Three Cellos, by Kenneth Kirschner

Three Cellos

by Kenneth Kirschner

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GREYFADE FOLIO

a 6.5 x 8" linen wrap hardcover book + high-resolution album download of Kenneth Kirschner's Three Cellos included inside the book.

hardcover book features essays, extended artist statements, reflections on process & technology, photography, and a selection of scores from Kenneth Kirschner's Three Cellos.

WHAT IS FOLIO?

FOLIO is a new greyfade music release format that sets out to answer the question: why release music in physical form today?

Equal parts album release, critical text, making-of narrative, study score, and collectible art object, the FOLIO format brings together what we believe to be the best of the physical and digital worlds.

Developed in collaboration with Penguin Random House art director and book designer Jason Booher, the intricately designed and carefully manufactured linen wrap hardcover editions will feature essays, extended artist statements, reflections on process and technology, data visualizations, music theory, photography, and musical scores – offering an unprecedented level of detail and insight into the music’s conception and creation. The included high-resolution music download is sourced directly from the studio masters, providing listeners with a digital listening experience of the highest quality and ownership of the music for years to come.

The FOLIO format represents a renewal of greyfade’s commitment to the continued relevance of both thoughtfully designed physical objects and high-resolution digital music, bringing greater context and depth to the label’s most ambitious musical projects.

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	1.	July 8, 2017 — i. 03:14
	2.	July 8, 2017 — ii. 03:10
	3.	July 8, 2017 — iii. 02:29
	4.	July 8, 2017 — vi. 03:43
	5.	July 8, 2017 — iv. 03:13
	6.	July 8, 2017 — v. 02:54
	7.	July 8, 2017 — ix. 04:59
	8.	July 8, 2017 — xi. 05:18
	9.	July 8, 2017 — xii. 04:15
	10.	July 8, 2017 — xiv. 07:33

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The inaugural release in Greyfade’s innovative new FOLIO music release format — a 6.5 x 8” hardcover book with included high-resolution music download (www.greyfade.com/folio) — is Kenneth Kirschner’s Three Cellos.

The culmination of five years of development, Three Cellos offers a detailed examination of the process, techniques, and experience of translating an intricate contrapuntal composition by Kirschner from its originally electronic form, into a notated score for cello, and finally into the finished suite of cello recordings included with the book.

Three Cellos began its life as a digital composition by Kirschner — July 8, 2017 — that played with algorithmic and generative techniques, while simultaneously keeping one eye on a more traditional image of instrumental counterpoint and harmony. Recognized by Greyfade founder Joseph Branciforte as a potential next step in Kirschner and Branciforte’s From the Machine series – an ongoing exploration into the integration of digital composition and instrumental chamber music – the musicians began a long journey toward adapting the digital piece into an acoustic arrangement and, finally, a studio recording.

Branciforte first undertook the task of translating Kirschner’s digital composition into traditional musical notation, painstakingly capturing the uniquely non-metric rhythmic sensibility of the original, while establishing a distinct new identity for the piece as an acoustic arrangement. The two then turned to cellist Christopher Gross as a sole performer to realize the multi-cello piece, layering his nuanced, emotional and intense performance over itself in the studio to create a unique recording that both captures and extends the composer’s original vision.

Like any complex artistic undertaking, the project had its setbacks and triumphs, all of which are detailed in the FOLIO edition of Three Cellos. The book features an extended narrative from Kirschner setting out the composition’s backstory, underlying processes and subsequent adaptation; an essay by Branciforte discussing the transcription of the piece and situating Kirschner’s work at the interface between digital and acoustic music; reflections on the recording process from Gross; a reproduction of two movements of the composition’s score; and photographs capturing various stages of the project’s development.

But the artists’ intention with the book, rather than a conventional act of documentation, is to create what they refer to as a “cookbook”: a text that will act not simply as an explanation or story of how the music was created, but as an active, generative set of instructions, processes and techniques – recipes – that they hope other artists will explore, learn from, and adapt within their own practices.

Renewing Greyfade’s commitment to the continued relevance of thoughtfully designed physical objects, Three Cellos offers not only beautiful, challenging and innovative music, but an inside look into the practices and struggles of deeply engaged contemporary artists as they push the boundaries of the possible in music today.

credits

released April 26, 2024

composed by kenneth kirschner
acoustic arrangement by joseph branciforte
cello performed by christopher gross

engineered, mixed, & mastered by joseph branciforte
recorded january 19, april 27, and may 12-13 2022 at greyfade studio
produced by kenneth kirschner & joseph branciforte

book series & cover design by jason booher
interior book design & typesetting by joseph branciforte
photography by taylor deupree
edited by joseph branciforte & kenneth kirschner

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Kenneth Kirschner Brooklyn, New York

Composer Kenneth Kirschner was born in 1970 and lives in New York City; his music is freely available at kennethkirschner.com

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