William Basinski is a Los Angeles–based avant-garde composer and sound artist renowned for his pioneering work in ambient music, soundscapes, and tape-loop compositions. Born in 1958, he has spent decades exploring the ephemeral nature of sound, memory, and decay. Basinski’s most acclaimed project, The Disintegration Loops (2002–03), is a four-album series that captures the sounds of magnetic tape loops deteriorating as they are played again and again; Basinski conceived the work as an elegiac response to the events of September 11, 2001.
Vibrations of the Pacific