Bredbeddle is Rebecca Lee, an artist, composer and musician based in Nottingham, UK.
Across two albums as Bredbeddle, ‘Steps on the Turning Year’ (Bezirk, 2021) and ‘Stackes’ (Fractal Meat Cuts, 2017) her work merges composition and collage. Fragments from her record collection, found sounds and diaristic recordings become parts of a score, building blocks to be written onto a timeline to create something new. While perhaps reminiscent of plunderphonics aesthetically, there is a musicality and narrative coherence to her songs that is distinct from an aleatoric or poetic montaging of sounds.
Strands of harmony and melody, of similarity and juxtaposition, are pulled from unexpected places. Held up for contemplation and then strung together into intricate pieces. Often manifesting as long-form, durational compositions, Bredbeddle’s process is rooted in seeing archives as a launching off point. Recorded material as a site of potential rather than an end point frozen in time and context.
“…a skewed prism, giving interesting and often poignant new perspectives on recognizable sounds, breathing a new essence into the familiar,” - Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis
“Haunted retro-futurists might draw comparisons with The Focus Group, others might imagine ‘Revolution 9’ assembled as a Fifth Form music project on a snowy Tuesday afternoon in 1981. Either way, it’s an evocative triumph from an artist who expertly turns distressed vinyl into distinctly affecting moods,” - Bob Fischer, Electronic Sound
https://bezirk.bandcamp.com/album/steps-on-the-turning-year
https://www.rebeccalee.info/
