Signal-To-Noise: The Sounds of Decay | New Sounds | New Sounds - 0 views
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john roach on 24 Nov 21"Listen to the sounds of deterioration and decay as the sound is transformed into something else for this episode. Hear Brooklyn composer William Basinski and a portion of his mammoth work, "Disintegration Loops" - a project based on very old tape loops from the 1980's. The tape itself was disintegrating, and tape gunk would come off on the playback head, but Basinski allowed the loops to play continuously while he recorded them digitally, capturing the process of the music's demise. "