Machinefabriek's "Bridges"

Bridges, the forthcoming Machinefabriek-curated improv project, has a piece featuring OE contributor Steven Hess (Fessenden, MALE, Hess/Tilmann). Here’s more about it from Machinefabriek’s site:

Bridges

A project with Gerco Hiddink.

“Gerco made a graphic design for a sleeve that didn't yet have music yet. An imagernary album. After a presentation of the design, an audience member suggested that I (Machinefabriek) could make the music for it. That sounded like a great plan, but instead of me composing pieces, we decided to take a different route, fitting to the concept of the design.

Gerco used photos of four different bridges. We visited these bridges again, now to make field recordings. These recordings were send to different improvisers, with the 'assignment' to react on it, with their instruments. Per bridge we asked two musicians. Instead of playing with eachother, they didn't know what the other would come up with. The ressemblance was that the other one also reacted on the same field recording. After the recordings we send to me, I mixed them, together with the field recordings.“

The duos that are on the Bridges album:

Jim Denley & Espen Reinertsen; Burkhard Beins & Jon Mueller; Mats Gustafsson & Nate Wooley; Erik Carlsson & Steven Hess