William Basinski - Vivian & Ondine

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Vivian & Ondine

Catalog#: 2062.0902

 

Price: $20.00

CD 45:10. Release date: December 2009

 

"...I got back to work and found yet another lunchbox of ancient tape-loops to go through for possible inclusion in the new piece. I came across the main theme and thought...well, this is gorgeous; let's see if we can use this to coax Viv to come out. I went through the rest of them and found another dozen or so that mixed well used randomly, just under the threshold.

 

"The next night I performed the piece at Issue with their 16 channel hemispherical speaker system set to move the sounds randomly around the room as if waves in a pool. We all had a really good time. It was mesmerizing."

 

This version was recorded with microphones and two Norelco tape decks live in my studio in Los Angeles in one take in September 2008.

http://www.mmlxii.com/music/music.html

5 min. excerpt at http://www.myspace.com/williambasinski

Ow yeah.

Now some of you are thinking: "Another tapeloop found under the cushions of one of his dozens of 80's sofa's he never threw out." But whatevs, it's good. So nuts to ya.

Link to earlier thread.

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/44808-can-anyone-identify-this-william-basinski-piece/page__hl__ondine__fromsearch__1

  On 12/5/2009 at 5:13 AM, fumi said:

Link to earlier thread.

 

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/44808-can-anyone-identify-this-william-basinski-piece/page__hl__ondine__fromsearch__1

Really looking forward to this!

my copy arrived today.

heard this piece first when i saw him perform it earlier this year. another excellent release.

Did you receive an email when the cd was dispatched?

  On 12/12/2009 at 5:20 PM, Bewarethefriendlyfoil said:

Did you receive an email when the cd was dispatched?

i got an email from william after i sent the payment. got the cd a few days later. i live close to l.a. so shipping only took a few days

Not my copy though.

http://twitpic.com/t2mof

Just got my copy. Really impressive new album. Lots of detail deep down in the mix that is not apparent if you listen to the 5 min excerpt available.

My signed disc with Christmas Greeting.

http://bit.ly/7ifrVU