William Basinski will be collaborating with Temporary Residence Ltd. to commemorate the 10-year anniversary, and induction into the National September 11 Memorial Museum, of The Disintegration Loops on September 11, 2012. The avant-garde composer had originally created The Disintegration Loops while trying to preserve a box of his old ambient tape loops by transferring them to digital recordings. During this process, the tape machine’s recording head magnetic material began to flake off, meaning the sound was literally disintegrating as the recording went on. The work was originally finished September 10th, 2001 and debuted at a rooftop party that happened to coincide with the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, adopting new significance to the recordings as a eulogy to pre-9/11 New York.
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