taylor deupree
sti.ll
catalog 008
release 17 may 2024
duration 40:53
formats FOLIO + digital
edition 100
acoustic arrangements by joseph branciforte
laura cocks / flute
madison greenstone / clarinet, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet
christopher gross / cello
sam minaie / upright bass
ben monder / acoustic guitar
joseph branciforte / vibraphone, percussion
taylor deupree / lap harp, percussion
The second release in Greyfade’s innovative new FOLIO music release format—a 6.5 x 8” linen hardcover book with included digital music download—is Taylor Deupree’s Sti.ll.
An elaborate, authoritative acoustic re-imagining of 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 acoustic performance.
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Meticulously reconstructed and scored by Branciforte for an ensemble of clarinet, vibraphone, cello, double bass, flute, guitar, and percussion, the album approaches the rhythmic, textural, and formal complexity of Deupree's original through purely acoustic means, transposing the digital repetition of Stil. into a distinctive chamber music setting.
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 brings the tactility and emphasis on imperfection characteristic of Deupree’s later albums to one of his most austere, process-based early works.
Greyfade’s FOLIO edition of Sti.ll features an introduction by Pitchfork’s Philip Sherburne, essays by Deupree, Branciforte, and Greenstone reflecting on the album’s conception and creation, a complete reproduction of Branciforte’s arrangements in full score, studio photography by Deupree, and digital downloads of both Sti.ll and the original Stil.—forming a comprehensive, completist’s guide to Deupree’s Stil. and its most recent transformations.
stil. (2002) composed by taylor deupree
transcription & acoustic arrangements by joseph branciforte
produced by joseph branciforte
recorded at greyfade studio, mount vernon, new york, us
engineered by joseph brancifortee
edited and mixed by joseph branciforte & taylor deupree
mastered by taylor deupree at 12k mastering
book cover design by jason booher
book interior design & layout by joseph branciforte
photography by taylor deupree
AMBIENT BLOG (NL): Remarkably, the arrangements stay true to the original tracks, maintaining the same sequence and durations. Thus, it becomes particularly intriguing to juxtapose both albums and observe how Deupree‘s ‘exploration of extreme repetitions and stillness’ translates into the realm of acoustic performance. (read more)
DATA.WAVE (US): Branciforte and musicians manage to retain the character and mood of Deupree’s early masterpiece. At the same time, it’s not a formal reproduction of electronic music by acoustic instruments, but an independent neo-classical and ambient work, full of different sound textures, minimalistic rhythmic elements and beautiful atmospheres.
taylor deupree
Taylor Deupree is an accomplished sound artist whose recordings, rich with abstract atmospherics, have appeared on numerous record labels, and well as in site-specific installations at such institutions as the ICC (Tokyo, Japan) and the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (Yamaguchi, Japan). He started out, in the 1990s, making new noises that edged outward toward the fringes of techno, and in time he found his own path to follow. His music today emphasizes a hybrid of natural sounds and technological mediation. It’s marked by a deep attention to stillness, to an almost desperate near-silence. His passion for the studio as a recording instrument is paramount in his work, but there is no hint of digital idolatry. If anything, his music shows a marked attention to the aesthetics of error and the imperfect beauty of nature, to the short circuits not only in technological systems but in human perception.
