Once a classical clarinet player who ‘wanted to be Bowie’, Basinski ended up creating a deeply moving elegy for 9/11 – despite controversial views on the atrocity
William Basinski has built an international career from his glacial meditations on time and decay, including The Disintegration Loops, which are regarded as perhaps the definitive artwork made about 9/11. To look at him, shirt open and hair slicked, Tommy Lee Jones handsome, he appears to have slowed his own mortality down along with his tape loops and samples.
Basinski was born in Texas in 1958, and says his earliest “really mystical, wonderful, magical” musical experiences came as a baby in Houston’s Saint Anne’s Church. We’re sitting in another church, St John on Bethnal Green, London, where Basinski has just played a set with fellow ambient composer Lawrence English – drifting, reverberant chords with the tiniest feather tickle of rhythm from a tape loop.
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