The performer is back with two very different albums, one released under the Sparkle Division.
Andrew Dansby December 22, 2020Updated: December 22, 2020, 2:53 pm
Electronic music pioneer William Basinski Photo: Danilo Pellegrinelli
William Basinski entered 2020 with big plans.
He’d just released an album the year prior, the well-received “On Time Out of Time,” which found him collaborating with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory to turn the sound of two merging black holes into an album of ambient music. Basinski known for dark and slowly unfolding ambient pieces referred to it as “a love story.”
The Houston-born performer had endured lean years in New York in the ’80s, the result of making music ahead of its time. But Basinski has enjoyed a run of renown for more than two decades now as an innovative electronic musician who has escaped the avant-garde for a broader sort of success.