Facts: - years active: 1978 -- present - origin: new york - label: raster-noton stadt line 2062 records temporary residence limited spekk durtro die - genre: ambient tape process music experimental - birth date: 1958 - name: william basinski - background: non_vocal_instrumentalist - image: basinski.jpg - associated acts: richard chartier - occupation: composer Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of william basinski .
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william basinski -lrb- born 1958 -rrb- is an avant-garde composer based in new york .he is also a clarinetist , saxophonist , sound artist , and video artist .basinski is best known for his four-volume album '' the disintegration loops '' -lrb- 2002 -- 2003 -rrb- , constructed from rapidly decaying twenty-year-old tapes of his earlier music .