A new composition featuring a recently discovered tape loop melody from the earliest piano and tape experiments, c. 1979. 'The main loop in this piece is one of the original piano and tape experiments from my early days as a composer. A few of the derivative piano variations have been released: 'A Red Score in Tile,' 'Chrome Primitive,' some of the 'Melancholia' pieces. Some are still to come in the archival series. This theme, a melody made up of one of the most common chord changes in western music, to m...   [ read more ]

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Re-issue after 10 years (first issue on CD), originally released in limited edition LP in 1997 on Noton. Full length CD with bonus track not on original LP. The works on Shortwavemusic resulted from a series of experiments in 1982 using lo-fi technology to extract sounds from the airwaves and weave them into musical tapestries. Using two reel-to-reel decks from the '60s, a radio and a shortwave radio, Basinski recorded samples of music from the radio, edited the tape into loops of varying lengths, and slow...   [ read more ]

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"Comprised of one 44 minute track, Variation #9 'Pantelleria,' this archival release is one of my all-time favorites of the piano and tape variations from the early eighties. Using a lilting piano melody on a small loop, the requisite magic happened in the recording process when this particular loop would randomly slip along the play head revealing an extraordinary counterpoint (in reverse) on the other side of the tape. To me, this piece evokes a lazy Arcandian summer idyll, and will always remind me of a...   [ read more ]

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