EDITIONS MEGO
Three years after the original release date of Caterina Barbieri’s career defining album Ecstatic Computation on Editions Mego, the Italian artist reissues the record on her newly found own label light-years. The re-issue features an unreleased track available as digital download as well as a beautifully reworked version of the original cover art.
LIGHT-YEARS REISSUE
Three years after the original release date of Caterina Barbieri’s career defining album Ecstatic Computation on Editions Mego, the Italian artist reissues the record on her newly found own label light-years. The re-issue features an unreleased track available as digital download as well as a beautifully reworked version of the original cover art.
Ecstatic Computation revolves around the creative use of complex sequencing techniques and pattern-based operations to explore the artefacts of human perception and memory processes by ultimately inducing a sense of ecstasy and contemplation. Computation is turned from being a formal, automatic writing technique into a creative, psychedelic practice to generate temporal hallucinations. A state of trance and wonder where the perception of time is distorted and challenged.
Equally nervous and ecstatic, the fast permutation of patterns can create a state where time stands still whilst simultaneously being in motion. Is this propulsive music moving forward or backward? As long as the perception of the present is constantly enhanced and refreshed in an endless sense of loss, re-discovery and the search for self-orientation this question lies mute aside the thrilling and perplexing moment of the matter at hand.
Ecstatic Computation reissue on light-years is now available for pre-order as LP (black and silver), CD and digital.
LIGHT-YEARS REISSUE
RELEASE: MAY 4, 2019“Caterina Barbieri’s Ecstatic Computation took the world of deconstructed electronics to new heights. The sonics of trance, rave, minimal synth and electroacoustic composition were spun out into new forms on her Editions Mego debut after previous work on Important and XKatedral.” (Bleep)
“Caterina Barbieri’s Ecstatic Computation took the world of deconstructed electronics to new heights. The sonics of trance, rave, minimal synth and electroacoustic composition were spun out into new forms on her Editions Mego debut after previous work on Important and XKatedral.” (Bleep)
“Caterina Barbieri uses music to bend time and space around her. (...) It’s a warp-speed jump where everything seems to move slower and faster all at once." (Pitchfork)
“…wrangling titanic works out of her analogue synth setup that take the histrionic melancholy of the cheesiest 1998-era trance and make it weighty enough for a concert hall.”
(The Guardian)
"I am hard-pressed to think of any other artists that embody the balance of surgical exactitude and artistic vision as beautifully as Barbieri, as this album feels like the work of a hyper-intelligent android that has discovered human emotions and feels them quite intensely." (Brainwashed)
