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Field recording Febr 27 2026 at 2pm. Sounds from an exhibition.
“Noble rot is a natural phenomenon caused by a fungus called Botrytis cinerea. This fungus develops on grapes when the weather conditions are favorable, especially in autumn, with alternating periods of humidity and sunshine.”
Inspired by Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built.
Listen with headphones. 🎧
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Music by Machinefabriek
Mastered by Alex at quiet details studios
Artwork by quiet details in collaboration with Rutger Zuydervelt
Design by quiet details
© quiet details 2026 all rights reserved
For the next interpretation of quiet details, I have the pleasure of welcoming a true musical experimentalist, Rutger Zuydervelt, here as Machinefabriek.
Hailing from the Netherlands, Rutger has been active as Machinefabriek for over twenty years, releasing on highly regarded labels such as Western Vinyl, Type, Important, 12K, Entr’acte, Miasmah, Consouling Sounds, Eilean and Edition Wandelweiser. This, alongside many collaborations, music for film and dance, installations and live performances, has given him a place as one of the most admired artists working today.
Known for his ability to bring together various strands of musical exploration – from electro-acoustic, field recording, ambience, drone, sound art and minimalism – he has created something completely unique in the quiet details series
Lijnverkenning is an album of sparse and powerful textural beauty. Machinefabriek’s innate comprehension of the potential of sound to affect us in profound and unknowable ways.
This is an album where the personality of the machines dictated the direction of music – carefully and deftly guided by Rutger’s intuition and musicality.
There’s an exquisite subtlety throughout, layers of sound implying so much and the interplay creating something incredibly moving.
As Rutger says:
Of course I said yes when quiet details asked me to join their roster. I was playing Scanner’s Forces, Reactions, Deflections quite a bit at the time, and it inspired me to create my own take on the quiet details idea. I started working with cassette tapes and created a whole bunch of short, quite melodic compositions, but eventually decided they didn’t fit the label’s aesthetic, and definitely didn’t work in the long-form format that qt used for its CDs.
So I started anew, focusing on longer durations and moving toward a more free-form and intuitive direction. Taking time, letting my machines softly hum. In the process of creating the music, I think I found a strange form of intimacy within the sounds — as if eavesdropping on the ghosts inside the machines I was using.
The tracks here were mostly made by combining various layers of minimalistic improvisations with field recordings, oscillators, effect pedals, etc. I even hesitate to call these pieces “compositions,” because to me they feel more like entities that follow their own logic, rather than clearly defined and constructed songs.
Stemcassette is a different story. That track came to life after I used a short vocal sample taken from a tape I found in a second-hand memo recorder I had bought. It was filled with home recordings of rehearsals by an opera singer. A short, pitched-down snippet was used in the piece Lijnverkenning 3, but I couldn’t shake the idea of doing more with the sample. So I created the short Stemcassette from it, and felt it worked well as a mid-album “breather.”
Lijnverkenning means “line exploration.” It’s an expression I once saw marked on a public bus, presumably indicating a test of a new route. It’s a multifaceted word, with many connotations that also relate to the music. I hope listeners of this album will feel like explorers — Lijnverkenners — too.
Huge thanks to Rutger for this stunning addition to the series.
The artwork was made as always influenced by the music and idea behind the album – originating from a photo from Rutger which was then captured with analogue photography and processed here at quiet details studios.
As usual, the album is presented on the physical edition, a custom six-panel digipack with a separate fine art print too.
The CD also has a special long-form continuous mix of the album, created by the artist and representing the music in its purest form – highly recommended.
machinefabriek.bandcamp.com
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Jukka-Pekka Kervinen: music box, objects, sine tones
Markus Reineke: contrabass recorder, electronics, objects
Recorded in April 2025 in Finland and Germany.
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Marja Ahti is a Swedish artist living in Turku, Finland. She works with found sounds, objects and electronics, creating auditory assemblages that reveal a profound sensitivity to sound’s tactile potential. This new record sees her palette expand to include more recognisable acoustic instrumentation, albeit working in collaboration with musicians who are already reconfiguring how those instruments can sound.
Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth has its roots in a tape piece presented at Lampo in Chicago. Ahti then started working with Isak Hedtjärn (clarinet), Ryan Packard (percussion) and My Hellgren (cello) at the electronic music studios (EMS) in Stockholm. Incorporating recordings from those sessions, Ahti presented a new iteration of the work at the Seventh Edition Festival for Other Music in February 2024 with the trio performing live on stage whilst Ahti helmed the mixing desk, spatialising a specially made tape part through the INA GRM’s Acousmonium speaker orchestra. The piece has since gone through several further iterations before arriving at the version we have here on the LPs B-Side where immense bass pressure and high frequency tones buffer restless amplified breath and scrape that folds over itself with extraordinary dynamics and subterranean activity before giving way to gorgeous resonant forms and passages of ritual purpose and sheer, unmistakeable beauty.
The A-Side is Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth’s gentle double. Still Life with Poppies, Mirror and Two Clouds offers a companion reconfiguration of Ahti’s resynthesised percussion sustain and the same recordings of Hedtjärn and Hellgren from EMS, but here they’re nestled in a sonic landscape of calm and restraint that gives them a wholly other character. Ahti also draws on older recordings she’d made of Sholto Dobie’s diy pipe organs and uses these to create repeating patterns and flourishes of sliding pitches that emerge unexpected out of cycling passages of Ahti’s clear struck metal, destabilising electronic interventions and minimal piano figures.
Marja Ahti:
“I’ve been fascinated with the kind of elemental quality the sounds I’m using have such as airy sounds or earthy, wooden sounds. These qualities can also be found in wind instruments and percussion and the musicians I worked with on Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth are really good at enhancing these qualities in their playing. I wanted to have this connection between found sounds, field recordings, or pre-recorded sounds, objects, and material, and see where these sounds might meet each other, and hopefully blend is a natural way without a divide between instrumental music, or acoustic music, or electronic music.
But also, when you bring in people they come with their personalities and their ideas which is also energizing and brings surprising things into the collaboration that I couldn’t come up with myself. I was really interested in making this a proper collaboration and not just coming up with the piece and giving it to them. We had the sessions at EMS where we could share ideas and Isak, Ryan and My could bring in their own ideas. Making recordings there gave me time to process these ideas and to also approach them in the same way that I would work with any other sound.”
Marja Ahti: electronics, field recordings, idiophones, amplified objects, piano, bass harmonica
Isak Hedtjärn: clarinets
My Hellgren: cello
Ryan Packard: percussion
Composed, mixed and recorded by Marja Ahti.
Mastered and cut by Andreas [LUPO] Lubich.
Artwork by Maija Luutonen.
Layout by John Chantler.
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“No knowledge of where gone from. Nor of how. Nor of whom. None of whence come to. Partly to. Nor of how. Nor of whom. None of anything. Save dimly of having come to. Partly to. With dread of being again. Partly again. Somewhere again. Somehow again. Someone again”.
From “Ceiling” (1981), by Samuel Beckett
What will you do when confronted with nothingness?
On his sophomore effort “Accidental Meetings”, Evgeny Bylina meditates on this existential question. The album was created by chance while working on another record. Drawing inspiration from the prose of Samuel Beckett, this two-track tape laments the past, echoing the sound of the dance floor with its long, carefully constructed pieces.
These ambient compositions exist only as distant memories of a joyful past. The harsh reality of the morning urges you to look into the abyss hidden in the ceiling or wall. In a way, it’s a hungover record, reflecting an emotional and physical state of decadence: blurry and tranquil, it inverts the surroundings in the liminal space for a while.
However, it’s not just a dream: the heaviness of the environment reminds us that the body is not an abstract concept, but part of the world. Is there any hope? Or are we barely supported by fleeting nostalgia? Listeners must find the answer for themselves.
Words by Artem Makarskiy
Written and produced by Evgeny Bylina
Mastered by James Edward Armstong
Photos by Pier-Luc Tremblay
Layout by Anne-Julie-Dudemaine
Original painting “Circumcision” attributed to Giorgio Vasari (Oil on wood, about mid-16th c.)
©Florina Cassettes 2025
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Music by Robin Rimbaud
Mastered by Alex at quiet details studios
Artwork by quiet details in collaboration with Robin Rimbaud
Design by quiet details
© quiet details 2025 all rights reserved
Elated to welcome one of the most enduringly creative and boundary-pushing artists of the last few decades to quiet details, Robin Rimbaud, otherwise known as Scanner.
A towering figure in the worlds of music, sonic and visual art, dance, installation and a myriad of other disciplines – Robin has covered a huge amount of artistic ground since his earliest forays into our consciousness in 1991.
From countless albums and projects as a solo artist and in many collaborations, including the likes of Brian Ferry, Michale Nyman, Steve McQueen, Stella McCartney, Laurie Anderson and Hussein Chalayan, and Pauline Oliveros; to the first Sound Art commission at the Tate Modern London; scoring a dance piece for the UK Olympics; the list of his critically-acclaimed achievements goes on and on.
At the core of his work is always a deep curiosity, the ability to make cognitive leaps into the creative unknown and fashion something beautiful – it’s with this sense of wonder he’s made something truly incredible for quiet details.
The album is a stunning sonic exploration of the world around him, another fundamental element running through his work – realising the majesty contained within structures that has always been there, now brought to life.
As Robin says:
This album is forged entirely from the resonant clangs, echoes, and whispers of a stainless steel staircase at home, transforming everyday architecture into an unexpected orchestra.
By coaxing rhythm, tone, and atmosphere from the metallic body of a staircase, the work reimagines movement between floors as a passage through sound.
No synthesisers were used in the creation, only the natural sound of the staircase using a geophone seismic microphone and the gentle assistance of the occasional resonant filter and sample software.
This has led to an album of enveloping beauty – highly textured drones meet distant pulses; metallic fragments merge with hauntingly evocative melody. Physical architecture translated to harmonic structures in the most breathtaking way imaginable.
There’s so much to admire here – from the beauty of the original recordings to the highest level of craft to turn them into something so musically engaging – a true masterpiece from one of our finest artistic minds.
Huge thanks to Robin for being part of the series.
The artwork was made as always influenced by the music and idea behind the album – originating from a photo from Robin which was then captured with analogue photography and processed here at quiet details studios.
As usual, the album is presented on the physical edition, a custom six-panel digipack with a separate fine art print too.
The CD also has a special long-form continuous mix of the album, created by the artist and representing the music in its purest form.
scanner.bandcamp.com
Label Description: Field Recordings taking on Sao Miguel Island Azores February 2024.
Baritone and Bass Guitar drones recorded winter and fall of 2024.
Mixed and mastered by nd dentico in East Montpelier Vermont Winter 2025.
Label Description: the feeling when you find a new abandoned place and start to explore it.
everything is so calm, yet still the normal surroundings are quite disturbing.
Label Description: An experimental collage of sonic textures, calm, fragmented, and deeply meditative. An exploration that drifts through layers of sound, inviting stillness and introspection.
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