William Basinski has introduced a brand new album and 2024 tour dates slated for this fall. The upcoming LP is known as September 23rd. Opposite to what that title suggests, the album will arrive 4 days in a while September 27 through Temporary Residence Ltd.. The up to date experimental composer has additionally shared a brand new music from the discharge, “September twenty third (Excerpt 1),” that you could hearken to beneath.
September twenty third is the primary document in a brand new sequence Basinski is looking Arcadia Archive, an ongoing archival assortment devoted to the invention and restoration of his work. Recorded in September 1982 inside his first loft within the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, September twenty third was constructed from a piano piece that Basinski composed in highschool earlier than increasing it into a special work.
“The unique piano recordings have been made on on a piano belonging to my downstairs neighbor, John Epperson – later recognized extra famously as world-renowned drag artist, Lypsinka – at 351 Jay Road aka Casa Degli Artisti, our first loft in New York,” explains Basinski. “It was recoded with somewhat transportable (most likely Radio Shack) cassette deck sitting on the piano as I improvised a chunk I had been engaged on since highschool. It was fairly horrible, however once I did the John Giorno/William Burroughs cut-up approach, abruptly I had one thing to place via the Frippertronics loop and suggestions loop tape delay system – and boy did I get outcomes. A really prolific time for a younger, wacked-out queen in NYC.”
Basinski will carry out this new piece and different works at his upcoming fall tour dates. Dubbed the Arcadia Archive Tour, it spans 4 cities in whole—San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, and New York—with different performances bookending the run, together with stops on the Vancouver Worldwide Movie Pageant and a Plantasia present in Chicago. See Basinski’s full checklist of tour dates beneath.
In 2022, Basinski partnered with Janek Schaefer on the collaborative album …On Reflection. His final solo album got here out again in 2020, Lamentations, the identical 12 months that he returned to his mission Sparkle Division to document To Feel Embraced. He additionally unveiled the archival piece The Clocktower on the Seashore final 12 months.
Learn the 5-10-15-20 interview “William Basinski on the Music That Made Him.”
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09-05 Chicago, IL – Garfield Park Conservatory
09-13 San Francisco, CA – Grace Cathedral
09-20 Seattle, WA – Seattle First Baptist Church
09-21 Portland, OR – First Congregational UCC Church
10-02 Vancouver, British Columbia – Vancouver Worldwide Movie Pageant
10-17 Los Angeles, CA – The Nimoy
11-01 New York, NY – Church of the Heavenly Relaxation
11-02 – Austin, TX – Levitation 2024
