Ambient composer and Disintegration Loops creator William Basinski will be presenting special shows at churches in four US cities this fall. He’s calling the shows the Arcadia Archives Tour: “Live mixing 40+ year old tape loops and archival piano recordings captured at Arcadia, his former loft in Brooklyn, Basinski will premiere a new work – a prayer for peace, channeled via 1970s Uher tape machines and digital feedback.”
The Acadia Archives performances happen in San Francisco (9/13 at Grace Cathedral); Seattle (9/20 at Seattle First Baptist Church); Portland (9/21 at First Congregational UCC Church) and NYC (11/1 at Church of the Heavenly Rest).
Canadian composer Flore Laurentienne opens each night with a live string quartet and analog synths. The shows will also feature a “visionary, projection-mapped light show, transforming these historic churches – and ourselves – in a ritual of immersive, melancholic beauty.”
