"Machinefabriek is the alias of Rutger Zuydervelt. Rutger's music combines elements of ambient, noise, minimalism, drone, field recordings and electro-acoustic experiments. His pieces can be heard as an attempt to create sonic environments for the listener to dwell in. Finding tension in texture, tone and timing, the result can be very minimalistic at first glance, but reveals itself upon closer listening. The devil is in the details.

Rutger was born in 1978 in Apeldoorn (The Netherlands) and now resides in Rotterdam. He started recording as Machinefabriek in 2004. After a series of self released cd-rs, his official debut Marijn was issued in 2006, with great critical acclaim. Since than, a solid stream of music was released on labels such as Type, Important, Home Normal, 12K, Entr'acte, Dekorder, Miasmah, Consouling Sounds, Experimedia and Staalplaat. He performed all over the globe, from Canada to Israel and from Russia to Japan.

Rutger collaborated (on record and/or live) with numerous artists, such as Steinbrüchel, Jaap Blonk, Aaron Martin, Peter Broderick, Frans de Waard, Mats Gustafsson, Steve Roden, Gareth Davis, Stephen Vitiello, Michel Banabila, Dirk Serries and Dead Neanderthals, amongst many others.

He frequently works with film makers, like Makino Takashi, Mike Hoolboom, John Price, Paul Clipson and Chris Teerink, for whom he composed a soundtrack for his documentary about Sol LeWitt. Rutger also recorded the music for the Canadian drama The Cold and the Quiet from 2014. Furthermore, his music was used in Edward Burtynsky's Watermark, the drama Stone (with Robert DeNiro and Edward Norton) and Josh Fox' influential Gasland and Gasland Part II documentaries. Besides films, Rutger also composes music for dance pieces, like Alix Eynaudi and Kris Verdonck's EXIT (premiéred at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin), Alexander Whitley's The Measures Taken (for the Royal Opera in London) and Beheld (for Candoco Dance Company), and multiple pieces by Spanish/Dutch choreographer Iván Pérez. Then there's Rutgers installation work, in which the dialogue with the environment plays an important role. He did projects for Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NAi (Dutch Architecture Institute), the new Armando Museum MOA, Sounds Like Audio Art in Saskatoon (Canada), the Into the Great Wide Open Festival, Netwerk in Aalst (Belgium) and children's museum Villa Zebra in Rotterdam."

German sculptor, instrument maker and sound artist Hannes Fessmann is known for creating and performing with resonant stone instruments, or Klangsteine, developed in collaboration with his father Klaus Fessmann. His work explores the physical, spatial and perceptual qualities of sound through beautifully rendered stone forms that function as musical instruments.

Klaus Fessmann, also credited as Klaus Feßmann, is a German pianist, composer, sound artist and emeritus professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Since discovering the sonic potential of resonant stones in 1987, he has developed a body of work around Klangsteine, combining sculptural sound sources, composition, performance and research into the tactile and meditative qualities of stone resonance.

Rick Sanders is a Dutch composer and producer of electronic music based in Nijmegen, creating work that blends ambient, experimental and generative approaches. His contribution to Machinefabriek's Samen appears through synths on "Merg", a collaborative track with Rutger Zuydervelt first issued through Dronarivm's Illuminations III compilation.

Alden Penner is a Canadian musician, songwriter and producer best known as a founding member of the influential Montreal indie group The Unicorns, later continuing with Clues and solo projects. His work ranges across indie rock, art-pop and experimental song forms, and he contributes additional vocals to Machinefabriek's "Zinder" alongside Rie Mitsutake.

Rie Mitsutake is a Japanese musician and vocalist whose work began in the early 2000s through intimate home-recording projects. She has released solo music as Miko, worked in the duo Oh, Yoko with Will Long, and developed a delicate cross-border approach rooted in electronica, voice and understated songcraft; on Samen, she appears with Alden Penner on "Zinder".