![]() The record begins slowly, with the heavy drones creating a wind-like effect, slowly settling in the background. ![]() Still, in this standalone offering, Basinski navigates these galactic themes through his trademark style. On Time Out of Time is a body of work that was commissioned by artists Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand (in collaboration with Jean-Marc Chomaz), and therefore there was initially a visual counterpart to this aural experience. Here, the centerpiece of his work is the recordings from the interferometers of LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory), which captured the sound of two massive black holes merging 1.3 billion years ago. For his new record, On Time Out of Time, Basinski travels again through time, but much further than he has done before. And, it is this inventiveness and boundless experimentation that is always expected from him.īasinski now returns two years after a very strong and interesting release in A Shadow in Time, partly a tribute to David Bowie, where the producer again used his tape manipulation techniques to weave together an unearthly piece. Using tapes of his earlier work, the artist displayed their gradual deterioration as they were played time after time, being passed through the tape head. It was not just that The Disintegration Loops featured so many of the key elements of Basinski’s sonic identity: the obsession with the temporal dimension, the themes of memory and melancholic essence of life, but it was the way he approached the record. ![]() William Basinski has been involved in the experimental music scene for about 40 years now, but it was his series of releases entitled The Disintegration Loops that really propelled him to the peak of the mountain.
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