13.11.2011
the recordings arrived of the performances that burkhard beins and dj sniff did (seperate and together) at the bridges presentation at worm rotterdam
the recordings arrived of the performances that burkhard beins and dj sniff did (seperate and together) at the bridges presentation at worm rotterdam
04.10.2011
scott mcmillan about bridges on the liminal website: machinefabriek, aka rutger zuyderfelt, has co-curated this bridge-themed compilation with visual artist gerco hiddink, bringing together eight musicians (four pairings of two) across its four lavishly decorated sides, lovely spinning zoetropes all. each pairing were given recordings made on location at four different bridges in the netherlands to which they were to react independently, and the results were then mixed together. they were, if you like, building the same bridge, but from opposite ends, only able to guess at what was going on at the other side, and hoping they would meet in the middle. and with a little luck, some sound creative instinct, and a bit of help in the mixing, they have pulled it off: the constructions are not just stable enough to bear weight, but enjoyable to cross. the musicians recruited into this project have reacted in interesting, different and complementary ways to the source materials... read more
scott mcmillan about bridges on the liminal website: machinefabriek, aka rutger zuyderfelt, has co-curated this bridge-themed compilation with visual artist gerco hiddink, bringing together eight musicians (four pairings of two) across its four lavishly decorated sides, lovely spinning zoetropes all. each pairing were given recordings made on location at four different bridges in the netherlands to which they were to react independently, and the results were then mixed together. they were, if you like, building the same bridge, but from opposite ends, only able to guess at what was going on at the other side, and hoping they would meet in the middle. and with a little luck, some sound creative instinct, and a bit of help in the mixing, they have pulled it off: the constructions are not just stable enough to bear weight, but enjoyable to cross. the musicians recruited into this project have reacted in interesting, different and complementary ways to the source materials... read more
30.09.2011
bridges presentation at worm rotterdam by rutger, gerco, burkhard beins and dj sniff.
photography: maaike van den heuvel and rutger
bridges presentation at worm rotterdam by rutger, gerco, burkhard beins and dj sniff.
photography: maaike van den heuvel and rutger
29.09.2011
oscar smit about the bridges presentation in amsterdam in gonzo (circus): de nijmeegse vormgever gerco hiddink en muzikant rutger zuydervelt (alias machinefabriek) praten uiterst onderhoudend over hun gezamenlijk project: twee fraai uitziende 12 inch picture discs getiteld ‘bridges’. aan de basis hiervan ligt een stelling die hiddink uitermate intrigeerde: kun je uitgaande van design ook muziek maken. anders gezegd zoek bij de vormgeving van je plaat passende muziek. zo zien we hiddink op zijn fiets een viertal bruggen bezoeken en filmen in zijn woonomgeving (nijmegen-sinderen). van de meest kenmerkende zaken van de bruggen heeft hij stills gemaakt en die concentrisch op de platenhoes aangebracht. maar ook op de picturedisc komen ze terug. nadat hij het ontwerp klaar had benaderde hij zuydervelt. deze bezocht op zijn beurt ook al de bruggen en maakte er fieldrecordings. deze stuurde hij, onbewerkt, naar een groot aantal (improvisatie) muzikanten als jim denley en jon mueller, met de vraag bij deze omgevingsgeluiden muziek te maken. zo ontstonden er een soort duo’s bestaande uit een muzikant en een brug. het bijzondere eindresultaat is schitterend verpakt in een tot 250 exemplaren gelimiteerde 12 inch verpakking. read more
oscar smit about the bridges presentation in amsterdam in gonzo (circus): de nijmeegse vormgever gerco hiddink en muzikant rutger zuydervelt (alias machinefabriek) praten uiterst onderhoudend over hun gezamenlijk project: twee fraai uitziende 12 inch picture discs getiteld ‘bridges’. aan de basis hiervan ligt een stelling die hiddink uitermate intrigeerde: kun je uitgaande van design ook muziek maken. anders gezegd zoek bij de vormgeving van je plaat passende muziek. zo zien we hiddink op zijn fiets een viertal bruggen bezoeken en filmen in zijn woonomgeving (nijmegen-sinderen). van de meest kenmerkende zaken van de bruggen heeft hij stills gemaakt en die concentrisch op de platenhoes aangebracht. maar ook op de picturedisc komen ze terug. nadat hij het ontwerp klaar had benaderde hij zuydervelt. deze bezocht op zijn beurt ook al de bruggen en maakte er fieldrecordings. deze stuurde hij, onbewerkt, naar een groot aantal (improvisatie) muzikanten als jim denley en jon mueller, met de vraag bij deze omgevingsgeluiden muziek te maken. zo ontstonden er een soort duo’s bestaande uit een muzikant en een brug. het bijzondere eindresultaat is schitterend verpakt in een tot 250 exemplaren gelimiteerde 12 inch verpakking. read more
28.09.2011
mrbungle about bridges: de prijs voor de mooiste verpakking wordt dit jaar al in september vergeven. bridges, een audiovisueel concept van de voormalige studiegenoten gerco hiddink en rutger zuydervelt (machinefabriek), gaat namelijk niet meer overtroffen worden. het is een waar genot om de loodzware gatefold platenhoes, gevuld met twee picturediscs, in handen te hebben. helemaal leuk wordt het wanneer het vinyl draait, als de vele kleine afbeeldingen (geplaatst in een ring) een zich herhalende film vormen. en dat op vier kanten. er staat trouwens ook nog muziek op... read more
mrbungle about bridges: de prijs voor de mooiste verpakking wordt dit jaar al in september vergeven. bridges, een audiovisueel concept van de voormalige studiegenoten gerco hiddink en rutger zuydervelt (machinefabriek), gaat namelijk niet meer overtroffen worden. het is een waar genot om de loodzware gatefold platenhoes, gevuld met twee picturediscs, in handen te hebben. helemaal leuk wordt het wanneer het vinyl draait, als de vele kleine afbeeldingen (geplaatst in een ring) een zich herhalende film vormen. en dat op vier kanten. er staat trouwens ook nog muziek op... read more
28.09.2011
bridges presentation at the patterns + pleasure festival in amsterdam by rutger and gerco.
bridges presentation at the patterns + pleasure festival in amsterdam by rutger and gerco.
28.09.2011
mike about bridges on the norman records website: this record is pretty mysterious! i've picked it out of the review pile because i liked the look of its outrageously elaborate packaging and totally gorgeous picture discs. pretty surprising to me that they'd go to such lengths to make it look this snazzy when it's only an edition of 250 but, well, i guess it'll make a couple of hundred people very happy. i'm struggling to find out much information about this, but as far as i can gather each side of this double lp contains a different duet between two giants of the experimental minimal improv scene... read more
mike about bridges on the norman records website: this record is pretty mysterious! i've picked it out of the review pile because i liked the look of its outrageously elaborate packaging and totally gorgeous picture discs. pretty surprising to me that they'd go to such lengths to make it look this snazzy when it's only an edition of 250 but, well, i guess it'll make a couple of hundred people very happy. i'm struggling to find out much information about this, but as far as i can gather each side of this double lp contains a different duet between two giants of the experimental minimal improv scene... read more
27.09.2011
frans de waard about bridges in vital weelkly:
images of this album have been shown around facebook, twitter and such like, and already met great acclaim and indeed: what a cover! so, what is it? not easy to tell. rutger zuydervelt, the fabriek that is a machine, recorded four different bridges between sinderen and nijmegen (ho! ho!) in the netherlands, along with visual material by designer gerco hiddink. he created a great visual work, which is displayed on the cover but also on the two picture discs themselves. a great visual thing. the field recordings were then passed onto eight musicians, all from the world of improvisation and asked to improvise along with the material and send it to zuydervelt, who then mixed all of it together, in pairs of two players at a time. quite a complicated scheme, i'd say, but the result is very nice. zuydervelt has grouped the players, so there are saxophones played by jim denley and espen reinertsen, percussion piece by burkhard beins and jon mueller, saxophone by mats gustafsson and trumpet by nate wooley, bass drum and crotales by erik carlsson along with drums and amplified roto tom by steven hess. not always the field recordings sound: they seem almost absent on the muller/beins side, but do play a big role on the one by denley/reinertsen, and in the carlsson/hess piece the many cars passing the nijmegen bridge are also considerably important. some of this playing, on all four sides, sound like they were done together, rather than separate. excellent work all around, some great music, excellent images, and a fine concept behind all of this. hard to tell who did what, and that's in this ego-world a great thing.
frans de waard about bridges in vital weelkly:
images of this album have been shown around facebook, twitter and such like, and already met great acclaim and indeed: what a cover! so, what is it? not easy to tell. rutger zuydervelt, the fabriek that is a machine, recorded four different bridges between sinderen and nijmegen (ho! ho!) in the netherlands, along with visual material by designer gerco hiddink. he created a great visual work, which is displayed on the cover but also on the two picture discs themselves. a great visual thing. the field recordings were then passed onto eight musicians, all from the world of improvisation and asked to improvise along with the material and send it to zuydervelt, who then mixed all of it together, in pairs of two players at a time. quite a complicated scheme, i'd say, but the result is very nice. zuydervelt has grouped the players, so there are saxophones played by jim denley and espen reinertsen, percussion piece by burkhard beins and jon mueller, saxophone by mats gustafsson and trumpet by nate wooley, bass drum and crotales by erik carlsson along with drums and amplified roto tom by steven hess. not always the field recordings sound: they seem almost absent on the muller/beins side, but do play a big role on the one by denley/reinertsen, and in the carlsson/hess piece the many cars passing the nijmegen bridge are also considerably important. some of this playing, on all four sides, sound like they were done together, rather than separate. excellent work all around, some great music, excellent images, and a fine concept behind all of this. hard to tell who did what, and that's in this ego-world a great thing.
13.09.2011
bridges is being shipped
bridges is being shipped
07.09.2011
bridges reviewed at boomkat: if there was an award for best looking record of the year, bridges would be coolly posing at the top of the list (...) the musicians didn't play together, instead providing separate reactions to the source material which was then mixed with the original recordings by zuydervelt and mastered by the esteemed giuseppe ielasi for optimal clarity. the results are vivid, dynamic documents of the life of, erm, four dutch bridges, but as you can probably gauge from the names involved, they're really quite special, and when coupled with the painstakingly edited zoetropic images on the picture disc, they've transformed something generally regarded as static and functionally commonplace, into an immersive, intriguing audio-visual environment to be enjoyed in your own home.
bridges reviewed at boomkat: if there was an award for best looking record of the year, bridges would be coolly posing at the top of the list (...) the musicians didn't play together, instead providing separate reactions to the source material which was then mixed with the original recordings by zuydervelt and mastered by the esteemed giuseppe ielasi for optimal clarity. the results are vivid, dynamic documents of the life of, erm, four dutch bridges, but as you can probably gauge from the names involved, they're really quite special, and when coupled with the painstakingly edited zoetropic images on the picture disc, they've transformed something generally regarded as static and functionally commonplace, into an immersive, intriguing audio-visual environment to be enjoyed in your own home.
22.08.2011
bridges numbered and waiting for the ink to dry...
bridges numbered and waiting for the ink to dry...
20.08.2011
nate wooley and jon mueller about bridges:
nate wooley and jon mueller about bridges:
18.08.2011
bridges has arrived!
bridges has arrived!
28.06.2011
test pressings for bridges have arrived!
test pressings for bridges have arrived!
30.06.2011
finetuning the artwork, making models
finetuning the artwork, making models
25.05.2011
rutger and gerco decide not to wait for a record label to be interested and release bridges themselves.
rutger and gerco decide not to wait for a record label to be interested and release bridges themselves.
22.06.2010
rutger and gerco drive again from nijmegen to sinderen to record the four bridges with better recording equipment.
rutger and gerco drive again from nijmegen to sinderen to record the four bridges with better recording equipment.
14.04.2010
rutger and gerco drive from nijmegen to sinderen to record the four bridges.
waal:
rhine:
netterden channel:
bergerslagbrook:
rutger and gerco drive from nijmegen to sinderen to record the four bridges.
waal:
rhine:
netterden channel:
bergerslagbrook:
spring.2010
gerco asks rutger to join in the bridges project. rutger is interested but has just released a mini-cd about the erasmus bridge in rotterdam. working on the bridges project the same way wouldn't be very challenging. but they decide to document by field recordings and see how that will work out.
gerco asks rutger to join in the bridges project. rutger is interested but has just released a mini-cd about the erasmus bridge in rotterdam. working on the bridges project the same way wouldn't be very challenging. but they decide to document by field recordings and see how that will work out.
18.02.2010
bridges is part of the ONcovered exposition at 'BNO tallks 02: design rocks!' in amsterdam.
bridges is part of the ONcovered exposition at 'BNO tallks 02: design rocks!' in amsterdam.
2009
bridges is part of the ONcovered travelling exposition at eurosonic/noorderslag, luxor live, paraplufabrieken, P60, patronaat, metropool and GDFB.
photography: productiehuis ON
bridges is part of the ONcovered travelling exposition at eurosonic/noorderslag, luxor live, paraplufabrieken, P60, patronaat, metropool and GDFB.
photography: productiehuis ON
15.04.2009
bridges presentation at broeikas in deventer by gerco (with lionel avignon and ton nieuwenhuis) and after the presentation someone (who?! contact us and you'll receive a free copy of the bridges lp!) comes up to gerco and suggests this would be a perfect project for machinefabriek to join in...
snapshots by valerie ardini
bridges presentation at broeikas in deventer by gerco (with lionel avignon and ton nieuwenhuis) and after the presentation someone (who?! contact us and you'll receive a free copy of the bridges lp!) comes up to gerco and suggests this would be a perfect project for machinefabriek to join in...
snapshots by valerie ardini
march.2009
gerco adds a map of the route to the design. click on the sleeves below to watch the animation (in flash):
gerco adds a map of the route to the design. click on the sleeves below to watch the animation (in flash):
15.11.2008
bridges is part of the ONcovered exposition 'papier hier' by grafisch papier in Amsterdam.
photography: productiehuis ON
bridges is part of the ONcovered exposition 'papier hier' by grafisch papier in Amsterdam.
photography: productiehuis ON
summer-autumn.2008
gerco: four bridges documented in a couple of hours of shakey video. i edit dozens of small filmploops per bridge. the exported stills I place in rings on the vinyl. and when the record is on the turntable the video comes alive again in stop-motion. as a moving photograhicscore, with suggestions of atmosphere, rhythm, hectics versus silence and fragments of lyrics. bridges between sound and vision. now It's up to the musician!
gerco: four bridges documented in a couple of hours of shakey video. i edit dozens of small filmploops per bridge. the exported stills I place in rings on the vinyl. and when the record is on the turntable the video comes alive again in stop-motion. as a moving photograhicscore, with suggestions of atmosphere, rhythm, hectics versus silence and fragments of lyrics. bridges between sound and vision. now It's up to the musician!
27.05.2008
gerco cycles from nijmegen to sinderen and films the bridge across the waal, the rhine, the netterden channel and the bergerslagbrook.
gerco cycles from nijmegen to sinderen and films the bridge across the waal, the rhine, the netterden channel and the bergerslagbrook.
gerco: not long afterwards. i get on my bicycle and leave our home in nijmegen. the first bridge is the one crossing the waal. with my videocamera I registrate details. pigeons in a row on the pale-grey ledges of the bridge, swirling water round the piles, declarations of love in graffiti: 'you are beautiful', 'I love you'. They could have been poplyrics. through ooijpolder and düffel I cycle on until the pink bridge looms up. she stands out in an unreal way against the clear blue sky. again, there's a message of love ('ich liebe dich auch') and a cryptic invitation ('aamstag + aonntag unter am rhein'). The faded red metalpaint is patched up here and there, the round screw caps are like giant nipples of metal.
gerco: i continue until I reach the drawbridge over the netterden border-channel. water and bridge are almost completely overgrown with green. the waterlevel is indicated by both german and dutch standard. when would this bridge have been drawn for the last time? in sinderen again. a few hundred meters further through some meadows, the small cattlebridge crosses the bergerslagbrook ('don't play by the waterside!'). the picturesque structure of halfly decayed railroad ties is now fixed in rough concrete. the cloads are floating in the water amongst the duckweed. nosey black- and red-pied cows stand at the edge.
spring.2008
when driving from nijmegen to sinderen, gerco passes the bridge across the rhine near emmerich (germany): maaike sits behind the wheel of our white fiat panda. the landscape of the achterhoek glides by. 'bocage' I once learned from my photograhy teacher. on the horizon appears the pink silhouette of the bridge over the rhine at emmerich. as a child my father used to take me on long bikerides, starting at our home in sinderen. sometimes we cycled on to the foot of the bridge, but we seldom crossed it. Most of the times we returned after a short break, seeking our way home via an alternative route. once this bridge marked the boundery of my world.
when driving from nijmegen to sinderen, gerco passes the bridge across the rhine near emmerich (germany): maaike sits behind the wheel of our white fiat panda. the landscape of the achterhoek glides by. 'bocage' I once learned from my photograhy teacher. on the horizon appears the pink silhouette of the bridge over the rhine at emmerich. as a child my father used to take me on long bikerides, starting at our home in sinderen. sometimes we cycled on to the foot of the bridge, but we seldom crossed it. Most of the times we returned after a short break, seeking our way home via an alternative route. once this bridge marked the boundery of my world.
spring.2008
gerco is invited to join the ONcovered project (initiated by productiehuis Oost Nederland): what if the process of making a record is turned around and the record starts with the sleeve design instead of the music?
gerco is invited to join the ONcovered project (initiated by productiehuis Oost Nederland): what if the process of making a record is turned around and the record starts with the sleeve design instead of the music?