David Wexler’s short documentary, Disintegration Loops, explores the work and legacy of composer and experimental musician William Basinski. The film focuses primarily on Basinki’s best-known work: ...

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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 ...

"Trying to make something from nothing..." An early festival promo trailer has debuted for a documentary film titled Disintegration Loops, which is premiering at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival this week.

Composer and tape loop artist William Basinski will be on tour this fall, including appearances at Boise’s Treefort Music Festival, Miami’s III Points and Hudson, NY’s Basilica Soundscape, and ...

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Disintegration Loop 1.1 consists of one static shot of lower Manhattan billowing smoke during the last hour of daylight on September 11th, 2001, set to the decaying pastoral tape loop Basinski had ...

As the 20th anniversary of 911 looms near William Basinski contemplates the enduring legacy of The Disintegration Loops his elegy to the 2001 Attacks while ...