The music review online magazine Pitchfork Media placed The Disintegration Loops I-IV at number thirty on their list of top fifty albums of 2004[REF] and at number 196 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s [REF].
On the afternoon of September eleventh, 2011, Basinski's work was performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City as a live orchestration to mark the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks [REF].