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William Basinski in shirt and tie, blue screen behind, gold table to the fore

William Basinski

William Basinski

What we wrote at the time:

Basinski is a musician, composer and auteur who has worked in experimental media for over twenty years. His compositional approach utilises forms of generative music technique similar to the working strategies of Brian Eno on his “Systems Series” works, focusing in on what at first seems to be very simple interactions between a restricted number of meticulously calculated and placed cycling motifs [tape loops slowly disintegrating, shortwave radio static], but which, over time interact and layer into a complex and delicate form of self-perpetuating music. Essentially improvising using nothing so much as the passage of time as his instrument, Basinski creates works of great melancholic depth and fragile beauty.

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William Basinski in shirt and tie, blue screen behind, gold table to the fore

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

William Basinski in shirt and tie, blue screen behind, equipment on a table

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

William Basinski in shirt and tie, blue screen behind, gauze covered table

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

William Basinski performing on stage at INSTAL 04 Arches Glasgow

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

William Basinski performing beneath ventilation ducts in Glasgow

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

William Basinski in shirt and tie, screen behind, golden table of gear

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

William Basinski sillouhetted against a screen during a performance

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

William Basinski in shirt and tie, blue screen behind, gold table to the fore

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

William Basinski in shirt and tie, blue screen behind, equipment on a table

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

William Basinski in shirt and tie, blue screen behind, gauze covered table

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

William Basinski performing on stage at INSTAL 04 Arches Glasgow

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

William Basinski performing beneath ventilation ducts in Glasgow

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

William Basinski in shirt and tie, screen behind, golden table of gear

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

William Basinski sillouhetted against a screen during a performance

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

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