(repairs / i’m very grateful to have very minimal soldering skills as they’re enough to do a lot of basic repairs on audio equipment. today i replaced a dead VU meter on my @thisisapiaudio console with ease. if you love and use analog equipment in your studio and don’t know some basic soldering techniques i highly recommend picking some up. i’m fairly terrible at it (only about half of the eurorack modules i built from kits actually worked), but good enough to have avoided a ton of time and repair& shipping costs by fixing simple things myself. satisfying, too!)
(Sti.ll / out now / 2xLP orange vinyl / cover by marcus fischer / link in bio)
An elaborate, authoritative acoustic re-imagining of Taylor Deupree’s seminal electronic album Stil. (2002), Sti.ll is the result of a multi-year collaboration between Deupree and arranger/producer Joseph Branciforte to bring Deupree’s explorations of extreme repetition and stillness into the world of notated chamber music. Clarinet, vibraphone, cello, double bass, flute, and percussion stand in for the digital loops and granular processing of Deupree’s original, with meticulously notated arrangements preserving the all rhythmic, formal, and textural complexity of these compositions. Transcribed and arranged by Greyfade’s Joseph Branciforte and performed by an ensemble of notable New York creative musicians — Madison Greenstone, Ben Monder, Laura Cocks, Christopher Gross, and Sam Minaie, alongside Branciforte and Deupree themselves — Sti.ll is a landmark recording situated between the electronic and acoustic worlds.
Stil. (2002) written by Taylor Deupree Transcription & acoustic arrangements by Joseph Branciforte Produced by Joseph Branciforte Recorded at Greyfade Studio, Mount Vernon, NY Engineered by Joseph Branciforte Edited & mixed by Joseph Branciforte & Taylor Deupree at Greyfade Studio & 12k Mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12k
(Sti.ll live with madison greenstone (clarinets), ben monder (guitar), chris gross (cello) and joseph branciforte (vibraphone) and me live looping / public records, brooklyn, may22,2024 / photo by @tinafchan )
