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TIL that on the morning of 9/11/01, avante-garde composer William Basinki completed the Disintigration Loops. Composed of tape loops slowly disintigrating in the process of being digitized, Basinki dedicated the albums to the victims of the WTC attacks, which he witnessed from his Brooklyn apartment

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