joseph branciforte & jozef dumoulin
ITERAE
catalog 011
release 17 april 2026
duration 68:05
formats multi-disc edition + digital
edition 300
joseph branciforte fender rhodes, electronics, live editing
jozef dumoulin fender rhodes, electronics
Electronic musician, composer, and conceptualist Joseph Branciforte joins pioneering Fender Rhodes artist Jozef Dumoulin on ITERAE, an acutely focused musical dialogue between two artists who have reimagined not only the sonic possibilities of amplified keyboard instruments, but the potential of technology to shape musical improvisation. Spanning 70 minutes, its eight continuous sections hover between form and abstraction, precise sonic architecture and dream-like flow.
ITERAE is issued as a multi-disc edition at the scale of a vinyl LP. The album’s material is distributed across four 80mm compact discs (plus a full-length CD for continuous playback), extending the music’s structural logic into physical form.
ITERAE links two performers from opposite sides of the Atlantic known for their transformations of Fender Rhodes electric piano. Jozef Dumoulin is a Belgian keyboardist recognized for his role in redefining the Fender Rhodes as a 21st-century instrument, forging a highly personal musical language through extensive electronic manipulation. Joseph Branciforte is a composer, producer, and fellow Rhodes experimentalist known for bridging acoustic and electronic worlds in collaborations with Theo Bleckmann, Taylor Deupree, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Both performers are fluent improvisers, with musical vocabularies drawing broadly from jazz, electronic, and contemporary music.
Here, however, the focus is squarely on distillation: small fragments captured, transformed, and recombined into cascading, lattice-like structures. The result is a sound that merges aspects of the early glitch movement with bold explorations of harmony and form—weaving together threads from modern classical, electroacoustic, and ambient to create something decisively of the present.
Recorded over two days in New York, ITERAE captures the artists' first ever musical encounter—a fact belied by the depth of their interaction.
The performances center around two separate Rhodes pianos, each artist applying his own array of processing and effects. In addition to sound generation, Branciforte harnesses a custom live editing system—designed to process both musicians' outputs in real time. This software allows him to capture and reconfigure musical material on the fly, creating architectural patterns and layers from small details within the unfolding improvisation.
The music unfolds with an unbroken focus and sense of direction, dense tapestries of glitches giving way to moments of deeply intuitive, harmonic convergence. The juxtaposition of open-ended improvisation and the precise, methodical compositional vision for which Branciforte is known creates a dynamic interplay, where flow and memory, improviser and editor remain in constant dialogue.
At 70 minutes, the release is one of the longest in either artist’s catalogue. This expansive format allows for a panoramic listening experience, where textural and motivic ideas accrue, dissolve, and reappear across extended timescales. “Usually, I favor concision in recorded works,” notes Branciforte. “The logic of the way these pieces unfolded demanded a larger canvas.”
The result is music shaped by sonic openness, patient listening, and long-range compositional thinking in equal measure—with technology serving as the medium through which these forces converge. ITERAE may be the clearest articulation yet of the balance between immediacy and structural depth that has come to define both artists’ approaches.
recorded at greyfade studio
mixed & mastered by joseph branciforte at greyfade studio
ABOUT THE PHYSICAL EDITION
ITERAE is issued as a multi-disc edition designed for both shelf and wall—referencing the scale of the vinyl LP while subverting its familiar expectations.
The format distributes the album's four paired movements (⊏/⊐) across four 80mm compact discs. Each disc can be played independently or sequenced freely, extending the music's own recursive methodology into its physical presentation. A full-sized compact disc is included on the rear for continuous playback.
The design incorporates an integrated rear wall-hanging tab for display as a fixed visual work. The playback medium itself is treated as a sculptural form, reframing the album as a physical system—a site of logic rather than nostalgia.
The discs themselves are housed within a precision die-cut matte greyboard display panel, bonded to a rigid 4mm case-wrapped core with a printed bottom spine, allowing the object to sit comfortably on a shelf alongside vinyl records.
The edition continues Greyfade’s broader investigation into format as a locus of creative activity. Like FOLIO, this format proposes a different way of presenting and living with sound, treating the physical object as an active component of the work: something that occupies space, encodes logic, and persists in silence.
DIMENSIONS 314 × 314 × 8mm
MATERIALS die-cut laminated greyboard, archival case-wrapping, protective outer poly bag
MEDIA 4× 80mm compact disc, 1× full-sized compact disc
DESIGN Joseph Branciforte
press:
IGLOO (US): Best of 2026 There are albums you admire, and albums you return to because they alter your perception. ITERAE belongs firmly in the latter category. There is a sense that something rare is unfolding, a meeting of minds and methods so fully realized that it feels inevitable. In a year already filled with excellent releases, ITERAE rises above through its clarity of vision and fearless execution. It is one of those recordings that reminds you why you listen in the first place. (read more)
BRAINWASHED (US): An album of the year candidate. Immersive, hallucinatory, and legitimately sophisticated—beautifully blurring the lines between Oval-style glitchery, Bitches Brew dark magic, and the otherworldly dissonances of Morton Feldman. A landmark release. (read more)
THE WIRE (UK): A fascinating array of processing. Fragmentary, repeating, arrhythmic—and about as far from 1970s Herbie Hancock as it's possible to imagine. (read more)
POPMATTERS (US): A stunning accomplishment—and a testament to that ethos of high-end musical quality you can hold in your hand. (read more)
THE MODERNS (US): The finest interplay we've heard in the genre since Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto. World-class performances with a deeply insightful understanding of the genre's potential. (read more)
PAN M 360 (CA): One of the most beautiful avant-garde albums you could ever listen to. (read more)
BANDCAMP (US): Incredible and absorbing, ITERAE is a minimalist piece that surrounds you completely, haunting with its elongated tones.
PHILIP SHERBURNE / FUTURISM RESTATED (SP): Jewel-toned chords glisten against a soft-focus blur of back-masked streaks and textured crackle; consonance and dissonance hover in a magnetic push-and-pull. (read more)
ECM REVIEWS (US): Each shift of color, light, and texture feels intentional—repetition carrying a quiet sense of ritual that feels open rather than doctrinal. Their attention turns toward the interstices, the fine cracks where detail becomes a form of revelation. (read more)
PURPOSEFUL LISTENING / TIM RUTHERFORD-JOHNSON (UK): Branciforte and Dumoulin engage with their machines and circuits openly and playfully. There is a distinctly human undercurrent here, a burbling, almost pastoral tenderness. Don’t miss this. (read more)
AN EARFUL (US): Two masters of the Rhodes electric piano weaving glitches, chords, and other bright noises into a 70-minute festival of texture. As is typical for Greyfade, the packaging is special. (read more)
WNYC’S NEW SOUNDS: A collection of works in a style that mixes glitch electronica with an ambient minimalist cast. (read more)
MEANS MAGAZINE (UK): A masterful blend of the cohesive and the incongruous. ITERAE teases out a breathtaking array of sonic potential from the keys, like listening to a hundred shades from the same colour palette. Branciforte & Dumoulin succeed in producing something rich with contradictions: clinical and yet warm, fractured and yet deeply calming. (read more)
INNER MAGAZINE (FI): This is music for the mind, music for closed eyes in a dark room. A continuum that intentionally progresses in time, interrupted by cracks, clicks, chords, bells, wobble: distortions in a perfect harmony. (read more)
CD HOTLIST (US): Quiet, repetitive, process-based, and sometimes evocative of distinctly analog sound phenomena. All of it hits that perfect but elusive balance: equal parts soothing, disconcerting, and structurally interesting. (read more)
ALL ABOUT JAZZ (US): A vivid soundscape as slow and striking as a glacier. The analogue warmth of the Rhodes is stretched and slowed until it feels like a kind of crystalline cocoon. In headphones, the enveloping ambience fills the ears and practically zaps straight to the brain. (read more)
LOOP (CL): Branciforte and Dumoulin re-envision [the Fender Rhodes] as a futuristic tool, pushing its boundaries through the use of error and fragmentation as deliberate textures—designed to oscillate and interact with the underlying harmony. Reflecting the label’s signature ethos, the album design features a striking minimalist aesthetic that mirrors the precise musicality within. (read more)
SOMETHING ELSE! (US): An endlessly fascinating assemblage of artificial sounds rooted in human artistic instincts, warped with the limitless sound reconstruction of electronic alteration. (read more)
SALT PEANUTS (NO): An instantly composed, yet carefully layered and looped, eight-movement suite of post-minimalist, post-ambient, post-drone, post-noise, and post-glitch sounds. Branciforte and Dumoulin sound as an inseparable, futurist sonic entity, flirting with fleeting melodic themes, distortion, fragmented noises, and arrhythmic pulses. (read more)
BORING LIKE A DRILL (UK): The small amplified sounds of a Rhodes piano quickly lose their resemblance to the conventional instrument. Large-scale developments emerge out of small elements in near-stasis. Even in its crunchiest moments the musicians always retain suggestions of melody, without ever breaking into full-blown song or all-out noise. (read more)
DATA.WAVE (RU): Invites close attention, revealing a dense network of micro-events and subtle sonic shifts beneath its calm surface. (read more)
THE NEW NOISE (IT): The boundaries between live performance and electroacoustic composition blur, arriving at a hybrid solution that reveals an entirely new face of the Fender Rhodes. The surgical precision with which the sonic material has been manipulated and assembled is impressive. The physical edition transforms the album into a modular system freely controlled by the listener. (read more)
joseph branciforte
Joseph Branciforte (b. 1985) is a musician, composer, designer, and sound artist whose work explores the intersection of structured systems and emergent phenomena through custom-built technology. He works fluidly across performance, composition, and installation in both acoustic and electronic mediums.
jozef dumoulin
Jozef Dumoulin is a Belgian composer, pianist, and electronic musician whose work has fundamentally redefined the expressive and sonic possibilities of the Fender Rhodes electric piano. Dumoulin approaches the Rhodes not as a nostalgic artifact but as a living, mutable system—capable of a vast textural palette, harmonic openness, and moments of fragile instability.