PORTLAND
William Basinski
An evening of transcendent sound + light with the icon of ambient music
Saturday, September 21, 2024
First Congregational Church of Portland
7pm (doors) 8pm (performance)
All ages
with Flore Laurentienne
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Join Reflections for an unforgettable night with ambient legend William Basinski. Live mixing 40+ year old tape loops and archival piano recordings from Arcadia, his former loft in Brooklyn, he’ll premiere a new work – a prayer for peace, channeled via 1970s Uher tape machines and digital feedback.
Canadian composer Flore Laurentienne shares a deeply moving opening set for live string quartet and analog synths. We’ll pair the sounds with a visionary, projection-mapped light show, transforming this historic Portland church – and ourselves – in a ritual of immersive, melancholic beauty.
William Basinski
William Basinski is a classically trained composer who has been working in experimental media for over 30 years in NYC and most recently, California.
Employing obsolete technology and analogue tape loops, his haunting and melancholy soundscapes explore the temporal nature of life and resound with the reverberations of memory and the mystery of time. His epic 4-disc masterwork, The Disintegration Loops, received international critical acclaim and was chosen as one of the top 50 albums of 2004 by Pitchfork.
Basinski was chosen by music director Antony Hegarty to score the Robert Wilson opera, The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic. Orchestral transcriptions of The Disintegration Loops by Maxim Moston have been performed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Queen Elizabeth Hall and La Batie Festival in Geneva, Switzerland. With Preston Wendel he released a jazz-inflected LP under the name Sparkle Division, with special guests such as the late Henry Grimes on upright bass. In March 2022 the album “. . on reflection” by William Basinski & Janek Schaefer was released by Temporary Residence, Ltd.
Flore Laurentienne
Canadian composer Mathieu David Gagnon, aka Flore Laurentienne, draws inspiration from the rivers and rugged wilderness of his native Quebec.
His mesmerizing Volume I and II albums were released on RVNG Intl. in 2022, summoning beauty through repetition and constraint. For his Reflections performances, he’ll share a new work featuring a live string quartet and a range of analog synths and keyboards.
First Congregational Church of Portland
A rare American example of the Venetian Gothic style, the First Congregational Church was designed by Swiss architect Henry J. Hefty, with construction completed in 1895. Its 175-foot-high bell tower stood as the tallest structure in Portland for 60 years. The church organ incorporates the wind chests and bellow system from an original organ built in 1877. The building is an ADA accessible space.
1126 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR 97205
First Congregational Church of Portland
A rare American example of the Venetian Gothic style, the First Congregational Church was designed by Swiss architect Henry J. Hefty, with construction completed in 1895. Its 175-foot-high bell tower stood as the tallest structure in Portland for 60 years. The church organ incorporates the wind chests and bellow system from an original organ built in 1877. The building is an ADA accessible space.
1126 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR 97205
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