# Celestial Frequencies  ## Metadata - Author: [[Francis Blagburn]] - Full Title: Celestial Frequencies - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: William Basinski makes slow, fragile ambient music from decaying tape loops and old synths. His work turns technological crackle into calm, meditative sound that reconnects listeners to real space. The Disintegration Loops after 9/11 brought him wide attention and showed how art can make us stop and grieve. - URL: https://crackmagazine.net/article/long-reads/william-basinski-celestial-frequencies/ ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > “I really started in the late 70s in San Francisco,” he tells me. “I was just getting some old tape decks and used tape at the Cancer shop dirt cheap, and seeing things like the Frippertronics illustration on the back of [Brian Eno’s ambient record] *Discreet Music*, showing two tape decks and the tape delay running into one and taking up on the other. I started making tape loops and I was getting results really quickly and so I thought ‘Wow! This is cool!’ and just kept going. I didn’t know then if I was composing or not, but I was playing around, painting with sound, making something out of nothing.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k74yv1bg6t0110vkwq3f33m5))