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At Rockefeller Memorial Chapel

Hyde Park, Chicago

Visitors note the building features beautiful stained glass windows and intricate wood carvings throughout.
Reviewers describe the neo-gothic chapel as one of the great buildings of its style in the United States.

Decayed tape recordings from September 2001 form The Disintegration Loops as composer William Basinski performs live on laptop, joined onstage by ambient legends Windy & Carl inside Rockefeller Memorial Chapel.

Saturday, November 14, 7:00 PM

William Basinski

Los Angeles‑based avant‑garde ambient/drone composer, tape‑loop pioneer

Headliner


American avant‑garde composer known for his decaying tape‑loop works such as The Disintegration Loops; he performs live laptop sets of his ambient compositions and has a background in the New York experimental music scene.

Purelink

Chicago‑born/Brooklyn‑based electronic downtempo trio blending ambient, experimental dub and trip‑hop


Electronic trio consisting of Tommy Paslaski, Ben Paulson and Akeem Asani; they create atmospheric ambient and downtempo music with dub‑flourished rhythms, described as a leading act in the Chicago‑Brooklyn electronic scene.

What are you into?

  • William Basinski live
  • The Disintegration Loops
  • Windy & Carl
  • Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
  • Hyde Park
  • Chicago

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