Stuck in the Loop

"British philosopher Mark Fisher infamously stated that no new music has been made since the 2000s. Music innovation, a constant modernist driver of the sense of the future, has also stagnated, leaving behind only 20th-century aesthetics and samples reused in the 21st century.

Instead of mourning the future, Annebel Breij explores different conceptions of newness by creating an endless loop that keeps sampling itself. Using various recording and sampling machines from multiple sources and time eras, the sounds are deconstructed, re-layered, and reconnected with new ones. As the sounds evolve into unrecognisable shapes through endless copying and re-playing, the concept of newness is deconstructed and expanded beyond familiar forms, proposing that the sense of the future is not created by an aesthetic but through practice, play, and reproduction."