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Dimensions: 314 × 314 × 8mm. Materials: die-cut laminated greyboard, archival case-wrapping. Media: 4× 80mm compact disc, 1× full-length compact disc. Electronic musician, composer, and conceptualist Joseph Branciforte joins pioneering Fender Rhodes artist Jozef Dumoulin on ITERAE, a compelling entry in the post-glitch canon. The album documents 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 modular sections hover between form and abstraction, precise sonic architecture and dream-like flow. ITERAE is issued as a bespoke multi-disc edition designed by Branciforte -- extending the music's own 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. 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. ITERAE is issued as a bespoke multi-disc edition designed for both shelf and wall -- referencing the domestic scale of the vinyl LP while quietly subverting its familiar expectations. The format embodies the album's structural logic in physical form: four paired movements (⊏/⊐) distributed 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. Each disc is housed within a die-cut matte greyboard panel. This outer layer is bonded to a rigid 4mm core, case-wrapped in white archival paper with a printed bottom spine -- allowing it to sit comfortably on a shelf alongside vinyl records. A full-length compact disc is included on the rear for universal playback, along with an integrated wall-hanging tab. Functioning both as a playable sound edition and sculptural object, the design reframes the album as a physical system.
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