William Basinski — The Disintegration Loops. 9/11 album brief history

Once upon a time, there was William Basinski, an avant-garde musician with a classical education, who could lead an orchestra and was not afraid of an experimental approach to music. In the last days of the summer of 2001, broke and almost evicted from a loft with a beautiful view of Manhattan, 43-year-old William began to digitise magnetic tapes of his old recordings and noticed that the magnetic tape had aged so much in 20 years that it began to crumble, forming small gaps in the music. As a true artist, Basinski saw something in this: the majestic minor orchestral music was disintegrating before his eyes, taking parts of memories into oblivion. All the beginning of autumn, all he and his friends did was listen to the 5-hour digital version.