Recyclopedia - A self portrait in music and sounds

It happened in 1997:

A flash in Frans Friederich’s brain pan constituted the birth of an ambitious plan: a series of cd’s in alphabetical order, based on the art of recycling musical history through samples. The concept of ‘recycling’ was in the air at the time. This combined with the fact that storing musical history amounts to composing an encyclopedia , generated a name for Frans’ project: ‘recyclopedia’.The positioning of musical styles and sounds in their historical context was the main challenge in the first four self-produced cd’s. In my liner notes for A the catchwords were: ‘creating a history of possiblities’, ‘plundering the archives of music’, ‘quoting music’ and ‘re-experiencing the music Frans grew up with’. That’s what happens in the sample- collages and ‘interpretations’ of fragments, selected from Frans’ musical preferences through the years. These fragments are not confined to beats, runs and riffs, but often contain longer, sometimes even recognizable extracts.  

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