Upon release, The Disintegration Loops were held in high regard, praised for its ghostly sounds and emotions it evoked. I’m recording the life and death of a melody It just made me think of human beings, you know, and how we die. In a 2011 interview with RadioLab according to Pitchfork, Basinski claimed: As the night concluded, Basinski walked back to his apartment and played the footage along with “d|p 1.1,” creating a ghostly soundtrack. The first project finally concluded on Septemafter Basinski along with several friends climbed to the roof of his apartment building in the final hours of daylight watching and recording the pillars of smoke rise from Manhattan after the terrorist attacks which occurred hours earlier. Having an experimental mindset, Basinski kept repeating the tapes, watching them disintegrate and adding reverb.
While going through them, Basinski realized that the oxide from the analog would fall off and disintegrate before his eyes. Around twenty years later, Basinski returned to the tapes, wanting to digitize them. Basinski then began to record instrumental pieces from various sources such as radio stations and delay systems, sampling around five to ten seconds worth of material and then looping it using analog tapes.
The Disintegration Loops was a project that began sometime in the early 1980s, as Basinski was inspired by minimalist compositions from the likes of Steve Reich and ambient sounds from the likes of Brian Eno.
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The Disintegration Loops is the first album in a series of four to be released by acclaimed ambient musician William Basinski.
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