The Disintegration Loops

I am currently a bit in awe of William Basinski's four CD set, The Disintegration Loops. Created during a process of salvaging old bits of music the ambient musician had created in 1982, the result is the sound of the recordings deteriorating into nothing. I'm not 100% sure of how the sounds I'm hearing are being created, but the smokey glow of the tracks are more breathtaking than the majority of the ambient music I have ever heard. All four volumes  have a picture of the New York skyline in the wake of 9/11 as their cover art, as this was apparently Basinski's rooftop view upon the completion of the mix of the album. The eerie and peaceful vibe of the music conjures up so many feelings and questions as one can imagine in the events of that horrible day. It's hard to choose a favorite piece out of the bunch so I will include a link here to a youtube page that has several excerpts from the massive project.