Nick Benavides - Recyclate

Recyclate - for Chamber Ensemble (Score and Parts) Composer's Note Hovor II is a 15 foot by 15 foot "tapestry" created by El Anatsui, a Ghanian artist living in Nigeria. El Anatsui is particularly intrigued by recycled materials, and this monumental work served as a basis forRecyclate. From a distance, the work appears to be frozen in a state of motion, one that is hard to capture with a two dimensional photograph. Upon closer inspection, it becomes obvious that eachindividual unit is actually a piece of foil from a liquor bottle. The style of weaving is inspired by kente, a traditional Asante or Ewe cloth. El Anatsui insists that this isn't necessarily African art, it's human art, as geographically based genres box in the potential impact of a work. Consumption and obsolescence are common to all cultures. Idecided to recycle fragments of pieces and sounds that have been bouncing around in my head for years, some are obvious, and some not so obvious, but altogether I think this “an