A thinky, experimental record

THE DISINTEGRATION LOOPS by William Basinski Recommended by Steve Sladkowski, musician and member, PUP

“Basinski’s experimental magnum opus is a fivehour looped recording of the real-time deterioration and destruction of a tape. Listening to it helps me find the sublime in the face of terminal decay. His work has also helped me reckon with some big questions: what does it mean to look for beauty in a pandemic? How do you live in a permanently altered and perhaps terminally declining landscape?”