Machinefabriek is the musical nom de plume of Rutger Zuyderveldt from The Netherlands. As Machinefabriek, Zuyderveldt makes electronic music influenced by drone

Drone music

Drone music is a minimalist musical style that emphasizes the use of sustained or repeated sounds, notes, or tone-clusters – called drones. It is typically characterized by lengthy audio programs with relatively slight harmonic variations throughout each piece compared to other musics...

, classical ambient

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

 and noise

Noise music

Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...

, ranging from very silent work (such as his releases 'Stofstuk' and 'Loops for Voerman') to loud, noisy soundscapes (e.g. 'Piepshow' and 'Slovensko') and from quite dramatic work (his collaborations with Soccer Committee) to more playful music (e.g. 'Lenteliedjes' released on Type Records). His discography encompasses more than 50 releases, most of which are self-released, but he has also released on labels such as 12k

12k

12k is an independent record label, based in Pound Ridge, New York, USA. It was founded on January 1, 1997 by Taylor Deupree. The label focuses on experimental electronic music, specifically on digital minimalism and contemporary forms; as of January 2007, it has released over 40 CDs and become one...

, Eat, Sleep, Repeat

Eat, Sleep, Repeat

Eat, Sleep, Repeat is the 3rd full length release from Lakeland, Florida's Copeland. It was recorded at Glow in the Dark in Atlanta during June and July 2006. "We always said that we would only consider working with a label that was passionate about our band and our music, and the folks at Columbia...

, Type Records and Staalplaat

Staalplaat

Staalplaat is an independent record label that is located in Amsterdam with a separate store in Berlin. Created in 1982, the company's mission was created as a sound forum for sound artists, who write and perform new and experimental music...

. Zuyderveldt has collaborated, on record or on stage, with a large number of musicians including Stephen Vitiello

Stephen Vitiello

Stephen Vitiello is a visual and sound artist. Originally a punk guitarist he is influenced by video artist Nam June Paik who he worked with after meeting in 1991...

 (released in 2008 by 12k

12k

12k is an independent record label, based in Pound Ridge, New York, USA. It was founded on January 1, 1997 by Taylor Deupree. The label focuses on experimental electronic music, specifically on digital minimalism and contemporary forms; as of January 2007, it has released over 40 CDs and become one...

), Jasper TX, Frans de Waard, Soccer Committee, Steinbrüchel, Peter Broderick

Peter Broderick

Peter Broderick is an American musician and composer from Carlton, Oregon. He has released solo material under his own name, been a member of Efterklang, and played with several ensembles as a session musician.-Biography:...

 and Richard Skelton

Richard Skelton

-Biography:Richard Skelton is a British musician. Following the death of his wife Louise in 2004, he began to make music as a way of coming to terms with the tragedy. Using a number of instruments, notably guitar and violin, his music has been compared to Arvo Pärt amongst others...

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Solo recordings

• "Lenteliedjes" (2006, Type Recordings, mini-CD-R, 7")
• "Marijn" (2007, Lampse/Burning World Recordings, CD, LP)
• "Bijeen" (2007, Kning Disk, CD)
• "Dauw" (2008, Dekorder, CD)

Beginning in September 2004 and continuing at least into 2008, Zuyderveldt released an 8 cm CD-R

CD-R

A CD-R is a variation of the Compact Disc invented by Philips and Sony. CD-R is a Write Once Read Many optical medium, though the whole disk does not have to be entirely written in the same session....

with new music each month.

Collaborations

• "Cello Recycling | Cello Drowning" with Aaron Martin (2007, Type Records, CD, 10")
• "Box Music" with Stephen Vitiello (2008, 12k, CD)
• "Blank Grey Canvas Sky" with Peter Broderick (2009, Fang Bomb, CD, LP, mp3)
• "Glisten" with Tim Catlin (2009, Low Point, CD)

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