The score for the video game Microtopia. Also available to download here: https://machinefabriek.bandcamp.com/album/microtopia-original-game-score

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Microtopia (original game score)

From the album 'Our Arms Grew Together (Music for a performance by Marta & Kim), released February 18 2022.

https://machinefabriek.bandcamp.com/album/our-arms-grew-together-music-for-a-performance-by-marta-kim

After 'As Much As It Is Worth' and 'Engel', Marta & Kim asked me to compose the music for yet another dance/circus performance, 'Our Arms Grew Together'. This release presents an edited version of that score, tailored to the album format.

The starting point of the 'Our Arms…' soundtrack was a series of home recordings that Marta and Kim made on my request. As the performance deals with their (romantic) relationship, it made sense to incorporate their daily lives in the music somehow. There’s the purring of their cat, a boiling coffee-pot, the chickens they keep, their wind chime, and much more. These intimate sounds are paired with glowing synth pads and vintage rhythm boxes. I think it definitly sounds more ‘synthy’ than you’re used to from me. There’s even a track (you can guess which one) that we dubbed ‘Blade Runner music’ when working on it…

Our Arms Grew Together (Music for a performance by Marta & Kim)

V–ing

Available as download and limited business card CDr:
https://machinefabriek.bandcamp.com/album/gruwel
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For streaming platforms:
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Music by RutgerZuydervelt 
Mastered by Marlon Wolterink at White Noise Studio
Original cover drawing by Minas Zuydervelt and Jetske de Boer

Gruwel

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From the EP 'Malheur' 

https://machinefabriek.bandcamp.com/album/malheur

Malheur

Rutger Zuydervelt – Malheur 1

Rutger Zuydervelt – Malheur 2

Rutger Zuydervelt – Malheur 3

Performed November 23 2014 at Le Guess Who?/Gaudeamus Drone Experience, TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht (NL). 

Hieke Dam: violin
Rani Kumar: alt violin
Ben Mathot: violin
Maarten Vos: cello
Rutger Zuydervelt: electronics

Recorded by the Concertzender.

Image taken from a video by Hyde Park (Kamiel Rongen), which was projected at the performance.

Halfslaap III was commissioned by Stichting Gaudeamus Muziekweek.

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Halfslaap III (with Maarten Vos' Fox String Quartet)

From the free download EP 'Wrevel'
Released 5 December 2024
on streaming services and bandcamp 
https://machinefabriek.bandcamp.com

Wrevel

Kletter

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Rutger Zuydervelt – Kletter

Preview edit of a 50-minute dance score (fully version released in September). 

The Wonder Of It All (mnusic for a performance by Daniel Linehan/Hiatus)

The Wonder Of It All

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The Wonder Of It All (single edit)

Live recordings from the gigs Nina Hitz (cello) and Rutger Zuydervelt (electronics) performed for 'Galm 750', during Open Monumentendagen, Schiedam, September 2025.

Sint Janskerk, 12 September 2025

Havenkerk, 13 September 2025, Set 1

Havenkerk, 13 September 2025, Set 2

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Static Jungle

Concrete Fields

Menu Music

Map Mode

Scrahara Desert

Blue Meadows

Tech Tree

Nuptial Flight

Toxic Wasteland

'Sileen' was composed by Rutger Zuydervelt as a commission by Musica for the festival OORtreders, 22 October 2016 (Neerpelt, Belgium). It was performed outdoors, with 50 students of the Academy for Music and Words in Mol.

Performers: Romy, Britt, Lotte, Kato, Anja, Ronald, Lina, Britt, Jens, Elien, Aïsha, Nomie, Michelle, Emma, Merel, Jo, tim, Sheena, Steffi, Fien, Nele, Eline, Margot, Emiel, Marie, Jolien, Lotte, Faith, Jhuana, Sep, Ward, Sofia, Ziva, Tuana, Marthe, Eefje, Lies, Charlize, Zarah, Tinne, Muriël, Barthel, Angelie, Adia, Robbe, Annelies, Joost and Rutger.

Recorded by Sharon Stewart and Ricardo Huisman
https://soundcloud.com/sharonrstewart
http://www.ricardohuisman.com/

Thanks to Bianca Van Roosbroeck, Esther Urseum, Gilles Helsen, Sharon Stewart and Ricardo Huisman.

Photo by Marc Ras.

Rutger Zuydervelt / Academie voor Muziek en Woord Mol - Sileen

From the Astroneer game soundtrack, available at
https://machinefabriek.bandcamp.com/album/astroneer-original-game-soundtrack

Astroneer (Original Game Soundtrack)

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Rutger Zuydervelt - Gameplay 1

Rutger Zuydervelt - Exploration 2

Rutger Zuydervelt - Gathering 3

Rutger Zuydervelt - Mineral Music

Taken from the album 'Astroneer (Original Game Soundtrack) Volume 2', released 15 December 2017.

This is the second volume of soundtrack music for the sci-fi video game Astroneer. Since the launch of the game's beta version (December last year), the team worked hard on making the game better, and expanding it. And with this expansion, a whole lot of additional music was needed. Of the 50 or so new themes, 18 were selected and edited to the tracks found on this new album. It’s available as download, on streaming platforms, and on a limited cd edition.

More about the game: https://astroneer.space/

Astroneer (Original Game Soundtrack) Volume 2

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Rutger Zuydervelt - Danger 3

Rutger Zuydervelt - Gathering 8

Rutger Zuydervelt - Cave 5

Rutger Zuydervelt - Exploration 7

Taken from the score for dance and circus performance 'Engel', by Marta Alstadsaeter and Kim-Jomi Fischer. Available here: https://machinefabriek.bandcamp.com/album/engel

Engel

Cradle

Preview of the album 'Luchtwezen'
SØVN Records, July 15 2020, cd/dl/stream
https://sovnrecords.bandcamp.com/album/luchtwezen
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Constructed by Rutger Zuydervelt, Rotterdam, February – April 2020
Rutger Zuydervelt: church organ (Oude Kerk Charlois), electronics
Berlinde Deman: serpent and vocals (recorded at home, Ghent)
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Many thanks to Lies Klaus, Gilbert van Drunen (Koffie & Ambacht),
Jaap van Gils, Stepping Stone, and SØVN records 
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Rutger Zuydervelt, a.k.a. Machinefabriek , needs no presentation to the ambient and drone audiences. (Hyper)active since the early 2000s, he epitomizes a minimalistic, electro-acoustic approach to these genres bringing together real world and synthetic oscillations. Berlinde Deman is a tuba player, and amongst many other projects member of the unconventional jazz big band Flat Earth Society.

In Luchtwezen, the two are brought together by a common veneration of the physical experience of the creation of sound. Both musicians each exploit on this record an unusual instrument: Rutger plays the Hess church organ of Oude Kerk Charlois, in south Rotterdam (together with some electronics); Berlinde sings, and plays the serpent, an ancient wind instrument, made out of wood and shaped like a snake. The meeting of the two should have taken place, as a matter of fact, in the Oude Kerk Charlois itself, during a live concert organized by Koffie & Ambacht. However, the quick rise to power of Covid-19 forced the duo to turn this get-together (as all musical get togethers during our quarantines) into a virtual one: a studio recording, that you can hear as Luchtwezen .

And yet, by just listening to the record, you may be fooled into thinking that this was a live recording - as we have all thought, because of their intensity, that some quarantine Zoom calls were not happening over a screen, but rather out there, in the real world. The flow is natural, the sound space unitary. The clicks of the organ keys are just right there in front of us. After the first brooding half, we all feel the mysterious, oriental breath flowing from the serpent in the spaces between us. And then, a simple melody sang by the organ reminds us of the feeling of excitement of going to a live concert - where you know that a serpent will dance to the sound of the organ's pipes.

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