Joseph Branciforte & Jozef Dumoulin: ITERAE

When entering ITERAE, we realize that it has already entered us. In this realm of post-glitch and digital bliss, an unsettling current draws us inward, threading its way through our attention until we no longer stand outside it. By the time orientation falters, we have already been absorbed into its matrix. This first collaboration between Joseph Branciforte and Jozef Dumoulin feels less like a beginning than a recognition, as though the music had been forming elsewhere long before it reached our ears. The eight-part work makes room for whatever meanings we bring to it, yet those meanings do not remain intact. They splinter, becoming granular, each shard holding its own quiet tremor. Although the sounds are free-flowing and, for all intents and purposes, “abstract,” something organic guides their unfolding. There is a sense of inevitability that breathes through the music, as if each gesture were the continuation of an unseen process. Both performers have examined the inner workings…