Album of the year as far as I'm concerned:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5s-KLGVcTI
Is this just 40 minutes or so of ambient piano music?
I liked it, but it's like the musical equivalent of white noise.
If you like that, I recommend Grouper. Makes some really good ambient electronic type music. Like listening to music through several layers of thick felt.
Grouper is good -- if you want to say "the musical equivalent of white noise" I would say the majority of pop music falls under that criteria
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Not that you're wrong -- I also really love Stars of the Lid and Lustmord, who would both probably fall under the same criteria, but the idea that there is music that isn't "the equivalent of white noise" is, to some degree, silly to me. What Basinski is doing is more akin to what a lot of people typically associate with classical music -- repeated themes that evolve over a longer course of time. In this case it's a a piano loop he recorded and then treated in such a way that's being effected over the duration of the piece. Needless to say a good stereo system (or at least not laptop speakers) is pretty essential to this sort of stuff, but it also takes a certain temperament.
If you want real 'music that is the equivalent of white noise' I suggest Merzbow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4g2Zjolsa0(spoiler alert, that's noise music. Specifically, it's harsh noise music, but I get the feeling the audience for this sort of stuff on CB [and the discussion therin] is an audience of one.)
