Joseph Branciforte

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Joseph Branciforte
Born (1985-06-11) June 11, 1985 (age 39)
Ramsey, New Jersey, U.S.
Genres Electronic • experimental • ambient • chamber music • jazz
Occupation(s)record producer, musician
Years active2010–present
Labelsgreyfade
Website josephbranciforte.com

Joseph Branciforte (born 1985) is an American musician, composer, record producer, and Grammy-winning recording engineer. He is the founder of the greyfade record label. [1]

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Biography

Branciforte grew up in a suburb of New York City studying drums and piano. He began experimenting with recording and electronic music at an early age, before attending Berklee College of Music to study Electronic Production and Design. [1]

After returning to New York, Branciforte began a career as a freelance recording engineer, working on albums for Ben Monder, Tim Berne, Vijay Iyer, Nels Cline, Craig Taborn, Mary Halvorson, Steve Lehman, and JACK Quartet, among others. [2]

In 2010, he formed the "garage-chamber" ensemble The Cellar and Point with guitarist Christopher Botta. The group's debut album, Ambit, which combined chamber writing for strings and vibraphone with experimental rock, jazz, and electronic elements, was issued in 2014 by Cuneiform. [1] All Music Guide called the album "one of 2014's finest albums of challenging, engaging, and genre-defying contemporary music." [3]

In 2019, Branciforte founded the greyfade record label to present work from artists exploring process-based composition, electronic and acoustic minimalism, and digitally-mediated improvisation. The label's inaugural release was LP1, a collaboration between vocalist Theo Bleckmann and Branciforte on modular synthesizer, Fender Rhodes, and electronic processing. [4] In 2021, Branciforte won Grammy and Latin Grammy awards for his engineering on Eliane Elias's Mirror Mirror with Chick Corea in the Best Latin Jazz Album category. [5] [6] He also collaborated with composer Kenneth Kirschner on an album featuring algorithmically composed pieces for chamber ensemble, From The Machine: Volume 1. [7] In 2023, Branciforte & Bleckmann released LP2, a follow-up and companion piece to LP1, which Popmatters called "a stunning experimental soundscape." [8]

In 2024, Branciforte arranged and produced Taylor Deupree's Sti.ll, an acoustic re-imagining of an earlier album of Deupree's. In its review of Sti.ll, Pitchfork said that Branciforte's arrangements "set out to do the impossible," transcribing the original album by "painstakingly isolating different frequency ranges for each track," and producing "a contemporary classical composition of arresting beauty." [9]

Albums

As performer

As arranger

As engineer and producer

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Buchanan, John D. "Joseph Branciforte: Biography". All Music Guide.
  2. ↑ "Joseph Branciforte: Credits". All Music Guide.
  3. ↑ Lynch, Dave. "The Cellar and Point: Ambit". All Music Guide.
  4. ↑ Cohan, Brad (26 July 2019). "Theo Bleckmann & Joseph Branciforte Investigate the Art of Ambient Improv". Downbeat.
  5. ↑ "Mirror Mirror". AllMusic.
  6. ↑ "64th Annual GRAMMY Awards". GRAMMY.com.
  7. ↑ Muller, Paul (2 June 2021). "Kenneth Kirschner & Joseph Branciforte: From the Machine Vol. 1". Sequenza 21.
  8. ↑ "Joseph Branciforte and Theo Bleckmann Create a Stunning Experimental Soundscpae". Popmatters.
  9. ↑ "Taylor Deupree: Sti.ll Album Review". Pitchfork.
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