Joseph Branciforte

musician, producer, recording engineer

Joseph Branciforte (b. 1985) is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and Grammy award-winning recording engineer & producer based out of New York. He is the founder of the record label greyfade { https://www.greyfade.com }.

Branciforte's wide-ranging musical activity spans acoustic, electronic, and algorithmic composition, performance and improvisation on a variety of acoustic and electronic instruments, and an expansive discography as recording, mixing, and mastering engineer. At the bottom of each of these seemingly discrete threads lies a relentless fascination with sound as a profound emotional medium — organized through musical form, articulated by a careful selection of sound sources, and framed through the act of recording.

He has collaborated closely with artists including Theo Bleckmann, Ben Monder, Kenneth Kirschner, Taylor Deupree, and Jozef Dumoulin. As recording engineer, he has lent his talents to over 300 albums, working with some of the most respected names in jazz and creative music: Bill Frisell, Tim Berne, Vijay Iyer, Chick Corea, Nels Cline, Wadada Leo Smith, Craig Taborn, Marc Ribot, Steve Lehman, and The Westerlies.

In 2019, he founded the greyfade record label in order to present work from artists exploring process-based composition, electronic & acoustic minimalism, and alternative tuning systems. The label’s inaugural release was LP1, a collaboration between vocalist & sound artist Theo Bleckmann and Branciforte on modular synthesizer, Fender Rhodes, and live electronic processing. The album was included on All Music Guide's Best Electronic Music of 2019. Branciforte and Bleckmann followed up the album with LP2, released in December 2023 on greyfade.

He works primarily out of greyfade studio, his private recording, mixing, and mastering space just north of New York City.