Reviews of Box Music [12k1048]

Curiosa collaborazione a distanza quella tra l’olandese Rutger Zuydervelt, in arte Machinefabriek, e l’americano Stephen Vitiello.

The real triumph of Box Music is the album’s incredible closing piece, a direct collaboration between both artists using chocolate sprinkles, rice, plastic bags, tape and an egg cutter.

Wanneer muziek de pure abstractie benadert en zich louter uit in niet-eenvoudig definieerbare klanken, wordt het haast onmogelijk de essentie ervan te vatten in woorden.

Sowohl Zuydervelt als auch Vitiello verstehen es gleichermaßen, aus ihren Wichtelmogelpackung eine spannungsgeladene, mal verrückte, mal ruhig flüsternde Klangtiefe zu schüren.

Il en ressort une |uvre ŕ quatre mains abstraite et tactile, nébuleuse et rampante, addictive par son contenu tout en retenue et en introversion suggérée.

A collaboration that makes perfect sense, but which came about in a most unusual manner.

Musically, it’s an extraordinary textbook example of the means justifying the ends — as well as the ends justifying the means.

All praise to Zuydervelt and Stephen Vitiello for making good on their inspired idea’s promise.

Very delicate sound processing going on here, subtle crackling of sound, the best of ambient glitch music.

Vitiello and Machinefabriek have come up with one of the finest recordings of food and kitchen implements this side of the 20th century. Creative, intriguing, and highly immersive..an absolute winner.

Rutger Zuydervelt, mes conegut com Machinefabriek, comparteix disc al segell 12k amb Stephen Vitiello en una collaboracio que ofereix resultats solids pero previsibles: investigacions experimentals fosques i denses ben formulades i executades.