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previous artist: machine for making sense		there are 8 titles featuring machinefabriek in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: machinegun warfare

~~$15.96~~
... on sale for only ::
$11.86

new to stock as of
february 8th, 2012

threads:
modern-composition
free-improvisation
minimalism-drones
digital-musics

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dekorder (germany) #dekorder 56 lp

machinefabriek / gareth davis “ghost lanes” long playing record

ghost lanes
mackerel sky

august 2011 release ; ... vinyl issue of the first & most recent collaborative improvisations between contrabass clarinet player gareth davis & guitarist / composer rutger “machinefabriek” zuydervelt ...

dekorder press release...

[056]
machinefabriek & gareth davis
ghost lanes
lp

ghost lanes (the a side) was recorded during the first ever duo session that gareth and rutger had, at steim, amsterdam, june 2009. the two hadn't met before, but immediately there was a strange chemistry between them, and without much discussion, it was plug-in and play, and two albums and an ep were recorded. ghost lanes was then released as a very limited 3-inch cdr.

a year and a half later, they settled at steim again, for another fruitful session. that's when mackerel sky was recorded. a perfect match with the a-side of this vinyl and a cumulation of their shared progress.

gareth and rutger's music is all improvised. the slow paced pieces combine the rough loopings of rutger's guitar with the low-end rumblings of gareth's contrabass clarinet. a perfect soundtrack for some weird underwater world.

~~$14.28~~
... on sale for only ::
$10.61

back in stock as of
february 8th, 2012

first in stock on
october 9th, 2008

threads:
minimalism-drones
electro-acoustic-composition
guitar-themed
digital-musics

spring cleaning !!!

dekorder (germany) #dekorder 29 cd

machinefabriek “dauw” compact disc

porselein (7:03)
fonograaf (3:27)
engineer (6:11)
dauw (5:17)
singel (25:12)

october 2008 release ; you know, i’m really starting to come around re: this zuydervelt fellow ... this is an impeccable set of pieces, really nicely done waves of drone-sound with tons of added crackle & almost imperceivable background movement, rife with the same sorts of “off-center” vibrato / warble that made us all fawn over those boards of canada records all those years back ...

dekorder press release...

[029] machinefabriek "dauw" cd

machinefabriek is the alias for rutger zuydervelt currently residing in rotterdam, the netherlands. since 2004 zuydervelt has unleashed an uncountable number of self-released 3"cd's (his format of choice) in lovingly designed sleeves (all made by himself). in the past years some of these releases have been compiled into amazing albums such as "slaapzucht" on the root strata label, "weleer" on lampse, the "cello recycling" 10"/cd on type records and "bijeen" on kning disk. recent collaborations with stephen vietiello (on the 12k label), freiband, steinbrüchel and other likeminded artists have expanded the horizon veritably. machinefabriek's music has been remixed by the likes of xela, lesser, svarte greiner, alva noto, pita, kim cascone, ben frost, black to comm and others.

only few machinefabriek material has been recorded specifically for an album release but these have always been stand-outs in the vast catalogue. both "marijn" on lampse and "ranonkel" on burning world records were classic recordings, squeezing a large amount of what people love about zuydervelt's music into one album, at the same time giving him the space to expand on new ideas. likewise "dauw" is one of zuydervelt's most subtle & quiet yet refined works. mainly built around small but gorgeous melodies of piano and guitar playing and the crackling sound of dusty vinyl samples, these songs slowly build into intensive hymn-like angel choirs of sheer heavenly beauty.

zuydervelt's output often has drawn comparisons to the likes of fennesz, godspeed, arvo pärt, basinski, tim hecker, phillip jeck, mogwai and earth, which is certainly not all wrong and some of these have been influences in the early stages of his career but he has since developed a strong and individual language all of his own.

mastered by giuseppe ielasi with elegant artwork by zuydervelt himself; metallic print on grey cardboard stock.

$7.01

back in stock as of
november 2nd, 2009

first in stock on
october 25th, 2008

threads:
guitar-themed
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones

ketchup cavern (canada) #kc 04 ep

machinefabriek “huiswerk” seven inch single record

huiswerk (1) (3:58)
huiswerk (2) (4:22)

october 2008 release ; a pair of lovely lazy-day guitar pieces from mr. zuydervelt, in his inimitable style ...

ketchup cavern press release...

machinefabriek
huiswerk

catalog number: kc04
format: 7"

the same day i bought a second-hand boss dr. sampler i connected my guitar to it and recorded the basic material for these two 4-minute tracks. less drone, more composed. a bit like my huis ep i guess, that's (partly) why the title hints to that. it's machinefabriek's more playful side.

limited to 500 copies , packaged in a full color offset-printed glue pocket sleeve designed by rutger.

$17.36

new to stock as of
april 7th, 2008

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones
folk

low point (uk) #lp 019 cd

freiband / machinefabriek “oahu” compact disc

martin luiten - oahu 1 (1:23)
freiband & machinefabriek - oahu 2.1 (21:52)
freiband & machinefabriek - oahu 2.2 (19:56)

... i have to admit that i’ve been (unfairly) avoiding mr. zuydervelt’s work in relation to the mms stock-pool ; mainly as, in the grand scheme of “the prolifics” - he’s right up there w/the merzbows & lópez’s of this world (& the next) ... but then recently i’ve had the chance to sit down & investigate his work and, lo and behold, for the larger part, it’s pretty great ; near-static walls of digital sound w/hints of fennesz-lineage chord-shapes almost post-rock progressions ...

this collab. w/frans de waard is certainly no exception, a pair of extended “remixes” of a 1-minute solo hawaiian slack-key guitar piece by martin luiten - touching on similar themes as the recent (and just as excellent) m.b. / jozef van wissem duet ... very nice stuff ...

low point press release...

freiband & machinefabriek - oahu

‘oahu’ is a collaborative release between dutch sound artists freiband (the latest project of frans de waard, founder of the korm plastics label and member of kapotte muziek, beequeen and goem to name but three) and machinefabriek (the prolific rutger zuydervelt).

the genesis of the project was a 90 second recording of improvised acoustic lapsteel (the oahu of the title) played by martin luiten. from this initial recording, segments of music, each lasting 30 seconds in length, were created then passed back and forth between de waard and zuydervelt over a period of four months for further processing, editing and refinement. finally, with a collection of 20 of these segments, each artist composed their own 20 minute mix using these pieces.

though the nature of processing and reprocessing applied to the initial recording of the lapsteel makes it at times almost unrecognisable, the harmonic and melodic essence of the instrument is retained and utilised throughout. and whilst unified by the source material at their disposal, these two tracks have a distinct feel and identity that manage to perfectly encapsulate the work of both artists.

cd packaged in a matt printed digipak case. ltd edition of 450 copies.

~~$7.56~~
... on sale for only ::
$5.62

new to stock as of
june 7th, 2011

threads:
minimalism-drones
electro-acoustic-composition
concert-recordings
digital-musics

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my own little label (netherlands) #moll 035 cd

machinefabriek / freiband “kilauea” three inch compact disc-recordable

kilauea (20:37)

2010 release ; ... a live recording of a collaborative set between frans de waard & rutger zuydervelt ...

my own little label press release...

035 machinefabriek & freiband - kilauea

on february 14th 2010 machinefabriek and frans de waard played each a solo concert at berlin's rote salon. afterwards they played a collaborative concert as machinefabriek and freiband. taking the material from their previous collaboration a bit further, adding new sounds to the whole.

$16.51

new to stock as of
october 9th, 2012

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
electro-acoustic-improvisation
free-improvisation
modern-composition
minimalism-drones

room40 (australia) #rm446 cd

andrea belfi “wege” compact disc

a (14:12)
b (14:50)
c (2:20)
d (7:55)

september 2012 release ; ... quite nice set of pointillist percussion pieces from the italian composer andrea belfi, using a real-time assistive improvisation system that “automatically” maps tiny fragments into a narrative whole ...

room40 press release...

andrea belfi - wege (cd)
rm446
room40

wege translates as ‘path’ and it’s a fitting title for the latest rendering from master percussionist and experimental composer andrea belfi. the albums’ four pieces act as orientation points through some imaginary sonic landscape.

wege is belfi’s fourth lp (the first with room40), and stems entirely from compositions completed at two artist-in-residence projects in austria (hotel pupik) and in brussels (q-o2 werkplatz). the album is built around a cyclic electro-acoustic system, through which belfi has developed a complex musical network of possibilities.

with this electro-acoustic system, influenced in part by steve reich’s ‘pendulum music’, wege’s four pieces revolve around spiraling interconnections of synthesizer, feedback and drums.

belfi explains further:

this device creates feedbacks on two drums on my drum kit, and i can modify it by stopping and stretching the drum skins with hands and various kinds of sticks, mallets and brushes, and/or by filtering the feedback with an a modular synthesizer.

edited in a quiet apartment in greifswald (germany) a small town on the baltic sea, the record bears marks of the stillness of the surroundings in which it was finalised. there is a sense of hushed awe and a subtle reference to the wind swept coldness of the landscape in these pieces.

wege is mastered and mixed by giuseppe ielasi.

$14.51

back in stock as of
april 17th, 2013

first in stock on
october 1st, 2007

threads:
minimalism-drones
digital-musics
modern-composition

type (uk) #type 029 cd

aaron martin / machinefabriek “cello recycling / cello drowning” compact disc

cello recycling (11:41)
cello drowning (10:11)

type press release...

aaron martin & machinefabriek : cello recycling/cello drowning

a blistering collaboration between two experimental music behemoths. jet engine drone and symphonic ambience combine in one of our most gorgeous explorations of the genre to date...

rutger zuydervelt, a man better known to the experimental music world as machinefabriek is somewhat prolific; a fact you might have gathered from his steady flow of super-limited edition 3” cdrs which seem to slip out relentlessly month after month. american multi-instrumentalist aaron martin is possibly less productive only having one full-length album to his name so far, but he is no less intriguing and between them the duo have come up with a project which is far more than the sum of its parts.

the ‘cello recycling’ project was originally commissioned for use in an art gallery; zuydervelt took cello improvisations from aaron martin and built them into the slow-burning post-ambient monster that is ‘cello recycling’. however here we see the original piece accompanied by aaron martin’s take on rutger’s work, where he ‘drowns’ the original piece in a bath of murky water taking into submerged directions it has never before drifted. the two pieces together are perfectly complimentary showing two sides to a tarnished coin – one giving us pent up emotion, fizzing and shuffling awkwardly until it explodes majestically, the other giving us peaceful reflection as seen through the eyes of a serial killer who has just completed his final gift to the world. an inventive and incredibly beautiful look at the cello as an instrument and noise making tool; this is an absolute must for fans of post-classical music, the droning beauty of stars of the lid or even the moody post rock of godspeed you! black emperor. moody, kinetic and hugely enjoyable stuff, this needs to be played loud and absorbed totally…

$16.56

back in stock as of
march 29th, 2010

first in stock on
november 4th, 2009

threads:
site-specific
sound-art
electro-acoustic-composition
harsh-noise
minimalism-drones
plunder-phonic
sound-poetry
schimpfluch-gruppe
experimental-instruments

best of 2009 !!!

universaal kunst (netherlands) #mh 01 cd
lokaal 01 (netherlands) #lp-cd 02 cd

“geluidpost” double compact disc-recordable set

machinefabriek - cello recycling (11:47)
janek schaefer - come on up... (19:00)
rudolf eb.er's runzelstirn & gurgelstøck - schlechte musik (10:19)
merzbow - bloody sea of taiji. stop the mass slaughter of dolphine in japan. (9:37)
(ad)vance(d) - 4chairs+bats (10:47)
studenten sonologie - phonography (11:36)
steve roden - to these four horizons (14:00)
francisco lópez - untitled #0908 (10:17)
staplerfahrer - mode of perception (12:47)

october 2009 release ; neat fold-out double-disc edition covering a series of pieces curated by martijn hohmann for a “listening room at art gallery lokaal01” in breda, nl ...

the set ships flat (actually smaller than your average dorado gatefold) but opens up like so ::

some great work here, including all-exclusive pieces from machinefabriek (crackly, cheap-reverb plugin rework of aaron martin’s cello), janek schaefer (neat, plunderphonic flamenco piece), runzelstirn & gurgelstøck (classic, aktion-heavy rudolf), merzbow (washing-machine rhythms into a synth blow-out) ...

... then (ad)vance(d) (formant-filter drones & assorted static), justin bennett’s students (ground-hum rich field recording overlay), steve roden (automatic-feeling mystery clank & reed drones - get lost in the long sound-sample), francisco lópez (rainforest hiss), and staplerfahrer (grainy, noisy grisple) ...

most pieces hover around the 10-minute mark, as such there’s enough room for them to say what they need to without feeling hurried ... as site-specific compilations go this one’s a keeper ; highly recommended !!!

universaal kunst press release...

various artists - geluidpost 2cdr

featuring exclusive tracks by:
machinefabriek
janek schaefer
rudolf eb.er
merzbow
(ad)vance(d)
sonologie studenten
steve roden
francisco lopez
staplerfahrer

geluidpost (sound post in dutch) is a listening room at art gallery lokaal01 breda the netherlands.
it's basically a room with a three-seat sofa and a set of speakers.
you can't get any closer to the primary principle of listening..
every two months a soundartist or composer is invited to create a new piece for geluidpost.
during 2007 and 2008 geluidpost was curated by martijn hohmann.
all nine works created during this period are compiled on this 2cdr.
it's limited to 250 copies. nice multi-foldout cover.

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