Basinski, William

Extent

2 websites in 1 archived website

Scope and Contents

The website contains a biography of the artist, a calendar of his events, a catalog of his albums, 32 audio files recording his musical works, and 1 video file recording a performance of one of his compositions. Basinski makes use of obsolete technologies as well as modern ones to create his compositions. Capture of website began in May 2017. This description is based on the May 2017 capture of the site.

Accruals

New site crawls are accrued semiannually.

Appraisal

Robots.txt (a piece of code designed to limit crawler activity within a website) was ignored. Crawl was limited to domains and subdomains of http://www.mmlxii.com/ and https://soundcloud.com/william-basinski in order to remain within the collection scope and data constraints.

Some external sites were included due to their contextual value to the site that is the focus of this crawl. This site is https://soundcloud.com/william-basinski.

Externally hosted content

Archived website of William Basinski.
https://wayback.archive-it.org/4049/*/http://www.mmlxii.com/