William Basinski + Richard Chartier - Untitled 1 - 3

"Richard and I became friends after meeting at Tonic in NY when he and Taylor Deupree did a show with Carsten Nicolai. He contacted me about a possible collaboration and sent me a track which I thought was very rich and harmonically similar to something I had recently been working on, a very swampy, dark piece I was calling "The Garden of Brokenness" after a very beautiful new installation by James Elaine.
I popped it into pro tools with my piece and something really special was happening, so I spent a few weeks weeding my track, trying different things...eventually I stripped it way down and we were both quite happy with the result.
Richard came up to NY and we fine tuned it a bit together and it was done. Since the piece had changed quite a bit we decided not to use that title for this piece. He then sent me another one and again, it just worked with something else I had been working on...the second track came together very quickly, and there you have it! I love Richard's work...very elegant, like the man!".
(William Basinski)

Two masters of microsound together again for reissuing an appreciated collaborative work released in 2004 on Spekk label, now resumed, expanded with two new tracks and remastered by Taylor Deupree.
William and Richard decided to add “Untitled 3” and its “Reprise” to the two original pieces, keeping the early profile that marked this project.
A matter of pure minimalism here, a sound softly made that gracefully expands itself.
If you have not yet listened to “Untitled” (Spekk, 2004) it's time to do it now, if you loved it you’ll view this update as a well-conceived integration, once again able to transmit to you its meditative atmosphere.

Label: Line
Cat. #: Line_034
Format: CD
Release date: 2008

Tracklisting:
01 - Untitled 1 (20:55)
02 - Untitled 2 (35:09)
03 - Untitled 3 (11:27)
04 - Untitled 3 (Reprise) (05:41)

Richard Chartier’s previous releases:

• Direct, Incidental, Consequential. (1998, Intransitive Recordings, INT005)
• A Hesitant Fold (1999, Meme, MEME 016)
• Post-Fabricated (1999, Microwave Recordings, M0004)
• SPEC. (1999, 12k, 12k1007) (w/ Taylor Deupree)
• Tool (1999, Microwave Recordings, M005) (w/ /slo-fi, Goem, Surge)
• InvalidObject Series (Typeof) (2000, Fällt, F.0014.0020)
• Series (2000, Line, Line_001)
• Decisive Forms (2001, Trente Oiseaux, TOC 013)
• Felt (2001, Tiln, tiln_005)
• Silver (2001, 3particles, 3PARTICLES01)
• (For Morton Feldman) (2002, Trente Oiseaux, TOC 024) (w/ Bernhard Günter, Steve Roden)
• 3_Components (2002, Fusebox, --)
• Other Materials (2002, 3particles, 3PARTICLES02)
• Direct, Incidental, Consequential. (Edition 2) (2002, 3particles, 3PARTICLES03)
• Of Surfaces (2002, Line, Line_008)
• Sketch For Winter (2002, 3particles, 3PARTICLES04)
• Archival 1991 (2003, Crouton, crou024)
• Overview (2003, 3particles, 3PARTICLES05)
• Two Locations (2003, Line, Line_013)
• Edition (2004, Line, Line_ED02)
• Retrieval (2004, ERS, ERS 12/14)
• Set Or Performance (2004, Line, Line_018)
• Chessmachine - Chessmachine [Ivan Pavlov Against Richard Chartier] (2004, Mutek_Rec, MTK_CLB03) (w/ Ivan Pavlov)
• Untitled (2004, Spekk, KK002) (w/ William Basinski)
• A Field For Recordings. 1 (2005, 3particles, 3PARTICLES06)
• Kapotte Muziek By Chartier / Raton (2005, Korm Plastics, KP 3019) (w/ Boca Raton)
• Re'Post'Postfabricated (2005, Defrag Sound Processing, dfrgcd85) (w/ VV.AA.)
• Retrieval 1-5 (2005, ERS, ERS CD007)
• Chessmachine - Live In Los Angeles (2005, Line, Line_023)
• Tracing (2005, Non Visual Objects, nvo 005)
• Current (2006, Room40, EDRM409)
• Incidence (2006, Raster-Noton, R-N 75)
• Levels (Inverted) (2006, Line, Line_ED05)
• Reflect What You Are ... (2006, 3particles, 3PARTICLES08)
• Specification.Fifteen (2006, Line, Line_027) (w/ Taylor Deupree)
• Fabrication (2007, Die Stadt, DS99) (w/ Asmus Tietchens) (here)
• November 9, 2007 (2007, term., term.18) (w/ Sawako, Shinjiro Yamaguchi)
• Absence (2008, 3particles, 3PARTICLES09)

Richard Chartier’s subsequent releases:

• Further Materials (2008, Line, Line_035)
• Untitled (angle.1) (2009, Non Visual Object, nvo 018)
• A Field For Mixing (2010, Room40, RM439)
• Fabrication 2 (2010, Auf Abwegen, AATP29) (w/ Asmus Tietchens)
• Untitled Tapes: 1991-1993 (2011, 3particles, 3PARTICLES12)
  
• Transparency (Performance) (2011, Line, LINE_049)
• Built Through (2012, Line, LINE_056) (w/ Robert Curgenven)
• Undefined (2013, Farmacia901, F90110) (w/ Yann Novak)
• Interior Field (2013, Line, LINE_062)  
• Divertissement (2015, Important Records, imprec417) (w/ William Basinski)
• Central (For M​.​Vainio) (2018, Line, LINE_095)  
• Variable Dimensions (2020, Line, LINE_111)  
• Something From The Pink House (2020, 2062, 2062.2002) (w/ William Basinski)

Richard Chartier appears on:

• 0/r - 0/r (1999, 12k, 12k1006)
• Kim Cascone - Layeral Intersect #2: Pseudosphere (2001, Anechoic/Deadtech, Intersect-002)
• Freiband - .tiln Mixes (2003, Tiln, tiln_024)
• VV.AA. - Mutek 04 (2004, Mutek_Rec, MTK04)
• Alva Noto - Transvision (2005, Raster-Noton, R-N 62)
• VV.AA. - Colorfield Variations (2009, Line, Line_038)
  

Richard Chartier’s tracks appear on:

• VV.AA. - Lowercase (2000, Bremsstrahlung, blung 001) track: 3particles
• VV.AA. - Untitled (2000, 12k, 12k1008) track: Untitled
• VV.AA. - Variious (2000, Intransitive Recordings, INT013) track: Sent
• VV.AA. - Computer Music Journal (2001, MIT Press)
• VV.AA. - Between Two Points (2001, 12k/Line, 12k1012/Line_004) track: 010101
• VV.AA. - Chronologi 12k: Year 1-Year 4 (2001, Instinct Records, INS572-2) tracks: Specification Seven (w/ Taylor Deupree), Live (Excerpt)
• VV.AA. - Clicks & Cuts 2 (2001, Mille Plateaux, MP 098) track: Filer
• Goem - Gast (2001, Mutek_Rec, MTK_CLB01) track: Gast.Re (w/ Goem)
• VV.AA. - After (2002, 12k, 12k1017) tracks: Cascone + Chartier + Deupree (w/ Kim Cascone, Taylor Deupree), Afterimage
• VV.AA. - Whitney Biennial 2002 (2002, Whitney Museum of American Art) track: series[6] (edit)
• VV.AA. - Circle 0 (2002, Fylkingen Records, FYCD 1019) track: Herein, Then
• VV.AA. - Inflation (*0 "0.000" Remix) (2002, Mu Label, MU LABEL003 + 004) track: 000.0/01
• VV.AA. - Minima~list (2002, List, L 0001) track: Composition 09.01
• VV.AA. - Frequencies [Hz] (2003, Raster-Noton, ltd008) track: Tracing (Sketch For Andreas)
• VV.AA. - Two Point Two (2003, 12k/Line, 12k1026/Line_016)
• VV.AA. - Sounding Spaces - 9 Sound Installations (2003, ICC) track: Specification.Eleven (w/ Taylor Deupree)
  
• VV.AA. - (1.8)sec.comp (2004, (1.8)sec.records, (1.8)sec001) track: Untitled (For 1.8)
• Steinbrüchel & Brusa - -00:dedaih (2004, Synchron, sync03) track: audio rmxs
• VV.AA. - Loop 01 (2004, Loop, LOOP 01) track: Silver
• VV.AA. - Netmage 04 (2004, Wire Magazine, TDKNETM04) track: How Things Change (Excerpt)
• VV.AA. - Mutek 05 (2005, Mutek_Rec, MTK05) track: Tempt
• VV.AA. - 35 Mutant Seconds Based On Rafael Toral's Creamy Burst (2005, Grain of Sound/Baskaru, gos016/ karu:3) track: Improvisation_122904b
• VV.AA. - Line Promo (2006, Line, PROMO) tracks: Excerpt From “Set Or Performance”, Excerpt From “Specification Fifteen” (w/ Taylor Deupree)
• VV.AA. - On Isolation (2006, Room40, EDRM410) track: A Field For Recordings.3
• VV.AA. - Lágrimas De Miedo N°13 - Parhélie (2007, Fear Drop, LAGR 013) track: (Sketch) For Deletion
• VV.AA. - Camera Lucida (2007, Line, Line_030) track: Specification.sixteen (w/ Taylor Deupree)
• VV.AA. - Communication Defines Culture Volume 2 (2007, Conversation Records, CONVERS 002) track: Untitled
• VV.AA. - Extract - Portraits Of Soundartists (2007, Non Visual Objects, nvo 011) track: A Field For Recordings 2 (here)
• VV.AA. - Sound Contributions I (5.1) (2007, Leerraum [ ], 031.2007)
• VV.AA. - Airport Symphony (2007, Room40, EDRM417) track: Retrieval Path (here)
• VV.AA. - Atlantic Waves 2007 Festival Sampler (2007, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation/Wire Magazine, CGFCD107-2, Issue 285) track: (Sketch For) Deletion.2
• VV.AA. - Recovery (2008, Fractured Recordings, FRACT 01) track: Bleak Is My Favourite Cliché (w/ CoH)
• VV.AA. - Optofonica (2009, Line, Line_041) track: Sonolevitation (w/ Evelina Domnitch, Dmitry Gelfand)
• VV.AA. - 10 (2011, Room40, DRM410) track: Rendered1_2009

As for William Basinski, refer to this post
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Links:
Richard Chartier
William Basinski (myspace) (MMLXII label)
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Artists: William Basinski

William Basinski is a musician, composer, auteur who has worked in experimental media for over twenty years in NYC, expanding the boundaries of the aural landscape.
A classically trained clarinetist, he studied jazz saxophone and composition at North Texas State University in the late 70’s.
In 1978, inspired by minimalists such as Steve Reich and Brian Eno, he began developing his own vocabulary using tape loops and old reel to reel tape decks.
He developed his meditative, melancholy style experimenting with short looped melodies played against themselves creating feedback loops.
His early studies with piano and tape, from 1980–82, Variations: A Movement in Chrome Primitive, will be released in September 2002 for the first time on David Tibet’s Durtro.

In 1982, he began experimenting with pulling sound from the airwaves. By sampling short melodies from Muzak radio onto tape loops of varying lengths, slowing them down, and mixing them together with a symphony of shortwave radio static in real time, he created his Shortwave Music series. A selection of these pieces was released to critical acclaim in 1998 by Carsten Nicolai’s German label, Raster-Noton.

The culmination of these studies, the 1983 masterwork, The River, a 90-minute "music of the spheres" was released on Raster-Noton in May 2002.
In August 2001 were created The Disintegration Loops. In the process of archiving and digitizing old loops, Basinski discovered a group of bucolic loops that began to disintegrate during the recording process. These pieces seem to portray the life and death of the American pastoral landscape. . The 6 pieces were released on 4 cd’s from 2002 to 2003.

A 63 minute video with Disintegration Loop 1.1 had its world premiere at the 2002 Rotterdam International Film Festival. It consists of one static shot of lower Manhattan shot from his roof in Brooklyn on the evening of September 11th, 2001, as that fateful day turned to night.

Discography:

• Shortwavemusic (1998, Raster-Noton, vyr012)
• Watermusic (2001, 2062, 2062 0102)
• The Disintegration Loops (2002, 2062, 2062 0201)
• The River (2002, Raster-Noton, cdr048)
• A Red Score In Tile (2003, Three Poplars, 3P10)
• Melancholia (2003, 2062, 2062 0301)
• The Disintegration Loops II (2003, 2062, 2062 0202)
• The Disintegration Loops III (2003, 2062, 2062 0304)
• The Disintegration Loops IV (2003, 2062, 2062 0305)
• Untitled (2003, Robot Records, RR-29) (w/ Andreas Martin, Christoph Heemann)
• Watermusic II (2003, 2062, 2062 0302)
• Disintegration Loop 1.1 (2004, Vectors /Headz, vector 3 / HEADZ 32)
• Silent Night (2004, 2062, 2062 0401)
• Untitled (2004, Spekk, KK:002) (w/ Richard Chartier)
• Variations: A Movement In Chrome Primitive (2004, Die Stadt /Durtro, DS71 / DURTRO 071)
• Melancholia (2005, 2062, 2062 0301)
• The Garden Of Brokenness (2005, 2062, 2062 0501)
• Watermusic (2005, 2062, 2062 0102)
• Variations For Piano & Tape (2006, 2062, 2062.0601)
• El Camino Real (2007, 2062, 2062.0703)
• Shortwavemusic (2007, 2062, 2062.0701)
• Untitled 1-3 (2008, Line, Line_034) (w/ Richard Chartier) (here)
• The River (Alternative Mixes) (2008, 2062, 2062.0803)
  
• 92982 (2009, 2062, 2062.0901)
• Vivian & Ondine (2009, 2062, 2062.0902)
• The Disintegration Loops (2012, Temporary Residence Limited, TRR194)
  
• Aurora Liminalis (2013, Line, Line_060) (w/ Richard Chartier)
• Nocturnes (2013, 2062, 2062.1201)
• Cascade (2015, 2062, 2062.1501)
• The Deluge Live At Issue Project Room (2015, 2062, 2062.1502DIG)
• Divertissement (2015, Important Records, imprec417) (w/ Richard Chartier) 
• Selva Oscura (2018, Temporary Residence Ltd., TRR312LP) (w/ Lawrence English)  
• On Time Out Of Time (2019, Temporary Residence Ltd., TRR311) 
• Hymns Of Oblivion (2020, self-released)
• Something From The Pink House (2020, 2062, 2062.2002) (w/ Richard Chartier)

Tracks appear on:

• Not Alone (2006, Durtro/Jnana Records, DURTRO/JNANA 1963) track: Because
• Raster-Noton: Archiv 1.1 (2004, Asphodel, ASP 2025) track: River II
• A1. Raster-Noton. Archiv 1 (2004, Raster-Noton, cdr056) track: Shortwavemusic
• Weltecho Box (2003, Raster-Noton, cdr052) track: Shortwavemusic
• Two Point Two (2003, 12k / Line, 12k1026 / Line_016) track: Worry
• The Allegorical Power Series Volume I (2003, Antiopic, ANMP001-007) track: Despair
• A1. Raster-Noton. Archiv 1 (2003, Wire Magazine, Issue 238) track: Shortwavemusic
• 60 Sound Artists Protest The War (2003, Atak, --) track: A Moment Of Silence
• Alienation Presents: International Compilation CDr_3 (2001, Alienation, su 23) tracks: Variation For Piano And Tape, The Saddest Melody Ever Heard
• New Forms - Compilation (2000, Raster-Noton, ltd006) track: Tape Loop

William Basinski - Melancholia

Links:
William Basinski
Video: Disintegration Loop 1.1 (63:00) (pwd: interzona23)