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William Basinski

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William Basinski (Houston, 1958), a New York-based classically-trained clarinetist and saxophonist, specializes in compositions for loops and drones. He began experimenting with compositions for piano and tape that created a melancholy ambience via looped and overdubbed melodies with Variations - A Movement in Chrome Primitive (1980), released on Variations - A Movement in Chrome Primitive (Durtro, 2002 - Die Stadt, 2004), and A Red Score in Tile (1979), released on A Red Score in Tile (3 Poplars, 2003).

Top songs

  1. Melancholia II
  2. Melancholia III
  3. Melancholia VI
  4. Melancholia I
  5. dlp 1.1
  6. Melancholia V
  7. 92982.3
  8. dlp 2.1
  9. Melancholia XIII
  10. Mono No Aware 1.2
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  1. dlp 1.1.1
  2. dlp 1.3
  3. Melancholia X
  4. Melancholia XI
  5. Melancholia IV
  6. Melancholia VII
  7. Disintegration Loops (1.1 Excerpt I)
  8. Melancholia IX
  9. Melancholia VIII
  10. Melancholia XII
  11. Melancholia XIV
  12. Mono No Aware 1.1
  13. d|p 1.1
  14. For Whom the Bell Tolls
  15. 92982.1
  16. The Wheel of Fortune
  17. Paradise Lost
  18. dlp 1.1.2
  19. O, My Daughter, O, My Sorrow
  20. dlp 3
  21. Tear Vial
  22. dlp 2.2
  23. 92982.2
  24. d|p 2.1
  25. Mono No Aware 1.3
  26. dlp 1.1.3
  27. dlp 1.2
  28. 92982.4
  29. dlp 6
  30. Watermusic II
  31. dlp 4
  32. dlp 1.1.4
  33. For David Robert Jones
  34. dlp 1.1.5
  35. Please, This Shit Has Got To Stop
  36. dlp 5
  37. d|p 2.2
  38. d|p 3
  39. dlp 1.1.6
  40. Cascade
  41. Evening Scars
  42. dlp 1.1.7
  43. Watermusic
  44. El Camino Real
  45. Fin
  46. Mono No Aware 1.4
  47. Passio
  48. d|p 4
  49. dlp 1.1.8
  50. 4(E+D)4(ER=EPR)
  51. Selva Oscura 1.1
  52. Transfiguration
  53. Punch And Judy
  54. A Shadow In Time
  55. dlp 1.1.9
  56. Cobalt Pools
  57. dlp 2.1.1
  58. All These Too, I, I Love
  59. Silent Spring
  60. Selva Oscura 1.3
  61. Fringe Area
  62. Melancholia 1
  63. dlp 2.1.2
  64. . . . on reflection (one)
  65. Selva Oscura 1.2
  66. September 23rd - Excerpt 3
  67. Melancholia 5
  68. Selva Oscura 1.4
  69. Melancholia 10
  70. On Time Out of Time 1.1
  71. d|p 5
  72. . . . on reflection (three)
  73. The Garden of Brokenness
  74. Variation #9: Pantelleria
  75. Melancholia 11
  76. On a Frontier of Wires
  77. Melancholia 8
  78. On Time Out of Time 1.2
  79. d|p 6
  80. Melancholia 4
  81. On Time Out of Time 1.5
  82. Vivian & Ondine
  83. d|p 1.2
  84. On Time Out of Time 1.4
  85. d|p 1.3
  86. On Time Out of Time 1.3
  87. Variation IV
  88. Disintegration Loops (1.1 Excerpt II)
  89. Untitled
  90. Melancholia 6

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