge on parcel that size from the USA, almost without doubt. I would also fear for the safety of such a mammoth box coming all on its lonesome from the USA, however well they pack it. Tough choices...
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 11:25 (eleven years ago) link
Not that I'm saying that buying from Norman et al in the UK is an inherently 'better' choice, just that there may be more to consider than pure pricing.
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 11:47 (eleven years ago) link
I hear you. But those additional charges won't get close to £125. I'm expecting then to be in the region of £50.
Also, the boxes still have to come from the US to get to Norman Records... Though they'll obviously be part of a larger, safer shipment.
I sold my unplayed Warp 20 boxset to fund this one, so you're mostly just reading me convincing myself that I've made the right decision to order direct...
― Barnaby, Hardly, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:02 (eleven years ago) link
Absolutely - the main thing is to enjoy it!
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:19 (eleven years ago) link
"I hear you. But those additional charges won't get close to £125. I'm expecting then to be in the region of £50."
Recently bought the Can box from US Amazon 'cos with that price even in the likely event I got hit with the extortionate fees & tax, it was still going to work out at pretty much the same price as UK Amazon.
― Wandering Boy Poet, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 13:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://philsbootlegs.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/william-basinski-disintegration-loops.html
― Barnaby, Hardly, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2012/11/12/164978574/divinity-from-dust-the-healing-power-of-the-disintegration-loops
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 November 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
gr8 editing npr
"an old pile of old recordings"
"he keep the loops running"
― am0n, Friday, 16 November 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
was listed in boomkat newsletter today, £299, free postage.
http://boomkat.com/vinyl/561223-william-basinski-the-disintegration-loops-deluxe-box-set
― koogs, Saturday, 17 November 2012 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
the frustrating thing, about being a record store that wanted to stock this, was that i placed a pre-order with a distributor. so it arrives and i'm trying to figure out what to price the damn thing at so that it's reasonably competitive, only to find that you can buy it direct from the label as a consumer for less than i paid for it wholesale. which is.. frustrating, wanting to be a retailed who carries something cool like this, but also being in a position where it's almost impossible to be competitive w/r/t pricing. meaning... i probably don't sell these things.
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Saturday, 17 November 2012 00:53 (eleven years ago) link
Just been listening to Radiolab's podcast (http://www.radiolab.org/2011/oct/04/) where they talk about the disintegration loops and interview WB himself. There's a little discussion about the relationship between the sounds on the tapes and the way in which the tape degrades; the decay parts of the chords decay first, the attack parts last. Do any of you have any idea why this might be?
― neilasimpson, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 13:07 (eleven years ago) link
i was just listening to that episode the other day! it's a great one. the only thing i could think of is that perhaps it has to do with the direction that the tape was looping. imagine a surface with a series of bumps. if you repeatedly ran your hand from right to left over the bumps, the bumps on the right might wear down faster than the ones on the left. maybe it's similar with the tape - with the attack on the left and the decay on the right.
― dexpresso (Z S), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
in other personal listening relationship to william basinski news, i love disintegration loops, but i think i love melancholia and 92982 even more. what a guy!
― dexpresso (Z S), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
new Basinski:
http://boomkat.com/cds/711685-william-basinski-nocturnes
― koogs, Thursday, 16 May 2013 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
Ausgezeichnet.
― the europan nikon is here (grauschleier), Friday, 17 May 2013 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
http://devonrecordclub.com/2013/10/16/william-basinski-the-disintegration-loops-round-55-robs-choice/
― J-Lo Biafra (Rob Mitchell), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link
Roughly a dozen Basinski albums just showed up on Spotify--more or less his entire discography *except* for Disintegration Loops. http://open.spotify.com/artist/6u5axd0rpDsWSmzhFfb2VB
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 2 February 2014 18:07 (ten years ago) link
good spot, thank you -- i feel like the (unexpanded) loops used to be on there but i don't know if i trust that
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Sunday, 2 February 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link
yeah thanks - I have an "orphaned artists" playlist for ones like Basinski where the only things on Spotify were by accident as part of some other comp or soundtrack (i.e La Monte Young, Zoviet France, etc) - now I can take Basinski off that list.
― sleeve, Monday, 3 February 2014 16:09 (ten years ago) link
https://24.media.tumblr.com/60a5c656311fc310e7d7cffaace5bbe6/tumblr_n1ujj93P1F1qzoue7o1_1280.jpg
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 3 March 2014 06:42 (ten years ago) link
I think this tweet was the highlight of the Oscars for me.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 3 March 2014 06:43 (ten years ago) link
lol
― death and darkness and other night kinda shit (crüt), Monday, 3 March 2014 06:43 (ten years ago) link
is he producing new music these days? seems like the only things i've seen him release the past few years are reissues and reworkings of older pieces.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 02:09 (ten years ago) link
he's on bbc6 freak zone this week talking about stuff. probably these upcoming gigs.
http://www.factmag.com/2013/11/20/william-basinski-to-recreate-his-storied-arcadia-venue-in-east-london-recruits-charlemagne-palestine-and-rhys-chatham-for-shows/
― koogs, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 09:23 (ten years ago) link
(which start tonight)
― koogs, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 09:24 (ten years ago) link
Performing in Pasadena next month: http://axsfestival.org/2014/program/solunaris/
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 11:33 (nine years ago) link
only really knowing basinski as the disintegration loops guy, this is somewhat surprising to see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmL3NR9nrFI
― cis-het shitlord (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 14:42 (nine years ago) link
i had a heavy phase with this guy years ago, i even got to do an amazing phone interview with him once...but for some reason, for the past year or so, i just haven't been able to get the same feeling out of his music. i still let it run when a track comes up in my sleep or writing playlist, and it's nice, but i don't know...i have some kind of mental blockage with it now. re: ambient, this also happened for me with stars of the lid, though eno, budd, gas, and ambient vangelis are still fine...
― soyrev, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link
<3 this:
https://twitter.com/WilliamBasinski/status/628610802526752769
― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:10 (eight years ago) link
^ looking very debonair as usual btw, like some sort of parisian gangster mountie
― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:11 (eight years ago) link
London Gig
http://store.unionchapel.org.uk/events/23-feb-16-william-basinski---shadow-in-time-uk-premiere-union-chapel/
― koogs, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 14:21 (eight years ago) link
I'm going to try and use disintegration loops to get my toddler to go to sleep at night. Max Richter and Eluvium have failed. I'm counting on you William.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 14:33 (eight years ago) link
Should work like a charm. Some weeks last year during a distressing period my girlfriend used 92982 with great success.
― the european nikon is here (grauschleier), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 15:03 (eight years ago) link
http://www.mmlxii.com/products/576589-92982-2xlp
― the european nikon is here (grauschleier), Thursday, 1 September 2016 08:35 (seven years ago) link
First great news of 2017: new album! http://p4k.in/1GqqFRZ
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link
Looking forward to listening to this Friday.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Thursday, 19 January 2017 01:43 (seven years ago) link
Actually, check that. At work, at least during the inauguration, I'll have my Disintegration Loops playing in the background.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Thursday, 19 January 2017 01:45 (seven years ago) link
If U.S.A is still a thing when I get up on Saturday, I'll check the new one out...
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Thursday, 19 January 2017 01:47 (seven years ago) link
Next month in Pasadena William Basinski is being honored at a benefit for Fulcrum Arts, and he and Lawrence English will perform their new Selva Oscura live for the first time.
Fulcrum (with which I’m involved) supports a lot of amazing artists including sound artists and experimental music. They’ll be presenting a new piece by Lawrence English later this year, for instance, also in LA.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fulcrum-arts-annual-benefit-honoring-william-basinski-and-ligo-caltech-tickets-51407507238
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 15:43 (five years ago) link