Close enough to our houses or friends houses or favorite places in the mountains that we watch slowly be eaten by a red line as the Facebook group updates the fire perimeter. Because if you aren’t talking about the smoke, it’s because a fire has come close enough to talk about that instead. He immediately realized that he was recording the life and death of a melody, as it devolved, and distorted, and disappeared.
I have not had a conversation in over a month that didn’t at least touch on the smoke. The loop would start out fully-formed but as it ran through the machine over and over and over, bits of tape peeled off and the sound morphed in real time. William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops (9xLP, RM + 5xCD, RM + DVD + Box, Comp, Dlx, Ltd) Label: Temporary Residence Limited, 2062 Cat: TRR194. The old worn out magnetic tape began to slowly flake off as he digitized them. Fire has become its own season, largely ousting summer apart from a few weeks after the solstice. Both conversationally and to some degree physically. Where I live it has replaced the weather. But what he didn’t expect was that these short repetitive melodies and fragments of music would begin to change right there. The Disintegration Loops is a collection of four albums released in 20. While living in Brooklyn, he set up a tape machine, hooked it to a digital recorder and began recording these short loops, knowing that the tape would eventually deteriorate if left in storage. In 2001, William Basinski began digitizing his collection of analog tape loops.
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