Box Music, by Machinefabriek & Stephen Vitiello

Box Music

by Machinefabriek & Stephen Vitiello

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1.	Bells, Book, Tin Foil, Buttons 11:09	buy track
2.	Crackle Box, Tumb Piano 12:48	buy track
3.	Field Recordings, Rocks, Speakers 09:06	buy track
4.	Broken Record, Cassettes 08:46	buy track
5.	Chocolate Sprinkles, Tape, Egg Cutter, Rice, Plastic Bag 09:02	buy track

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Rutger and Stephen sort of accidentally met through e-mail. A simple note regarding an ordering question for a CD led to an enthusiastic e-mail conversation and climaxed in a musical collaboration. This all happened in a very short period, both musicians being very inspired by the concept of “exchange,” as a means to cross space and time -- Rutger living in the Netherlands and Stephen in Virginia. Most of the time, when (electronic) musicians work together it’s a matter of swapping digital files. In this case they decided to do something different and sent each other a box full of (mostly non-musical, or musically non-functional) objects and recordings, with the “assignment” to make music with those objects and all as source materials. As the titles tell, we’re talking about an egg cutter, thumb piano, a broken kraakle box, rice, chocolate sprinkles, old cassette tapes, a broken 7” record, etcetera, etcetera. Both musicians made two of their own solo tracks with the box they received, and the last track was done together by Rutger adding sounds and processing to a piece started by Stephen. For Rutger/Machinefabriek this is part of his most delicate work. For Stephen, it was a new and extremely enjoyable form of long-distance collaboration.

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released June 10, 2008

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12k is a New York based experimental music label run by artist Taylor Deupree that has decisively defined and developed its own concept of minimalism in the realms of experimental and ambient music since 1997.

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