The electronic field is protagonist also in the seventh piece: a loud rumble comes and goes behind the limping piano phrase.Ī Red Score in Tile (1979), released on A Red Score in Tile (3 Poplars, 2003) was even more austere. The fifth is the one that "disintegrates": its humble piano loop interacts with a field of electronic noise and eventually succumbs to it. Each is a simple loop with no static noise: a muffled piano sonata (the first), a frenzied minimalist pattern (the second), a music-box refrain (the third). The "movement" actually consists of eight "movements". There he fell under the influence of John Cage, Steve Reich, and Brian Eno.īasinski began by experimenting with compositions for piano and tape that created a melancholy ambience via looped and overdubbed melodies,įor example, Variations - A Movement in Chrome Primitive (1980), released on Variations - A Movement in Chrome Primitive (Durtro, 2002 - Die Stadt, 2004). Moved to San Francisco in 1978 with his partner, the artist James Elaine. Of the new wave and punk-rock of the late 1970s, William Basinski (Houston, 1958), raised in Dallas,Ī classically-trained clarinetist and saxophonist, and a fan
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