Posts Tagged: william basinski
ACL 2020 ~ The Top 20 Albums of the Year
After all the chaos of 2020, there’s some solace found in the fact that the artist who scored our Album of the Decade at the beginning of the year now receives our Album of the Year award at year’s end.
ACL 2020 ~ The Top 20 Albums of the Year
After all the chaos of 2020, there’s some solace found in the fact that the artist who scored our Album of the Decade at the beginning of the year now receives our Album of the Year award at year’s end.
ACL 2020 ~ Top Ten Ambient
A Closer Listen received over 10,000 submissions this year, 7000 of them valid, and we listened to at least a segment of every one. Now we’ve chosen 70 of them ~ one percent ~ to include in our year-end lists. The competition has never
ACL 2020 ~ Top Ten Ambient
A Closer Listen received over 10,000 submissions this year, 7000 of them valid, and we listened to at least a segment of every one. Now we’ve chosen 70 of them ~ one percent ~ to include in our year-end lists. The competition has never
William Basinski ~ Lamentations
A low, slow, bell tolls during the opening minutes of Lamentations. The album title references the Jewish book of mourning; the track title references John Donne. We are in a time of lamentation right now, and the bell tolls for all
William Basinski ~ Lamentations
A low, slow, bell tolls during the opening minutes of Lamentations. The album title references the Jewish book of mourning; the track title references John Donne. We are in a time of lamentation right now, and the bell tolls for all
Sound Propositions 015: Lawrence English
Sound Propositions is an ongoing, semi-regular series of conversations with artists exploring their creative practices and individual aesthetics, conceived of as a counter-narrative to a dominant trend in music journalism which fetishizes equipment and new technologies. Rather than writing copy
Sound Propositions 015: Lawrence English
Sound Propositions is an ongoing, semi-regular series of conversations with artists exploring their creative practices and individual aesthetics, conceived of as a counter-narrative to a dominant trend in music journalism which fetishizes equipment and new technologies. Rather than writing copy
Giovanni Lami ~ Bias
It’s like a garden, where everything grows by itself and you need to make just a few things, to see what is going to happen most of the time. -Giovanni Lami Does a physical medium simply contain (or mediate) a
Giovanni Lami ~ Bias
It’s like a garden, where everything grows by itself and you need to make just a few things, to see what is going to happen most of the time. -Giovanni Lami Does a physical medium simply contain (or mediate) a
ACL 2013: Top Ten Experimental
What’s new? The Experimental field has the answers: tortured tapes, disturbing images, military drums, a garden of monsters brought to life. This selection is where to turn for the most creative and original music of the year. You’ve been warned!
ACL 2013: Top Ten Experimental
What’s new? The Experimental field has the answers: tortured tapes, disturbing images, military drums, a garden of monsters brought to life. This selection is where to turn for the most creative and original music of the year. You’ve been warned!
William Basinski + Richard Chartier ~ Aurora Liminalis
In as much as an experimental musician can be a celebrity in a country that values intellect and art less and less with each passing election cycle, William Basinski is a household name. More appropriately, he’s crossed over. Time has
William Basinski + Richard Chartier ~ Aurora Liminalis
In as much as an experimental musician can be a celebrity in a country that values intellect and art less and less with each passing election cycle, William Basinski is a household name. More appropriately, he’s crossed over. Time has
A Landscape of Decay
Re-exploring William Basinski’s The Disintegration Loops by Zachary Corsa Disintegration is a subtle, whispering, barely-realized theme of everything we do in life. It’s as finely woven into the textures of humanity as birth, creation, war, sex and love. Every day
A Landscape of Decay
Re-exploring William Basinski’s The Disintegration Loops by Zachary Corsa Disintegration is a subtle, whispering, barely-realized theme of everything we do in life. It’s as finely woven into the textures of humanity as birth, creation, war, sex and love. Every day
a closer listen 