I just thought I'd take a break and write something down. When in high school I started to listen to a lot of ambient music, and Basinski was definitely one (among many others) who stuck with me a lot. It was a very confusing time for me back then (not that it's gotten any better, a bit more different) and me and my friends had went on a trip to a small city in my home country. It was winter and we had just finished some important exams, so we just wanted to get away and get high. I wasn't particularly fond of them, and I wasn't particularly fond of the mood weed came with at that time for me neither, but being lonely as I was I went anyway. It was the last night we were there, two of us were laying on a wooden floor of a very old house, we had just finished a movie, and another woke up, and it's just one of those moments that's very hard to describe but you remember so vividly. Cascade was on in the background, and I was just staring at the ceiling, while the two of them were talking about some bullshit things that we used to talk about, but I just remember laying there, feeling this existential dread, not knowing what the fuck I was doing and where the fuck I was and why, but I just had to sit there with myself, thinking about my place in this universe and accepting that fact, however unpleasant it may be. Years later I still get that feeling a lot, and the dread hasn't become any less confusing or painful, but I can certainly appreciate the fact that it's a strange feeling, but one that is not unnatural and is important to experience during our time on earth, and I appreciate the fact that people like Basinski exist out there and can help people generate these strange emotions and states which can help people discover more about themselves, and I think that what life is all about.
well stated here: "it's a strange feeling, but one that is not unnatural and is important to experience during our time on earth" I think few realize the essential life skill of just experiencing WHAT IS. you can give away all your energy fighting the unpleasant realities in life.
Basinski: "I wanted Cascade to become this crystalline organism like a star or a liquid crystal spaceship, a jellyfish traveling through the galaxy…" Now I've read that, I can't get the image out of my head. Perfect.
+and books were opened You dont? on the contrary, i feel methods of interstellar travel could vary depending on traveller, some beings choosing to pulse through it rather then, say travel at the speed of light (or much faster). also i think its just too easy to imagine a jellyfish that's usually pulsing through the deep, dark ocean, in the context of the deep dark universe.. it is for me while this is playing anyway aha
i'm reading your post while listening to this...and it's 4AM here too... kind of weird feeling ! I don't know why it's so hard to go to sleep....i always think sleeping is a waste of time, but i'm wasting my time each night watching pointless videos, listening to music and then i'm tired to death at 4AM....and i'm like "f***, i have to go to work in 4 hours...." and the next day i do exactly the same.... i'm tired all day long, but i can't go to sleep at night....
Hi, i am a Brazilian independent artist. I composed, mixed and made the cover of this album over a year, thinking about the sleep experience and the layers of consciousness. It is a 28 minute album with two songs. I wanna be heard by people who connect with ambient music. Basinski introduce me to it. (I am discovering ways to spread my art and my work. ) This is very special. It means a lot to me. Enjoy. czcams.com/video/Tp2P5S-txVI/video.html
Basinski's work always puts me in a nostalgic, wistful frame of mind. It's the soundtrack to my memories, even now being muddled and confused by the twists of time.
Not that I think anyone will read this, but I find that a pretty apt description considering much of Basinski’s art is created by taking and splicing old recordings on tapes and such that have been muddled and damaged by the twists of time as well
I believe that to fully enjoy and understand life, you have to experience every emotion and every feeling possible. Sadness, loneliness, happiness, love, they're all there to help you know who you are and how the world works. Even if it hurts sometimes, emotions have purpose.
These types of melodies help me feel connected to the universe. It’s like I know there’s a tribe out there that get “it” even if that “it” is different for all of us, its understood. Half the people I hang out with don’t even know I listen to this kind of music, it’s so deeply personal for me. Ambient music encapsulates nostalgia, movement within what feels like a safe zone, and hope. It helps me heal my wounds and think about possibilities, while being right in the now. It curbs my what is the point of all this thoughts. It helps me radically accept and understand that not all things even have a point. I honestly don’t know what I’d do with out this stuff. I usually get back to it when I feel down, or stuck, or even scared and it’s sacred to me. So yeah this felt good to write. Xo
@@thebigpecolaman for my privacy i did. This was a deeply personal thing for me to write. Despite what I do professionaly, it's not up to you to comment on my naivity, or my journey. But given this is what i set up myself up for, thank you for your commentary. It's not my job to fix or solve, it's my job to hold a space for the kids I work with. The adult experience is different, and tbh, your comment makes me not want to open up in general. so thank you for contributing to cancel culture.
thebigpecolaman In many ways much like the comments on these videos are the same, so too are humans. I also acknowledged this is a public forum, thus rendering myself vulnerable to comments like yours. I don’t personally love the music you post, but I would never classify ones that connect to any genre as “cheap” or the journey of feeling connected to a specific genre as “naive”. We’re all out here trying to be happy, at peace, and smiling wherever we can. I love ambient music. Let me live lol. You’re so judgy!
It's like floating in an unknown misty blurred atmosphere of melancholia and sadness. Somehow awaiting and hoping for your love to finally come. It will probably not happen and you are painfully aware of it. It's cold out here, it hurts but you can't get out of it. You don't want to. And so you float and drown in this white cascade of broken dreams and thoughts.
Have slept to this for many nights and it ethes more into my heart each night. 1 of the masters , wouldn't be doin this music without him as a huge pillar...🖤
Last night, a few friends & I listened to this, laying on the floor, with a soft blue light painting the room. It was a magical moment. It somehow reminded of my very existence. I couldn't be more grateful for ambient music
In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill. You promised you'd take me there again someday, But you never did. Well I'm alone there now... In our 'special place'... Waiting for you...
No other song reminds me of watching snowfall quite like this one. Just know that the second it starts snowing in the UK this year, I'll have this one on a loop.
The future is being accomplished now, If I raise my hand a little, All five beams of light will stay with you. Each day I used my collar bones For shoring up the past, as though with timber, I measured time with geodetic chains And marched across it, as though it were the Urals. -Arseny Tarkovsky
That's Andreis father right? Man what a crossover Basinski-Tarkovsky would have been. Two artists living in two different ages, but somehow they both resonate with me in the same vein a lot.
@@pleiades250 It's known as a 'transcendental' poem; it doesn't have a specific meaning, but conveys an 'opening of possibilities'; mundane things becoming glorious, emotions and feelings miraculously becoming objects, transcending the limits of time, space, and logic.
This reminds me of those cloudy winter mornings on Fridays that landed on a Consejo Técnico (a day that happens once a month where we basically get a Friday off school because teachers in every school in Mexico get together in their respective schools for some sort of school meeting) when my parents and siblings would just stay in our beds watching TV (we share a room) and it was really cozy
One of his finest works yet, I think. Basinski has always been very near and dear to my heart, tugging my heart strings through many deaths and a lot of trauma. It's so odd to think that these works are simply just tape looping and decaying, with textures added over the top in principle, but this seemingly simple art form has the power to bring you to tears and think deeply on the past. Thank you, William. You've done my life a great service.
+Forrest Hooker Basinski is dear to me too.. as of recently I've started suffering from very intense dissociation and anxiety problems.. finding music like this helps me so much. What other artists would you recommend? I don't want to hear anything else other than ambient soundscapes, Basinski, Robert Rich, Tim Hecker, ben frost, Thomas koner.
NGC_1277 dig through some old Brian Eno, in particular "An Ending". Aphex Twin also put out some very relaxing ambient stuff, listen to "Rhubarb" off of his Ambient Works album. While not as... Deep, i would say, Tycho makes some really great spacey tracks for just listening to for awhile. Bibio also makes some stuff similar in the vein of Tycho.
NGC_1277 also, good luck on your anxiety. Music along these lines always helped me through my issues, particularly through my suicidal stage. Keep pushing, and keep listening. :)
I feel like crying, but the tears are not coming out. I have failed myself again. It's a huge fault in my personality. I keep failing myself even after I am given several chances. I am constantly building myself back up just to tear everything that i am building in one day. Its like I've been stuck in the same spot for the past 4 years- statoinary like a rock, only a rock may move from a gust of wind. I am not progressing in anything even though I have everything between my hands. One day it will be too late to change anything and that day can be any day from now.
Progress can happen in many ways, and it often goes unnoticed, especially during moments where you feel like you've regressed. Remember that, in life, lost progress is rarely the same as being reset to square one. All the time you spent between the two low moments counted for something, and will continue to count as you resume making progress once again.
I love this. I can feel the subtle fluctuations in the arrangement. I can sense what Basinski was going for. This reminds me of sitting on the rocks by the water at the darkest point of the evening. The monotony of the fog horn in the distance. the droning wah, wah, wah. The systematic repetition of the warning light above my head. The signal to the unwary crew that rocks are in the distance. The tide now at the highest point. I can sense it gently ebbing against the rocks. There isn't a storm. The ebb isn't a thrash. There is no violence. Just the monotony of flowing water. Yet. Like a stream is never thought to be the same in consecutive seconds passing. There is always something different beside me. The little shifts in how the water moves against the rocks on which I sit. Perhaps a patter and slosh and listless movement. There is repetition and diversity occurring all around me at once. It is both comforting and thoughtful, and exciting. This is what the arrangement reminds me of. I get it. It takes a bit to get, but I caught the cascade. Top notch arrangement.
Caribou Blend i felt this. you are a poet, matching the music to imagery so exact and beautiful in a haunting way. just one image out of many that i can clearly see and feel throughout this piece.
I think the artist wasn't going for this or that. We truly will never know what he was going for, there is a million possibilities, and all those possibilities are locked in the artists head. We cant read the artists mind, all we can do is interpret. So maybe the image it paints for you is water on rocks and what not,, for others it tells different stories. Music never only stands for a single thing. Music stands for music, that's why its so mysterious and wonderful.
It definitely has a water quality to it. Like sound reflected off the waves or something. I just heard this 'song' on 89.9FM NY and Siri knew the tune!
I started crying when I thought about this emptiness I feel; dead friend, disconnected love. I put this song on just now hoping that maybe I can disappear too.
It's strange how it pulls on the strings of our emotions. Sadness nonetheless. It's an emotion that we'd like to stray away from, yet it's so beautiful.
Most people want to remain separate and ‘in control’. Most people want to keep dreaming that they are special, unique and separate. They want to remain separate more than they want to wake up to the perfect unity of an Unknown. (Adyashanti)
I really love this track. It's so soothing and cold, and it makes me imagine relaxing alone in a big fancy library at night in a leather chair near a lamp, gazing up at the night sky through the skylights.
I am listening to this for 20 minutes now and cannot get enough. It´s a similar feeling to this one in summertime when you have a day at the beach, when you just flow on the surface of the water, not moving and the body is carried away. You look into the blue sky and sometimes you catch the top of green trees....your ears are under water, you cannot hear anything-and if you do catch a whisper and you know someone is calling your name and is trying to ask for your attention you are numb...
Exactly what I was thinking. I love the Silent Hill atmosphere. And I love it when I find places like this, outside the game, that have that same eerie melancholy about them. It's like finding bonus tracks out in the wild :) It expands the Silent Hill world for me, further than the game and its soundtrack could actually go itself.
Walking on a deserted beach at night looking at the night sky's twinkling stars. Love this loop with its echoing piano ebbing and flowing like waves lapping against the shore of eternity.Sounds like Erik Satie in an alternative dimension.I wonder if William has a complete piece of music that this loop was lifted from?🤔
@@holysmokes4493 Yeah something like this. Winter. Middle of the night maybe 2 AM. A dozen strangers seek refuge in the old farmhouse. They are all wearing heavy coats. Standing around in the cold dark night. No fire. No heat. Gathering together for warmth. No light save for the moon. Moonlight peeks cautiously through the carpentry occasionally illuminating our breath. There is a sinister quality in the air. Everyone had this feeling. We just stood there. Waiting. Then a voice cries outside. It's a young distressed woman in the distance. Like a worried parent the party ventures slowly outside without a word. We just knew something was wrong. That's it. Just this feeling of dread. Impending doom.
@@mjc71189 That's quite depressing. I've had a similarly averse reaction to some ambient music pieces out there so I asked partly out of curiosity and partly out of a desire for validation, haha. Thanks for sharing and remembering after all this time.
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William Basinski has for a long time made a sub-genre in ambient music which started with the Disintegration Tapes and continues, via Variations For Piano & Tape, to this. Yet through the magic of his recording process it supercedes pigeonholing and becomes not-ambient, just a different kind of musical experience. I wish people would put on his records and listen to them with the willingness that they have to stream a film on Netflix, because the process is enriching. I'm guilty of this too. I spend too much time doing shit and watching shit when I could be listening to this.
What I like about this guys music is the duality of the music itself and the man. He’s like this cheery & colorful cosmopolitan gay guy and he makes the most somber morose music imaginable.
Yes, there is a monotony to it but that monotony, as I realized after listening to it for awhile, could be a representation of the rhythmic, frequent, lapping of little waves on a shore. When I focused on that visual the music suddenly became sublime and I felt more at peace for a time.
some notes, chords and structures give goose bumps .. I never understood why... Someone said its Nostalgia, but thats not it. Im hearing this for the first time (these tiny bits of broken piano dancing on a pond of sounds) ... Que Bon !!
Nostalgia for everything that has ever existed in the entire Universe, because you've been all of it, the whole time. And you always will be. You're the sun rising and the person watching it rise. You are the water bearer. And I love you. Breakups can be an extreme difficulty, sadness, despair, hopelessness unprecedented. But, in time, you find happiness and faith in yourself again, then create and feel with someone new. The big bang was a break-up. The relationship that existed before it was a thing of beauty, a powerful unit, immovable by any force except the one that wears the mask of time. The sadness of the breakup is that it wasn't a choice. But my are there all the choices in the Universe to choose from for the rest of eternity.. You can form units of energy with the infinite, infinitely. Yet, none, will be exactly like the first.
@@AudioPervert1 hey it's all speculation, I know as much as anyone else :) I was working through creative writing prompts and exercises while listening to music and I guess a few of my comments aren't well thought out or executed
@@dannielle5476 hi ... I was super tired last night when reading your comment. It's all good... Flow of consciousness they say? My first comment was more about the effect of memory and nostalgia, without which a lot of music (from the past) would not have much relevance.
This gives me flashbacks to when my parents took me to church at five years old and I noticed how all the windows had this privacy film that made it a little too blurry to see clearly outside. It was raining and I just kept staring at the droplets of blurred water impacting the window
Music is wonderful for this connection. Basinski made you remember this moment because he captured something like it, something it had been like to be in that moment for you. Reflected in such wonderfully beautiful harmony
Allow me to inhabit the space between your hands, Twice broken diamond, Has anyone ever told you the song the crickets wrote for you? Allow me to populate your pupils in low light environments, Salt water wave spray, Has the moon sent you any fan mail? Allow me to nestle in the timing of your laughter, Evergreen pot of life, Have you danced the trees into stillness? Allow me to relocate to the breath you held, Gust of wind through the willows, Have you returned the owl her silent strike? Allow me to live in the locks of your hair, Cascade of brown shade, Have you tasted the inside of my existence?
+Z LA Just had the exact same experience twelve minutes in when my brain hemispheres said, "Okay, we've decided that, despite all impressions to the contrary, these sounds are not our internal workings but are actually coming from outside the cranium somewhere."
the interesting thing is that from what i think i can hear is that each time the loop retriggers/repeats there is like either a delay or slight variation in timing, so that it is more fluid and slightly flexible, It might have to to with his 'method' of using two tape machines playing of one another, and what i guess is that maybe they retrigger each other depending on when their delay effects end or start or something like that. Either way there is an organic quality, analog perhaps because if this was digital then the loops would be alot of obvious where they trigger, it would be quantized. So there seems to be a slight randomness factor that William Basinski is controlling during the recording of this 40min set.
Could it be? Among the darkness I sank myself into Your flare I stare Could it be? Your mere presence Blessing upon tired heart I revive Could it be? Candle light To drive away the night Moonlit wit to warm me up Inside Could it be? Will you drive away the ghosts? Will you be the promise broken? Could it be? Perhaps I won't rush Again I'll let it be If it'll be It'll be
Stripped from flesh our souls begin to rest on an infinite sheet of light, like a feather falling to the ground we watch memories of our past circling and twirling on a golden theatre film reel. Of who we were and what we became the cold breath of death still lingers, imprinted in the Aether until we rejoin again in the next life.
Just stumbled on this, I actually compose music like this for my own delectation on my modular synth. Very much to my taste. As to why I just discovered it, I rarely go hunting for other artists, so I'm pleasantly surprised, thank you.
This song gets to me, it makes me feel weary and almost dreadful. I always end up feeling a bit sluggish and at the same time existential. I listened to it with my friend and he said the exact same thing. Good stuff basinski, music really gets to ya.
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Reminds me of waking up on the sofa at 4am in front of a DVD menu that has been looping for hours
Hah strange but I agree.
I really liked that image.
wow. that mental image paired well with the exact inexplicable feeling this album gives me.
Holy shit, I agree that the image was beautiful, but also in a way kind of sad.
yeah for something like eternal sunshine
I just thought I'd take a break and write something down. When in high school I started to listen to a lot of ambient music, and Basinski was definitely one (among many others) who stuck with me a lot. It was a very confusing time for me back then (not that it's gotten any better, a bit more different) and me and my friends had went on a trip to a small city in my home country. It was winter and we had just finished some important exams, so we just wanted to get away and get high. I wasn't particularly fond of them, and I wasn't particularly fond of the mood weed came with at that time for me neither, but being lonely as I was I went anyway. It was the last night we were there, two of us were laying on a wooden floor of a very old house, we had just finished a movie, and another woke up, and it's just one of those moments that's very hard to describe but you remember so vividly. Cascade was on in the background, and I was just staring at the ceiling, while the two of them were talking about some bullshit things that we used to talk about, but I just remember laying there, feeling this existential dread, not knowing what the fuck I was doing and where the fuck I was and why, but I just had to sit there with myself, thinking about my place in this universe and accepting that fact, however unpleasant it may be. Years later I still get that feeling a lot, and the dread hasn't become any less confusing or painful, but I can certainly appreciate the fact that it's a strange feeling, but one that is not unnatural and is important to experience during our time on earth, and I appreciate the fact that people like Basinski exist out there and can help people generate these strange emotions and states which can help people discover more about themselves, and I think that what life is all about.
well stated here: "it's a strange feeling, but one that is not unnatural and is important to experience during our time on earth" I think few realize the essential life skill of just experiencing WHAT IS. you can give away all your energy fighting the unpleasant realities in life.
@@fatalexcerpts ty
"Get away and get high." How foolish.
@@josiahprofenno4136 have u never been a teenager
@iX
I am one, and I find nothing of it alluring.
Basinski: "I wanted Cascade to become this crystalline organism like a star or a liquid crystal spaceship, a jellyfish traveling through the galaxy…"
Now I've read that, I can't get the image out of my head. Perfect.
Thomas W I do not perceive that the propulsion system of a jellyfish is conducive to interstellar travel. hmph
No way, no shit. The waves
+Thomas W yeah, I can smell it
+and books were opened You didn't watch enough Star Trek: TNG when you were younger ;)
+and books were opened You dont? on the contrary, i feel methods of interstellar travel could vary depending on traveller, some beings choosing to pulse through it rather then, say travel at the speed of light (or much faster).
also i think its just too easy to imagine a jellyfish that's usually pulsing through the deep, dark ocean, in the context of the deep dark universe.. it is for me while this is playing anyway aha
Basinski found the sweet spot of existence. What an artist.
BLASPHEMOUS!!!!!
I feel too lonely and brokenhearted and I'm listening to this at 4AM
hang in there bud. 👋
Anxiety and disturbia puts me to sleep. Keep your head up.
i'm reading your post while listening to this...and it's 4AM here too... kind of weird feeling ! I don't know why it's so hard to go to sleep....i always think sleeping is a waste of time, but i'm wasting my time each night watching pointless videos, listening to music and then i'm tired to death at 4AM....and i'm like "f***, i have to go to work in 4 hours...." and the next day i do exactly the same.... i'm tired all day long, but i can't go to sleep at night....
comment sections on songs like this are always nice to read through
Ah....the exquisite pain of being alive.
When you and the boys pass the realm of physical existance
A bag of shallots is an alternate account of mine that I forgot the password of so it's just sitting there, eternally.
@@ambrosia3907 damn, dawg.
@@ambrosia3907 damn
@@ambrosia3907 lmao it happened to me too one time
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I'm digging the open mic here in the comments section. I'm surprised someone isn't here serving drinks.
LMAO probably the best comment here
it's not only an open mic, man. first come, first served - take care of yourself.
@@385dead merry Christmas yah filthy animal
I have kombucha or koolaid
@@rihpsss1665 can you grab me some pineapple juice from the fridge?
When life is not your priority, one should listen to this. Simply one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard.
im shear this feeling2
are you talking about suicide?
try GY!BE then
Hi, i am a Brazilian independent artist.
I composed, mixed and made the cover of
this album over a year, thinking about
the sleep experience and the layers of consciousness.
It is a 28 minute album with two songs.
I wanna be heard by people who connect
with ambient music. Basinski introduce me to it.
(I am discovering ways to spread my art and my work.
)
This is very special. It means a lot to me.
Enjoy.
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Basinski's work always puts me in a nostalgic, wistful frame of mind. It's the soundtrack to my memories, even now being muddled and confused by the twists of time.
I've got the same feeling, whenever I listen to his music.
Not that I think anyone will read this, but I find that a pretty apt description considering much of Basinski’s art is created by taking and splicing old recordings on tapes and such that have been muddled and damaged by the twists of time as well
by far my favourite basinski, lost my marbles a few times to this masterpiece. excellent choice during psychotic episodes
Anxiety relief for me
I believe that to fully enjoy and understand life, you have to experience every emotion and every feeling possible. Sadness, loneliness, happiness, love, they're all there to help you know who you are and how the world works. Even if it hurts sometimes, emotions have purpose.
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@@brandonpiper2099 fortnite balls
This is my favorite piece of music for the last 5 years.
@@thebigpecolaman 🙏🙏amen
These types of melodies help me feel connected to the universe. It’s like I know there’s a tribe out there that get “it” even if that “it” is different for all of us, its understood. Half the people I hang out with don’t even know I listen to this kind of music, it’s so deeply personal for me. Ambient music encapsulates nostalgia, movement within what feels like a safe zone, and hope. It helps me heal my wounds and think about possibilities, while being right in the now. It curbs my what is the point of all this thoughts. It helps me radically accept and understand that not all things even have a point. I honestly don’t know what I’d do with out this stuff. I usually get back to it when I feel down, or stuck, or even scared and it’s sacred to me. So yeah this felt good to write. Xo
@@thebigpecolaman why do you ask?
@@thebigpecolaman for my privacy i did. This was a deeply personal thing for me to write. Despite what I do professionaly, it's not up to you to comment on my naivity, or my journey. But given this is what i set up myself up for, thank you for your commentary. It's not my job to fix or solve, it's my job to hold a space for the kids I work with. The adult experience is different, and tbh, your comment makes me not want to open up in general. so thank you for contributing to cancel culture.
thebigpecolaman In many ways much like the comments on these videos are the same, so too are humans. I also acknowledged this is a public forum, thus rendering myself vulnerable to comments like yours. I don’t personally love the music you post, but I would never classify ones that connect to any genre as “cheap” or the journey of feeling connected to a specific genre as “naive”. We’re all out here trying to be happy, at peace, and smiling wherever we can. I love ambient music. Let me live lol. You’re so judgy!
thebigpecolaman awww have a good day okay
thebigpecolaman haha it was good for me too, all learning lol. Take care
All of the comments on here are so damn beautiful to read
I can't begin to describe how timeless and beautiful this piece is.
this tastes like winter
you're right
I hope that was supposed to be humour.
SelfReferencingName No. Why?
Henrique Florsheim That was too shit to be serious.
SelfReferencingName ok
Feels like falling asleep in front of a windowpane on a rainy day.
and waking up in the same time that your favorite cartoon is passing on TV
Mine is frosted over, with snowflakes collecting on the mullions. We're the lucky ones.
A sad sea lapping morosely upon a desolate shore. Dense fog. Life hasn't begun here yet.
It's like floating in an unknown misty blurred atmosphere of melancholia and sadness. Somehow awaiting and hoping for your love to finally come. It will probably not happen and you are painfully aware of it. It's cold out here, it hurts but you can't get out of it. You don't want to. And so you float and drown in this white cascade of broken dreams and thoughts.
This song feels like the lost memories of summers gone by .
:/ im wasting my summer right now, last summer was such a blast.
it’s like someone’s here with me. someone to comfort me so i don’t feel so alone.
Have slept to this for many nights and it ethes more into my heart each night. 1 of the masters , wouldn't be doin this music without him as a huge pillar...🖤
can't stop myself from crying anytime i play this piece. it's so painful in its essence.
Last night, a few friends & I listened to this, laying on the floor, with a soft blue light painting the room. It was a magical moment. It somehow reminded of my very existence. I couldn't be more grateful for ambient music
gay as fuck
its fine to have gay moments bro
but still
@@thefedecaro Wish I could be this gay
Dafuq are these replies
reminds me of the railway in front of me near the church that rang the bells at noon, more than 45 years ago...
In my restless dreams, I see that town.
Silent Hill.
You promised you'd take me there again someday,
But you never did.
Well I'm alone there now...
In our 'special place'...
Waiting for you...
*chills* (that fucking game)
Perfect
No other song reminds me of watching snowfall quite like this one. Just know that the second it starts snowing in the UK this year, I'll have this one on a loop.
I’ve found that Tim Hecker’s “Sketch 7” also encapsulates that same feeling, at least for me!
The future is being accomplished now,
If I raise my hand a little,
All five beams of light will stay with you.
Each day I used my collar bones
For shoring up the past, as though with timber,
I measured time with geodetic chains
And marched across it, as though it were the Urals.
-Arseny Tarkovsky
Wow, that's a lovely poem. Thanks for sharing.
That's Andreis father right? Man what a crossover Basinski-Tarkovsky would have been. Two artists living in two different ages, but somehow they both resonate with me in the same vein a lot.
@@govegan6682 yep, they both have a similar vibe
ah, can someone explain this poem? it sounds pretty but i'm just awful at feeling and understanding poetry
@@pleiades250 It's known as a 'transcendental' poem; it doesn't have a specific meaning, but conveys an 'opening of possibilities'; mundane things becoming glorious, emotions and feelings miraculously becoming objects, transcending the limits of time, space, and logic.
This one reminds me of my beloved, beloved Baltic Sea and cliffs. I could stare at the sea for hours. I love it.
This reminds me of those cloudy winter mornings on Fridays that landed on a Consejo Técnico (a day that happens once a month where we basically get a Friday off school because teachers in every school in Mexico get together in their respective schools for some sort of school meeting) when my parents and siblings would just stay in our beds watching TV (we share a room) and it was really cozy
One of the best things that Basinski has ever done. I could listen to this all day. It's so simple but yet so beautiful.
One of his finest works yet, I think.
Basinski has always been very near and dear to my heart, tugging my heart strings through many deaths and a lot of trauma. It's so odd to think that these works are simply just tape looping and decaying, with textures added over the top in principle, but this seemingly simple art form has the power to bring you to tears and think deeply on the past.
Thank you, William. You've done my life a great service.
+Forrest Hooker
when my grandmother was in hospice, I spoke to her while this song was playing. I had it on a loop.
+Ster res I'm so sorry to hear that about your grandmother. My well wishes are with you, friend.
+Forrest Hooker Basinski is dear to me too.. as of recently I've started suffering from very intense dissociation and anxiety problems.. finding music like this helps me so much.
What other artists would you recommend? I don't want to hear anything else other than ambient soundscapes, Basinski, Robert Rich, Tim Hecker, ben frost, Thomas koner.
NGC_1277 dig through some old Brian Eno, in particular "An Ending". Aphex Twin also put out some very relaxing ambient stuff, listen to "Rhubarb" off of his Ambient Works album. While not as... Deep, i would say, Tycho makes some really great spacey tracks for just listening to for awhile. Bibio also makes some stuff similar in the vein of Tycho.
NGC_1277 also, good luck on your anxiety. Music along these lines always helped me through my issues, particularly through my suicidal stage. Keep pushing, and keep listening. :)
I feel like crying, but the tears are not coming out. I have failed myself again. It's a huge fault in my personality. I keep failing myself even after I am given several chances. I am constantly building myself back up just to tear everything that i am building in one day. Its like I've been stuck in the same spot for the past 4 years- statoinary like a rock, only a rock may move from a gust of wind. I am not progressing in anything even though I have everything between my hands. One day it will be too late to change anything and that day can be any day from now.
Progress can happen in many ways, and it often goes unnoticed, especially during moments where you feel like you've regressed. Remember that, in life, lost progress is rarely the same as being reset to square one. All the time you spent between the two low moments counted for something, and will continue to count as you resume making progress once again.
I love this. I can feel the subtle fluctuations in the arrangement. I can sense what Basinski was going for. This reminds me of sitting on the rocks by the water at the darkest point of the evening. The monotony of the fog horn in the distance. the droning wah, wah, wah. The systematic repetition of the warning light above my head. The signal to the unwary crew that rocks are in the distance. The tide now at the highest point. I can sense it gently ebbing against the rocks. There isn't a storm. The ebb isn't a thrash. There is no violence. Just the monotony of flowing water. Yet. Like a stream is never thought to be the same in consecutive seconds passing. There is always something different beside me. The little shifts in how the water moves against the rocks on which I sit. Perhaps a patter and slosh and listless movement. There is repetition and diversity occurring all around me at once. It is both comforting and thoughtful, and exciting.
This is what the arrangement reminds me of. I get it. It takes a bit to get, but I caught the cascade.
Top notch arrangement.
Caribou Blend i felt this. you are a poet, matching the music to imagery so exact and beautiful in a haunting way. just one image out of many that i can clearly see and feel throughout this piece.
to me it's like running the same empty scene through your head, just that scene, and it's echoes of what came before.
All i can get from this..
Is lonelieness.
I think the artist wasn't going for this or that. We truly will never know what he was going for, there is a million possibilities, and all those possibilities are locked in the artists head. We cant read the artists mind, all we can do is interpret. So maybe the image it paints for you is water on rocks and what not,, for others it tells different stories. Music never only stands for a single thing. Music stands for music, that's why its so mysterious and wonderful.
I'll umpyapah ya dogs it's fuckn water Lappin and shit like Lappin some dick down at tha cross ya dogs
Listen to this while scuba diving, look up at the surface, look at the life around you, hidden from us, protected from us by the ocean.
can you listen to music when scuba diving?!
Not with that attitude you can't!
I meant I would love to! sounds like a mind-blowingly cinematic experience
I fell safe from Twitter here
It definitely has a water quality to it. Like sound reflected off the waves or something. I just heard this 'song' on 89.9FM NY and Siri knew the tune!
... a fragment of memory that floats and you do not know what it is ...
The length of these ambient tracks are new to me, but it makes it sound more powerful. I can feel it.
Listening while grading papers on a rainy fall afternoon...makes the grading tolerable!
i could listen to this all day, and it's like 2 chords being played over and over again lol. Genius looping.
the sound of snow falling
why does this remind me something that i had forgotten.....but still can't fully remember.
My favorite loop 😊
I started crying when I thought about this emptiness I feel; dead friend, disconnected love.
I put this song on just now hoping that maybe I can disappear too.
Christopher Reid right with you brother. Just wish I could disappear forever without causing any grief or trauma to those I know.
Happymealchiz
I wish I could disappear too. But I do worry about the grief it would cause.
Disappear from the whole material world for these "short" 40 minutes...
Hey mate, you still alive?
@@aleksila Hehe, yeah I made it! Doing pretty good these days.
Walking alone, on the surface of a new world.
This is so beautiful, but my soul drops the bottom of a well of sadness whenever I hear this
It's strange how it pulls on the strings of our emotions. Sadness nonetheless. It's an emotion that we'd like to stray away from, yet it's so beautiful.
Since you can see it, look up.
Most people want to remain separate and ‘in control’. Most people want to keep dreaming that they are special, unique and separate. They want to remain separate more than they want to wake up to the perfect unity of an Unknown. (Adyashanti)
I really love this track. It's so soothing and cold, and it makes me
imagine relaxing alone in a big fancy library at night in a leather
chair near a lamp, gazing up at the night sky through the skylights.
I'm there with you with my favorite bottle of wine.
One of the most simple yet beautiful pieces of art ever to be created.
I am listening to this for 20 minutes now and cannot get enough. It´s a similar feeling to this one in summertime when you have a day at the beach, when you just flow on the surface of the water, not moving and the body is carried away. You look into the blue sky and sometimes you catch the top of green trees....your ears are under water, you cannot hear anything-and if you do catch a whisper and you know someone is calling your name and is trying to ask for your attention you are numb...
Atoms and stars dance in perfect balance
The universe a hall,
4 dimensions sealed like a snowglobe
art for an unknown beholder
This reminds me so much of Silent Hill. Very surreal with a hint of unease.
Exactly what I was thinking.
I love the Silent Hill atmosphere. And I love it when I find places like this, outside the game, that have that same eerie melancholy about them. It's like finding bonus tracks out in the wild :) It expands the Silent Hill world for me, further than the game and its soundtrack could actually go itself.
Walking on a deserted beach at night looking at the night sky's twinkling stars. Love this loop with its echoing piano ebbing and flowing like waves lapping against the shore of eternity.Sounds like Erik Satie in an alternative dimension.I wonder if William has a complete piece of music that this loop was lifted from?🤔
YES! I HEARD THIS ON N.P.R. DRIVING THRU WEST VIRGINIA LAST YEAR!!!!!!!!! FUCKING LOVE IT!!!!!!
This music takes me away from the hurt i'm feeling. Takes me away from the reality of the hurt and the hurt of reality
Ive just discovered, or may I say..been cosmically captivated by this soul saving magic...Beyond words
I fell to sleep with this on. I had a nightmare. It was dark. I felt deep sadness.
A bit untimely but do you remember the dream you had? What it was about and stuff?
@@holysmokes4493
Yeah something like this.
Winter. Middle of the night maybe 2 AM. A dozen strangers seek refuge in the old farmhouse. They are all wearing heavy coats. Standing around in the cold dark night. No fire. No heat. Gathering together for warmth. No light save for the moon. Moonlight peeks cautiously through the carpentry occasionally illuminating our breath. There is a sinister quality in the air. Everyone had this feeling. We just stood there. Waiting. Then a voice cries outside. It's a young distressed woman in the distance. Like a worried parent the party ventures slowly outside without a word. We just knew something was wrong. That's it. Just this feeling of dread. Impending doom.
@@mjc71189 That's quite depressing. I've had a similarly averse reaction to some ambient music pieces out there so I asked partly out of curiosity and partly out of a desire for validation, haha. Thanks for sharing and remembering after all this time.
@Saurav Sharma
"It's called life, now sit down."
@Saurav SharmaI had the vague hope that you would understand the reference.
sometimes you just need to take a deep breath and clear your mind to set things on track again, this music always help me on this! thx William
The problem is that people confuse art with entertainment
This is such a brilliant and beautiful sentence, thank you! Would love to use it as a quote~ 🙏💜
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@Def Poet MC Ahhhhhh nope, sorry man.
I swear.
When I close my eyes, this song made me see things that aren't there
my god
Drugs for your ears, man.
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Dear lovers of Basinski, please check out these tracks and tell me whether I am worthy of being his follower
William Basinski has for a long time made a sub-genre in ambient music which started with the Disintegration Tapes and continues, via Variations For Piano & Tape, to this. Yet through the magic of his recording process it supercedes pigeonholing and becomes not-ambient, just a different kind of musical experience.
I wish people would put on his records and listen to them with the willingness that they have to stream a film on Netflix, because the process is enriching. I'm guilty of this too. I spend too much time doing shit and watching shit when I could be listening to this.
The perfect thing about it is that everyone see their own moment and picture on this masterpiece!
I feel the water, that peace...
Our ability to endure and even love repetition is a weird thing. This tune owns me
perfect for watching snow come down....or imagining that. let it snow in your mind and you'll be happy.
Thank you ❤
this really hit me around 19:00 in with a true feeling of physical and mental calm.
Потрясающе!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is phenomenal
Victoria Hanson it is
The Disintegration Loops, which I discovered just a couple of weeks ago, brought me here.
What I like about this guys music is the duality of the music itself and the man. He’s like this cheery & colorful cosmopolitan gay guy and he makes the most somber morose music imaginable.
Definitely a piece of music you need to listen to at the right moment. But when the moment is right, its beauty becomes apparent
Yes, there is a monotony to it but that monotony, as I realized after listening to it for awhile, could be a representation of the rhythmic, frequent, lapping of little waves on a shore. When I focused on that visual the music suddenly became sublime and I felt more at peace for a time.
you got it
Do people not understand what monotony is anymogre after Leyland kirby shattered the glass sealing
Thank you so much for this. Have spent six months finishing editing my debut novel to this. Perfect for focusing. Basinski - you are amazing
What's the name of your novel?
pure emptiness
some notes, chords and structures give goose bumps .. I never understood why... Someone said its Nostalgia, but thats not it. Im hearing this for the first time (these tiny bits of broken piano dancing on a pond of sounds) ... Que Bon !!
Nostalgia for everything that has ever existed in the entire Universe, because you've been all of it, the whole time. And you always will be. You're the sun rising and the person watching it rise. You are the water bearer.
And I love you.
Breakups can be an extreme difficulty, sadness, despair, hopelessness unprecedented. But, in time, you find happiness and faith in yourself again, then create and feel with someone new.
The big bang was a break-up. The relationship that existed before it was a thing of beauty, a powerful unit, immovable by any force except the one that wears the mask of time. The sadness of the breakup is that it wasn't a choice. But my are there all the choices in the Universe to choose from for the rest of eternity.. You can form units of energy with the infinite, infinitely.
Yet, none, will be exactly like the first.
@@dannielle5476 oh my ... Now that requires some thought. Ciao
@@AudioPervert1 hey it's all speculation, I know as much as anyone else :)
I was working through creative writing prompts and exercises while listening to music and I guess a few of my comments aren't well thought out or executed
@@dannielle5476 hi ... I was super tired last night when reading your comment. It's all good... Flow of consciousness they say? My first comment was more about the effect of memory and nostalgia, without which a lot of music (from the past) would not have much relevance.
@@dannielle5476 true that ... yet why this broken piano jangle .. it's beautiful to say the least.
This gives me flashbacks to when my parents took me to church at five years old and I noticed how all the windows had this privacy film that made it a little too blurry to see clearly outside. It was raining and I just kept staring at the droplets of blurred water impacting the window
Music is wonderful for this connection. Basinski made you remember this moment because he captured something like it, something it had been like to be in that moment for you. Reflected in such wonderfully beautiful harmony
@@gado__ Definitely love how music does things like this.
Allow me to inhabit the space between your hands,
Twice broken diamond,
Has anyone ever told you the song the crickets wrote for you?
Allow me to populate your pupils in low light environments,
Salt water wave spray,
Has the moon sent you any fan mail?
Allow me to nestle in the timing of your laughter,
Evergreen pot of life,
Have you danced the trees into stillness?
Allow me to relocate to the breath you held,
Gust of wind through the willows,
Have you returned the owl her silent strike?
Allow me to live in the locks of your hair,
Cascade of brown shade,
Have you tasted the inside of my existence?
You're a story of creation
I'm moved and stilled, my Yin dances with my Yang at your words of enchantment
Stunningly beautiful words. Thank you!
Neruda?
@@maxgregorycompositions6216 It's an original, if it's similar to Neruda's style it's a happy coincidence
Coś wspaniałego
beautiful.
Headphones in
I listened
Eyes closed and
Empty mind
I gently
left the earth
Rip
Legend says he has yet to return from the cascade.
I was listening to this for 10 minutes before I even actually noticed I was listening to it and then I was like HOLY SHIT WHAT IS THIS?
+Z LA That is the report of a great experience!
+Z LA I had the exact same experience. When you're working, it flawlessly melds into your unconsciousness.
+Z LA
29 minutes untill I realized it
+Z LA Just had the exact same experience twelve minutes in when my brain hemispheres said, "Okay, we've decided that, despite all impressions to the contrary, these sounds are not our internal workings but are actually coming from outside the cranium somewhere."
+Chris Rob mindblown
the interesting thing is that from what i think i can hear is that each time the loop retriggers/repeats there is like either a delay or slight variation in timing, so that it is more fluid and slightly flexible, It might have to to with his 'method' of using two tape machines playing of one another, and what i guess is that maybe they retrigger each other depending on when their delay effects end or start or something like that. Either way there is an organic quality, analog perhaps because if this was digital then the loops would be alot of obvious where they trigger, it would be quantized. So there seems to be a slight randomness factor that William Basinski is controlling during the recording of this 40min set.
This reinforces my will to make music.
Smoke heroin and ya music will get reel.
Reel reel gud m8
Going deeper and deeper...
This music brings me to a place where only my soul can express
¡¡Que maravilloso !!.....Gracias !
took me 20 minutes to realize this is not an album but just one extended song
I reeeeaaaaalllyyy recommend putting this on whilst driving around SF when it's overcast with fog early in the day on the weekend. It eerily fits.
Could it be?
Among the darkness I sank myself into
Your flare
I stare
Could it be?
Your mere presence
Blessing upon tired heart
I revive
Could it be?
Candle light
To drive away the night
Moonlit wit to warm me up
Inside
Could it be?
Will you drive away the ghosts?
Will you be the promise broken?
Could it be?
Perhaps
I won't rush
Again
I'll let it be
If it'll be
It'll be
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This is a very beautiful poem. Thank you for this.
oh my god this is amazing
Stripped from flesh our souls begin to rest on an infinite sheet of light, like a feather falling to the ground we watch memories of our past circling and twirling on a golden theatre film reel. Of who we were and what we became the cold breath of death still lingers, imprinted in the Aether until we rejoin again in the next life.
This is....beautiful.....this is.....perfect......exactly how my life would be in the form of sound...
Beautiful and meditative without snags.
40min later and still waiting for the drop.
porcupine133 i think now it’s 3years + 40 minutes and youre still in a wrong place
Ambient do not have drops
@@jandoubrava3991 no shit sherlock
Yeah where's the fucking chorus and the backing dancers?
Just stumbled on this, I actually compose music like this for my own delectation on my modular synth. Very much to my taste. As to why I just discovered it, I rarely go hunting for other artists, so I'm pleasantly surprised, thank you.
23:10 is fire.
+Charles-David Roc yes, that part is the whole reason i play guitar
+Charles-David Roc oh my wow
+evolutionary transgression that but there was why I sold my house to buy acid
no this is not a justin beaver album like you wish it was...
wot
This song gets to me, it makes me feel weary and almost dreadful. I always end up feeling a bit sluggish and at the same time existential. I listened to it with my friend and he said the exact same thing. Good stuff basinski, music really gets to ya.
If I ever want to experience the feeling of dread I just listen to this. Basinski has a knack for luring out those deep emotions.
i'm alive, i'm alive, i'm alive