Basinski is perfect for when you want silence to be filled. Not too much, never overwhelmingly so, but just enough to inspire and comfort. It pads the silence with the right amount of colour, leaving you free to think and to work. It's like the remnants of some great object or person or event that's passed, and has left these haunting, knowing sounds behind; echoes that still turn with a sense of life, pointing at once to the power of the thing that's no longer there and to the immense potential of what's to come, the space that is there to be explored, cultivated, filled, or simply left open. It that that we work upon, in whatever form that may be.
+tomaski Yes I think that's about right, I mostly listen to old rock and roll, surf, reggae and jazz music, but I have been doing some writing recently and so was searching for some ambient music to concentrate the mind that was not tacky or insipid, While I already knew and have used Eno's ambient 4 in the past and Steve Reichs music for 18 musicians for this purpose, and both are superb albums I was hopeful to find more, but little has fit the bill so far. Basinski however fulfills Eno's desire that ambient music could be simply functional, something you turn on and in a sense forget about like turning on a light better than Eno himself.
"Vivian & Ondine, a single 45-minute piece, came into being when Basinski’s sister-in-law was heavily pregnant. The as yet unborn baby, already named Vivian, was overdue, and Basinski decided to compose a piece to help “coax her to come on out” into the world." "This is a work which celebrates new life, but is also burdened with the knowledge that all life must, at some point, end." - Kiran Sande
thank you so much for commenting this. this is one of my favorite basinski pieces and the addition of the story makes it that much more incredible of a work.
This is definitely one of Basinski's darkest pieces. Even more so than The Garden of Brokenness. It is pensive and cavernous. Its gaze is set on darkness, as if you are listening to the entirety of history stretch and warp through time. I don't know how he does it, but he makes the simplest loop of music transcend repetition, it just takes you off somewhere else. Meditative and beautiful. His music seems to speak to that part of us all, the human condition. A timeless composer.
+Thomas W Nailed it. I can't get over how good this is. I'm pretty well-versed in ambient music and listen to quite a bit of it and still can;t quite put my finger on what makes some of it so good and what makes other, superficially similar works so monotonous. Whatever it is Basinski is doing here is just absolutely riveting.
I've never thought about this piece as dark, never! I'm sleeping with it all the time and it's calming me. It struk me that it might be dark to people.
The soundtrack to stumbling through a dark forest, alone in the snow. You can't feel your limbs anymore, and the landscape takes on an intoxicating, surreal character as you drift in and out of consciousness. Soon you don't even feel the pain, and you become resigned to this cold, grey end as you stagger on, directionless. The storm is picking up. You feel as through you're being slowly buried in the sleet. You struggle in your last grim desperation, until your strength leaves you, and you fall, defeated. No-one will find your bones until the next spring. Well that was uplifting.
When all you thought you wanted was complete silence, only to find the desire to be alone had evolved into loneliness, this filters into the room, wafts to the ceiling and down along the walls, rolls across the floor, and like a favourite blanket, wraps you up and layers you with comfort.
Into the blue abyss, endlessly. Above reflecting shadows of the outer world. There's no going back, they are waiting for you. Singers of the deep. The voice in the dark, cold and distant. Let go, sink. Into the blue abyss, endlessly.
Deeper and deeper in a silent despair. Open, hopeless eyes, void inside of them. "I didn't want any of this, never.. I never imagined it could be so dreadful." But still it has happened. There's no way back. This is what this music evokes to me.. It's hypnotizing and at the same time excruciating.. It seems like only death can follow something like this.
I think I get what you mean. I think that you feel a religious experience: your ego is erased or less present, your nerves, lacking isolation, transmit stimulus stronger than a "normal person" ones, top of my head starts to tingle. What I am, especially after two pints of beer and listening to Basinski's works, starts to fade away and for a moment I don't have to pretend, that I am worth of anything.
When I drift off and encounter this piece on my sleep/superchill playlist, the applause at the finale scares the shit out of me every time! I must edit this out. Of course, Bas deserves all the accolades for premium knob-twiddling that fans launch his way, but this ovational outburst definitely kills the hypnotic vibe he set up here...
buy the digital file from my bandcamp page... this is a live version. i'm sure there are other recorded versions online... duh...c'mon y'all if ya love me, do some research and buy the shit ffs when you can afford it. i'm not superman, not loaded, just trying to survive and bring you more beauty while i can. stay with me!
I'm alone, with the night, with the wind, my windows let me feel the perfect feeling of the warm ground smell, not sure if i'm depressed or euphoric, strange, but perfect, feeling... Thanks William
Definitely one of the darker William Basinki pieces I've heard, but also one of the most beautiful. I could imagine this playing whilst you are thrown into another dimension, seeing time warp on itself. Remarkable!
You'll love other Basinski's works. I strongly suggest you giving a listen to "The disintegration loops IV" and "VI" and "The garden of brokenness". Those are my favourite "getaway" pieces. Thank you for comment!
This is the kind of music you hear as you are aging and going into your deathbed, accepting the vastness of the universe and the emptiness that was your life as it was only an endless repetition.
-- Un environnement sonore qui m'en rappelle d'autres, notamment l'univers musical, presque transcendantal du compositeur islandais Johann Johannsson. Bizarre, envoûtant, à la fois rassurant mais également inquiétant. Un trip à tenter car c'est bien d'une invitation (déguisée) au voyage qu'il s'agit . --
This music has a perfect hook with the moment after a nuclear and biological catastrophe around the world by a world war. After this conflict, there is bitterness, trauma and this background song in the silence left by everyone who has survived due to the shock of what happened.
That piece is better enjoyed when you are in internal peace, but it is the kind of piece I usually come to listen when I am not in peace. It's so good to be so calm and relaxed right now, that I would rather choose not to wake up tomorrow.
thank you for this beautiful upload. This is one of the many albums I intend to buy once I can afford to do so. Thank you so much for making this available. Another generous Tuber posted the entirety of Rich's 'Somnity' : )
this is a slightly different version from the album version... it is three minutes shorter, has more reverb, and is pitched down ever so slightly. equally awesome.
No, but I will. I got to know that phrase while sifting through Godspeed you! Black emperor live performances here on youtube. Thanks for clarifying the etymology of "The anatomy of melancholy".
I had a terrible dream a while ago, apocalyptic. I was in my room, and I have a window facing east. When I looked at the sun, its radius was 5-10 times larger. You could see a powerful burst of energy, but at the same time its power seemed to be weakening because looking at the sun you could see structures and colors from yellow to orange, brown to black. The most terrifying thing was that a piece of our star was gone. I told my mom what I saw and we woke up dad right away that the end of everything was coming. 13.07.2023 r.
Bigatość psychodeliki tego albumu przebiła wszystko co do tej pory słuchałem teraz siedze upierdolony marichuaną ,gram w black squad słucham tego i jest códownie ,hehe ,lepiej jestem 39 latkiem 3 dzieci hihi ,słucham najcięższej muzyki psychodelicznej od hard techno po basińskiego ,każdy gatunek chcecie poznac więcej dajcie łapke w g i zoswcie suba ,cel jakas wielka masówka jak kilka tys sie podpisze hehe
Yeah, I mixed it up - "IV" is the album name and I suggested all of them. "VI" is the track name, which I thought comes from the album "The disintegration loops III".
I love this one especially. Great track. I cant helpp but laugh at the thought of people clapping after 40 mins of two chords.!!! Me personally I get it... and i'd think... holy sh1t how did i get to a point where i love this music?... and the people there in the audience with me are EXTREMELY unique. People at work... I haven;t told them, or showed them that i listen to sh1t like this. It's funny to picture what normal people think.
The Harmony of a Melody, Culminating Unto an Assembly "Echoo000OOOO-ING" OF ETERNITY Heart-Broken. In The Groaning's of Travail, yet "\/ictorious" In The HOPE OF THE BLESSED RESURRECTION,.............................................. OF 🕊Christ JESUS✝! THE MESSIAH HAS RISEN🍇AMEN! AS FORE\/ER IS INFINITELY DESIRERING. To Bestow in "LO\/ING HONOR",................🕊..........✝.................................. GLORY UNTO GOD IN HEA\/EN, FOREVER✝!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!✝🦋
Fyi, Perhaps For Personal preferences, This Beautiful" William Basinski" piece Of " Vivian & Ondine" could once again, perhaps be followed by a DRUM & BASS Powerful Track! Produced by the European DJ Known as " Seba "--> [ Sebastian Ahrenberg ] --> & his Epic Track Called " Forever " UntO Those WhO Know, .........🕊💙🕊✝........Enjoy!
Absolutely love this video. Very haunting as some others have said. What other tracks are similar to this ? Does not have to be by William Basinki but would love to hear some of his other tracks if they are similar to this.
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Basinski is perfect for when you want silence to be filled. Not too much, never overwhelmingly so, but just enough to inspire and comfort. It pads the silence with the right amount of colour, leaving you free to think and to work. It's like the remnants of some great object or person or event that's passed, and has left these haunting, knowing sounds behind; echoes that still turn with a sense of life, pointing at once to the power of the thing that's no longer there and to the immense potential of what's to come, the space that is there to be explored, cultivated, filled, or simply left open. It that that we work upon, in whatever form that may be.
+tomaski Yes I think that's about right, I mostly listen to old rock and roll, surf, reggae and jazz music, but I have been doing some writing recently and so was searching for some ambient music to concentrate the mind that was not tacky or insipid, While I already knew and have used Eno's ambient 4 in the past and Steve Reichs music for 18 musicians for this purpose, and both are superb albums I was hopeful to find more, but little has fit the bill so far.
Basinski however fulfills Eno's desire that ambient music could be simply functional, something you turn on and in a sense forget about like turning on a light better than Eno himself.
What a beautiful comment.
"... or something like that." Lol
yes
The end is only the beginning, and what once was will come again, in time.
"Vivian & Ondine, a single 45-minute piece, came into being when Basinski’s sister-in-law was heavily pregnant. The as yet unborn baby, already named Vivian, was overdue, and Basinski decided to compose a piece to help “coax her to come on out” into the world."
"This is a work which celebrates new life, but is also burdened with the knowledge that all life must, at some point, end."
- Kiran Sande
damn....
MIND : BLOWN
wow
thank you so much for commenting this. this is one of my favorite basinski pieces and the addition of the story makes it that much more incredible of a work.
Thanks for explaining.
Basinski makes such incredible loops...the perfect level of minimalism, atmosphere and melancholy, really has quite a poignant affect
Basinski's work makes me feel things I've never felt from other types of music.
I listen to this on repeat , relentlessly through the night
Woke up, put this on, fell back asleep.
woke up, put this on, killed myself
Now that's some mood i'll say.
This is definitely one of Basinski's darkest pieces. Even more so than The Garden of Brokenness. It is pensive and cavernous. Its gaze is set on darkness, as if you are listening to the entirety of history stretch and warp through time. I don't know how he does it, but he makes the simplest loop of music transcend repetition, it just takes you off somewhere else. Meditative and beautiful. His music seems to speak to that part of us all, the human condition. A timeless composer.
+Thomas W Nailed it. I can't get over how good this is. I'm pretty well-versed in ambient music and listen to quite a bit of it and still can;t quite put my finger on what makes some of it so good and what makes other, superficially similar works so monotonous. Whatever it is Basinski is doing here is just absolutely riveting.
Could you recommend some other pieces that you feel have the same effect? I'd like to explore further.
i think you forgot watermusic II
I've never thought about this piece as dark, never! I'm sleeping with it all the time and it's calming me. It struk me that it might be dark to people.
Try ..
How to Dissapear Completely- Seraph II
i'm saying it: this is hands down Basinski's best work.
I agree and have everything he has released...by far the most magickal and captivating.
Were you not supposed to say it?
@@barclayv8282 no, because now im gonna say Red Score in Tile!
@@sweetsoul3145 red score in tile is solid, as well as vivian & ondine. though, my all time personal favorite basinski piece has to be 92982.1.
@@KurtWarnerMovie 92982 for the win
10 years but timeless.
this is not a song
it is the soul
This song is like waiting for a bus that never comes
Do you want that bus to come?
I don't know anymore. Maybe I should just walk to my destination
ScaleTheFretboard Or let it come to you. :-) So wonderful to see a good exchange of comments on YT. Thank you both!
+ScaleTheFretboard ghost world bb
You might eventually realize that you are already on the bus.
The end of humanity anthem, will be played when we left
In that case I want to be there
Original
The soundtrack to stumbling through a dark forest, alone in the snow. You can't feel your limbs anymore, and the landscape takes on an intoxicating, surreal character as you drift in and out of consciousness. Soon you don't even feel the pain, and you become resigned to this cold, grey end as you stagger on, directionless. The storm is picking up. You feel as through you're being slowly buried in the sleet. You struggle in your last grim desperation, until your strength leaves you, and you fall, defeated. No-one will find your bones until the next spring.
Well that was uplifting.
Finger Picking Good Haha, no, but your last comment was. Lol.
I recommend listening to this and the colorized footage of old times on here. Crazy combo.
When all you thought you wanted was complete silence, only to find the desire to be alone had evolved into loneliness, this filters into the room, wafts to the ceiling and down along the walls, rolls across the floor, and like a favourite blanket, wraps you up and layers you with comfort.
Пустота иллюзия, как только начинаешь ее слушать, то она оживает и звучит
Into the blue abyss, endlessly. Above reflecting shadows of the outer world. There's no going back, they are waiting for you. Singers of the deep. The voice in the dark, cold and distant. Let go, sink. Into the blue abyss, endlessly.
This is one of his most dark and sad pieces. It really gets under my skin in the most beautiful way.
As I'm watching this on my phone I get the feeling that the clouds are moving, I love the atmosphere of this.
This is one of Basinski's best works!
Outstanding 🙌🙌🙌
the sound of the abyss
Deeper and deeper in a silent despair. Open, hopeless eyes, void inside of them.
"I didn't want any of this, never.. I never imagined it could be so dreadful."
But still it has happened. There's no way back.
This is what this music evokes to me.. It's hypnotizing and at the same time excruciating..
It seems like only death can follow something like this.
I think I get what you mean. I think that you feel a religious experience: your ego is erased or less present, your nerves, lacking isolation, transmit stimulus stronger than a "normal person" ones, top of my head starts to tingle. What I am, especially after two pints of beer and listening to Basinski's works, starts to fade away and for a moment I don't have to pretend, that I am worth of anything.
Vivian & Ondine, a Labor of Love, Ouroboros.
I came into this world through a different doorway.
When I drift off and encounter this piece on my sleep/superchill playlist, the applause at the finale scares the shit out of me every time! I must edit this out. Of course, Bas deserves all the accolades for premium knob-twiddling that fans launch his way, but this ovational outburst definitely kills the hypnotic vibe he set up here...
buy the digital file from my bandcamp page... this is a live version. i'm sure there are other recorded versions online... duh...c'mon y'all if ya love me, do some research and buy the shit ffs when you can afford it. i'm not superman, not loaded, just trying to survive and bring you more beauty while i can. stay with me!
Always good to hear this when the mood takes you.
I'm alone, with the night, with the wind, my windows let me feel the perfect feeling of the warm ground smell, not sure if i'm depressed or euphoric, strange, but perfect, feeling... Thanks William
Great to hear that it is just as intense for the creator as it is for the listener!
This gives me a wonderful sense of drifting away. It is light of touch but stimulating to a level not normally felt.
heart-breakingly beautiful
The picture goes so well with the music. The greenish blue tints of a cloudy sky. Wonderful!
i`m read Goodnight Punpun and listen this amazing album,very interesting combination
Definitely one of the darker William Basinki pieces I've heard, but also one of the most beautiful. I could imagine this playing whilst you are thrown into another dimension, seeing time warp on itself. Remarkable!
Very Silent Hill-like, with an odd combination of eerieness and calm.
This is the best one of Basinski so far imo
I love to play Dark Souls 3, while listening to this
I think it is because DS3 is lonely and beautiful (like this piece) at the same time
You'll love other Basinski's works. I strongly suggest you giving a listen to "The disintegration loops IV" and "VI" and "The garden of brokenness". Those are my favourite "getaway" pieces. Thank you for comment!
I am glad, that my work (uploading) doesn't fall on stony ground. Thank you for comment!
Yes - that minimalism is what lures me the most in Basinski's works.
This is the kind of music you hear as you are aging and going into your deathbed, accepting the vastness of the universe and the emptiness that was your life as it was only an endless repetition.
Music for reading. This is my favourite production/effects/instruments in anything I heard
Amazing stuff, the more you listen, pay attention and let it inside your mind the more you realize how perfect it is.
It is good music for mental work. It's like the sound the mind machine. Redundant yet slowly moving.
-- Un environnement sonore qui m'en rappelle d'autres, notamment l'univers musical, presque transcendantal du compositeur islandais Johann Johannsson. Bizarre, envoûtant, à la fois rassurant mais également inquiétant. Un trip à tenter car c'est bien d'une invitation (déguisée) au voyage qu'il s'agit . --
I listen to a lot of Basinski these days.
This music has a perfect hook with the moment after a nuclear and biological catastrophe around the world by a world war.
After this conflict, there is bitterness, trauma and this background song in the silence left by everyone who has survived due to the shock of what happened.
Phenomenal song and that applause at the end takes me really in that concert feeling!
Shadowshift- that’s beautifully said.
That piece is better enjoyed when you are in internal peace, but it is the kind of piece I usually come to listen when I am not in peace. It's so good to be so calm and relaxed right now, that I would rather choose not to wake up tomorrow.
This song makes me think of war
Fighting is all we are now
the saddness goes on forever --- vincent van go-van
thank you for this beautiful upload. This is one of the many albums I intend to buy once I can afford to do so. Thank you so much for making this available. Another generous Tuber posted the entirety of Rich's 'Somnity' : )
this is a slightly different version from the album version... it is three minutes shorter, has more reverb, and is pitched down ever so slightly. equally awesome.
I think its because this is a live recording.
downloadable for free at free music archives.
Hypnotising......this is some crazy shit, man.
Шедевральная музыка
Actually , this sounds frightening. Like a sound from a different realm
wonderful...
thank you for posting this
if you stare long enough the clouds will move
Quite like to blast this out loud in an abandoned church
Lecur meum novum locum in commotionem interiorem television.
this is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard. life and death tug o war. this is real.
Thank you.
Thank you-I'm glad you liked that mate!
Its a master piece, Thank you, Peace.
Favorite song.
No, but I will. I got to know that phrase while sifting through Godspeed you! Black emperor live performances here on youtube. Thanks for clarifying the etymology of "The anatomy of melancholy".
That tone you hear after you just died, and it continues during your transition to your new form.
I had a terrible dream a while ago, apocalyptic. I was in my room, and I have a window facing east. When I looked at the sun, its radius was 5-10 times larger. You could see a powerful burst of energy, but at the same time its power seemed to be weakening because looking at the sun you could see structures and colors from yellow to orange, brown to black. The most terrifying thing was that a piece of our star was gone. I told my mom what I saw and we woke up dad right away that the end of everything was coming.
13.07.2023 r.
wow, this sounds quite terrifying. you have such a nice way with words, I could see it in my mind's eye. dreams are so fascinating to me
Bigatość psychodeliki tego albumu przebiła wszystko co do tej pory słuchałem teraz siedze upierdolony marichuaną ,gram w black squad słucham tego i jest códownie ,hehe ,lepiej jestem 39 latkiem 3 dzieci hihi ,słucham najcięższej muzyki psychodelicznej od hard techno po basińskiego ,każdy gatunek chcecie poznac więcej dajcie łapke w g i zoswcie suba ,cel jakas wielka masówka jak kilka tys sie podpisze hehe
*WOOOW!! HERMOSAMENTE MISTERIOSO!!*
..........this is where I want to be....this is what I truly am.......
Indeed) You're most welcome!
This is awesome.
Thank you for this!
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thanks
Nice upload, thanks.
I clapped too at the end....
Everybody does
it's amazing live. believe me.
+Varg Vikernes Never saw this, but saw dlp1.1 live and it was incredible.
In that case, give a listen to other Basinski's works, especially the "Disintegration loops" and get to know the anatomy of melancholy.
Thank you for comment.
Yeah, I mixed it up - "IV" is the album name and I suggested all of them. "VI" is the track name, which I thought comes from the album "The disintegration loops III".
Ambient Drone Soundscape... Bravissimo, píane
maistro,a masterpiece.
You're most welcome mate!
I played it at 2x speed for error and was just amazing
I hope I don't come off as pretentious saying this, but this sounds like the collective sigh of humanity to me.
Yep. Like a billion shoulders dropping at once after a 100 year war (now THATS how to be pretentious haha)
That's not pretentious at all, just the right way of putting it
Well i finally found music that suits Beksińskis paintings. You may enter this world but you are not welcome here
Right at the end.... this was live? To be there would have been amazing!
Maybe "Garden of brokenness" or "A red score in tile"? Outside of Basinski's works' category "Stone in focus" by Aphex twin.
I love this one especially. Great track. I cant helpp but laugh at the thought of people clapping after 40 mins of two chords.!!! Me personally I get it... and i'd think... holy sh1t how did i get to a point where i love this music?... and the people there in the audience with me are EXTREMELY unique. People at work... I haven;t told them, or showed them that i listen to sh1t like this. It's funny to picture what normal people think.
The Harmony of a Melody, Culminating Unto an Assembly "Echoo000OOOO-ING" OF ETERNITY Heart-Broken. In The Groaning's of Travail, yet "\/ictorious" In The HOPE OF THE BLESSED RESURRECTION,.............................................. OF 🕊Christ JESUS✝! THE MESSIAH HAS RISEN🍇AMEN! AS FORE\/ER IS INFINITELY DESIRERING. To Bestow in "LO\/ING HONOR",................🕊..........✝.................................. GLORY UNTO GOD IN HEA\/EN, FOREVER✝!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!✝🦋
Fyi, Perhaps For Personal preferences, This Beautiful" William Basinski" piece Of " Vivian & Ondine" could once again, perhaps be followed by a DRUM & BASS Powerful Track! Produced by the European DJ Known as " Seba "--> [ Sebastian Ahrenberg ] --> & his Epic Track Called " Forever " UntO Those WhO Know, .........🕊💙🕊✝........Enjoy!
Reading Revelations to this book yeah this is the Bible theme song
im reading Junji Ito's manga with this 'song'
meditation on..
Empty streets.
It's the sound of dread that there may be no gods.
woah, that escalated quickly
No gods? No masters.
Daniel Schaeffer only one world though, are you master of it?
Nope. I'm only a part of it, as are you!
Music like this reminds me that there is God
Does this count as ocean grunge music??
he is definitely burial's father
Absolutely love this video. Very haunting as some others have said. What other tracks are similar to this ? Does not have to be by William Basinki but would love to hear some of his other tracks if they are similar to this.
Aphex Twin, Stars of the Lid, Eluvium, Steve Roach, Loscil. 💠
Is this a continuous loop or are there any changes?
Various accentual changes throughout the track as it progresses
20:10 Someone taking a photo of Basinski
anything for you nico