BIO

WILLIAM BASINSKI

William Basinski is a classically trained musician and
composer who has been working in experimental media
for over 25 years in NYC. His haunting and melancholy
soundscapes explore the temporal nature of life
resounding with the reverberations of memory and the
mystery of time. His epic 4-disc masterwork, The
Disintegration Loops received international critical
acclaim and was chosen as one of the top 50 albums of
2004 by Pitchfork Media. Art Forum selected The River,
his transcendental 2-disc shortwave music experiment
on Raster-Noton, Germany as one of the top ten albums
of 2003. Installations and films made in collaboration
with artist-filmmaker, James Elaine have been
presented internationally, most recently at Cite de la
Musique, Paris, and REDCAT at the Walt Disney Concert
Hall in Los Angeles for The Museum of Contemporary
Art’s VISUAL MUSIC Exhibition. Basinski’s new album,
the Garden of Brokenness, was released in January 2006
on 2062/USA and is distributed internationally.

Basinski’s works are distributed in Europe by Die
Stadt Musik, Germany , in the U.K. by Cargo
Records/UK, in Japan by Plop Distribution and in the
United States by Forced Exposure.

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