https://caterinabarbieri.com Caterina Barbieri Thu, 22 Jan 2026 08:18:58 +0000 https://caterinabarbieri.com en https://caterinabarbieri.com/About Tue, 14 Jan 2020 14:57:43 +0000 Caterina Barbieri https://caterinabarbieri.com/About <img width="4151" height="5189" width_o="4151" height_o="5189" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b92b1164ef4b7e368315286d9e80031de876f4e01714f1b7df2967ebf6ef9e02/Caterina-Lampoon3099-copy.jpg" data-mid="233137887" border="0" data-scale="22" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b92b1164ef4b7e368315286d9e80031de876f4e01714f1b7df2967ebf6ef9e02/Caterina-Lampoon3099-copy.jpg" /> The musical vortexes of Caterina Barbieri rewire time and space. Listening to the Italian composer has felt like traveling at light-speed and slow-motion all at once since 2017’s breakthrough double-album Patterns Of Consciousness. 2019’s&nbsp;Ecstatic Computation&nbsp;pushed even further with the lead single “Fantas”, where a haunting melody hurtling towards its supernova climax felt like witnessing the life and death of a burning star. Far beyond any new age trope or modern synth trend, her music stands alone in its ecstatic intensity and cataclysmic emotional impact. BIO︎ INTERVIEWS︎ BOOKING OUTER PUBLISHING <img width="1200" height="1225" width_o="1200" height_o="1225" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8bd3a692c477b844b74099118369a72ea41e56adabb0c76079f74d3f2a3115c0/1200px-Warp_Records_logo.svg-WHITE.png" data-mid="68057093" border="0" data-scale="4" data-no-zoom data-icon-mode src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8bd3a692c477b844b74099118369a72ea41e56adabb0c76079f74d3f2a3115c0/1200px-Warp_Records_logo.svg-WHITE.png" /> GENERAL INFO PRESS MODERN MATTERS NEWSLETTERWEB DESIGN GLUQBAR https://caterinabarbieri.com/Bio Mon, 20 Apr 2020 15:36:59 +0000 Caterina Barbieri https://caterinabarbieri.com/Bio Since her breakthrough album Patterns of Consciousness (Important Records, 2017), Italian composer Caterina Barbieri has worked with vivid modular synthesis and expanded electro-acoustic formats to explore the physical and metaphysical effects of sound on the listener.&nbsp; Her music, described by Pitchfork as “a mind-altering journey” and “a dreammachine for the ears”, investigates the creative potential of computation and complex generative techniques to explore themes related to memory, time and phenomenology of perception, often interrogating states of trance, altered consciousness and emotional intensity. Barbieri’s albums have been met with growing critical acclaim: the razor-sharp contemplations of Ecstatic Computation (Editions Mego, 2019) where Barbieri “bends time and space around her” (Pitchfork), named as one of the best albums of the year by many international critical magazines; then Spirit Exit (light-years, 2022) which incorporates a bigger universe of sound: monumental and intimate, unerringly futuristic yet capable of evoking deep primeval energy, described by NPR as “deeply psychedelic and, by extension, subversive”; then Myuthafoo (light-years, 2023) “an instrumental set of controlled abandon and rapturous minimalism” (Pitchfork), recorded at the same time as Ecstatic Computation and based on the same generative techniques developed on the ER-101 modular sequencer. However, Barbieri’s probing electronics have never been confined by the album format. Her practice, informed by an education in classical guitar and electro-acoustic composition at the Conservatory of Bologna and Stockholm’s famed center for sound art, Elektronmusikstudion - where she recorded her first album “Vertical” (Important Records, 2014) for Buchla 200 and voice - relies on live performance as means of compositional development, as if it were a “living organism”, where sound is often in dialogue with light and video to create intense multi-sensorial experiences. In 2012 she earned her diploma in classical guitar with Walter Zanetti at the Conservatorio G.B. Martini in Bologna, where in 2014 she also earned a diploma in electroacoustic composition with Francesco Giomi after studying at the Royal College of Music and the Elektronmusikstudion in Stockholm. In 2015 she earned a degree in Modern Literature at the University of Bologna with a thesis in Ethnomusicology on the relationship between American minimalism and Hindustani classical music. In just a few short years Barbieri has performed at a slew of the world’s most respected music festivals, from Unsound and Atonal to Primavera Sound and Sonar, and has presented her work at prestigious venues including London's Barbican Centre, Biennale di Venezia, IRCAM and INA GRM, Berliner Festspiele, Haus Der Kunst in Münich, Mexico City’s Museo Anahuacalli, Ruhrtriennale, Philharmonie de Paris and Festival de Cannes, among many others. In 2021, Barbieri founded her own label light-years, creating not only a home for her own music but a platform for kindred, avant-garde spirits, focused on deep listening and the transformative power of music. As part of light-years, she has been invited to curate showcases by venues such as Pompidou, Southbank Centre and Berlin Atonal. 2022’s Spirit Exit full artistic vision was realised across a series of ambitious live performances in collaboration with visual artist Ruben Spini and lighting designer and scenographer Marcel Weber, where digital projection, fabric, and fog are meticulously arranged to create an immersive journey, one in which Barbieri and her iridescent music appeared to exist at the threshold of a new dawn. In 2024, Barbieri participated in the Venice Art Biennale with a music piece co-composed with Kali Malone for the Italian Pavilion and she has recently premiered her new work Womb in Paris, commissioned by IRCAM and Centre Pompidou for the 350 loudspeaker system at ESPRO. She has been recently appointed as Artistic Director for the Venice Music Biennale. In 2025, she composed the sound installation “Nest of Silence” for the garden of the Italian Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka on invitation of La Biennale di Venezia.She’s currently working on a new commission by La Philharmonie de Paris with the ONCEIM orchestra. <img width="6758" height="8448" width_o="6758" height_o="8448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b9c2ebab3c0061f81bed9df7309be49a3e2a624a58be4a86de7af3078ca3233/Caterina-Lampoon8762-2.jpeg" data-mid="233137928" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b9c2ebab3c0061f81bed9df7309be49a3e2a624a58be4a86de7af3078ca3233/Caterina-Lampoon8762-2.jpeg" /> Photography by Igor PjörtBOOKING OUTER PUBLISHING <img width="1200" height="1225" width_o="1200" height_o="1225" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8bd3a692c477b844b74099118369a72ea41e56adabb0c76079f74d3f2a3115c0/1200px-Warp_Records_logo.svg-WHITE.png" data-mid="68029155" border="0" data-scale="4" data-no-zoom data-icon-mode src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8bd3a692c477b844b74099118369a72ea41e56adabb0c76079f74d3f2a3115c0/1200px-Warp_Records_logo.svg-WHITE.png" /> GENERAL&nbsp; OUTER NEWSLETTERWEB DESIGN GLUQBAR https://caterinabarbieri.com/Music-old-2026 Tue, 19 Apr 2022 12:52:41 +0000 Caterina Barbieri https://caterinabarbieri.com/Music-old-2026 <img width="1540" height="1540" width_o="1540" height_o="1540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dd8571289b1929a8625e7e8f6f83ef12640a89c776c50dd0c09093b3a26d25c7/Artwork.png" data-mid="243788366" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dd8571289b1929a8625e7e8f6f83ef12640a89c776c50dd0c09093b3a26d25c7/Artwork.png" />AT SOURCE <img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/007f044e3278dd0077e5abc05958e4fa41c87f7e1472b23d55c2a6f02ea7bd7e/Myuthafoo_Artwork.png" data-mid="179068539" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/007f044e3278dd0077e5abc05958e4fa41c87f7e1472b23d55c2a6f02ea7bd7e/Myuthafoo_Artwork.png" />MYUTHAFOO <img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4eae9884db569237f5e9b3b3ad682580a78cc7da1d977166a1144f6f0144d330/Spirit-Exit.jpg" data-mid="140039854" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4eae9884db569237f5e9b3b3ad682580a78cc7da1d977166a1144f6f0144d330/Spirit-Exit.jpg" />SPIRIT EXIT <img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f9062b723dd9caa4add491f71f7eb864c65a6092c7d6fdcfdaba8636b26fd4b/Knot-of-Spirit_Artwork_Dasha-Kuznetsova-small.jpg" data-mid="140039434" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f9062b723dd9caa4add491f71f7eb864c65a6092c7d6fdcfdaba8636b26fd4b/Knot-of-Spirit_Artwork_Dasha-Kuznetsova-small.jpg" /> KNOT OF SPIRIT <img width="3988" height="3988" width_o="3988" height_o="3988" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ba7c7299a932f96c098239178f9bd6e4300dc73f6d4dc5bb5041cafe468733b/fullart_nologo.jpg" data-mid="140039433" border="0" alt="Fantas Variations" data-caption="Fantas Variations" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0ba7c7299a932f96c098239178f9bd6e4300dc73f6d4dc5bb5041cafe468733b/fullart_nologo.jpg" />FANTAS VARIATIONS <img width="1200" height="1200" width_o="1200" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2da9a70912c7c9b1b50e6c0d118675a0db22a6745269bc17c24e459dffa1577a/1.jpg" data-mid="140039420" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2da9a70912c7c9b1b50e6c0d118675a0db22a6745269bc17c24e459dffa1577a/1.jpg" />ECSTATIC COMPUTATION <img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6165d00317e8e58955eeacb5bf4a338fef5765ec894bc074cb5de7b224d107da/449NR.jpg" data-mid="140065966" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6165d00317e8e58955eeacb5bf4a338fef5765ec894bc074cb5de7b224d107da/449NR.jpg" />PATTERNS OF CONSCIOUSNESS <img width="600" height="600" width_o="600" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/303ac510e40e68dba825ec116882dcfaf60787218115928fb295caac4d96f35e/Born-Again-in-The-Voltage.jpg" data-mid="140039432" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/303ac510e40e68dba825ec116882dcfaf60787218115928fb295caac4d96f35e/Born-Again-in-The-Voltage.jpg" />BORN AGAIN IN THE VOLTAGE <img width="700" height="700" width_o="700" height_o="700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/edbbe2858b2ecdc48db0fa89ba0df8c825ccc6e0bb02b530e10c37ce0e7d9c26/a2361625883_16.jpg" data-mid="140039423" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/i/edbbe2858b2ecdc48db0fa89ba0df8c825ccc6e0bb02b530e10c37ce0e7d9c26/a2361625883_16.jpg" />VERTICAL <img width="700" height="700" width_o="700" height_o="700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c6775b6e9e25bc90eb4706433ac5eff352816870c748be7a729281a56f9bfdd6/a0049234548_16.jpg" data-mid="140039430" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/i/c6775b6e9e25bc90eb4706433ac5eff352816870c748be7a729281a56f9bfdd6/a0049234548_16.jpg" />PUNCTUM <img width="600" height="600" width_o="600" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06564bdaada152517e67a9b87bbc7c9994526552a670fad863bd6d4c6b4ad53a/R-9241336-1477214961-4973.jpeg.jpg" data-mid="140039424" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/06564bdaada152517e67a9b87bbc7c9994526552a670fad863bd6d4c6b4ad53a/R-9241336-1477214961-4973.jpeg.jpg" />GLORY https://caterinabarbieri.com/At-Source Thu, 22 Jan 2026 08:18:58 +0000 Caterina Barbieri https://caterinabarbieri.com/At-Source AT SOURCE light-years: ly009 Caterina Barbieri and Bendik Giske - At Source Order At SourceCaterina Barbieri &amp; Bendik Giske's At Source resounds music as wellspring, that which is essential and unknowable, and yet utterly primary. It finds two acclaimed composer-musicians building a world together in self-contained collaboration between analogue synthesis and an extended approach to the saxophone that conjures its own universe of sound. It is at once intimate and cosmic, drawing on the challenges and possibilities of their artistic exchange, tearing down technique to access all the expansive possibilities of their sonic meeting point. PRESS RELEASE <img width="1540" height="1540" width_o="1540" height_o="1540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b30e4ad700dddfa379fb0e727512dcb17727f0520389fd5c610e88555f569125/Artwork.png" data-mid="243788387" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b30e4ad700dddfa379fb0e727512dcb17727f0520389fd5c610e88555f569125/Artwork.png" /> <img width="2400" height="1700" width_o="2400" height_o="1700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a883633bf69c7aaf21a5fbc9963d673b474b7ae6912742e1e66114ec584f56c0/mockup1.png" data-mid="243788388" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a883633bf69c7aaf21a5fbc9963d673b474b7ae6912742e1e66114ec584f56c0/mockup1.png" /> <img width="2400" height="1700" width_o="2400" height_o="1700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1990ac9fb5ffbb6ed24c620053910fa008c1faf6e5e7e852608daf9d566e575d/mockup2.png" data-mid="243788389" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1990ac9fb5ffbb6ed24c620053910fa008c1faf6e5e7e852608daf9d566e575d/mockup2.png" /> <img width="3000" height="2250" width_o="3000" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6dcfa4d0840f8c6b1770fdf0a0d10c3929d6296b861815b3fb516055139ce3df/cd_mockup.png" data-mid="243788390" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6dcfa4d0840f8c6b1770fdf0a0d10c3929d6296b861815b3fb516055139ce3df/cd_mockup.png" /> https://caterinabarbieri.com/Myuthafoo Wed, 17 May 2023 14:14:47 +0000 Caterina Barbieri https://caterinabarbieri.com/Myuthafoo MYUTHAFOO light-years: ly003 Caterina Barbieri is set to release a sister album of her 2019's acclaimed “Ectatic Computation”. “Myuthafoo“ will be out on June 16. Available as LP (black and red), CD and digital.PRE-ORDER MYUTHAFOO"Myuthafoo" teases an ecosystem where technology and biology are intertwined, and where the past, present and future are part of the same essential narrative. Written at the same time as "Ecstatic Computation" and now presented as its sister album, “Myuthafoo” is based on the same creative sequencing processes that playfully unravel Barbieri’s deep-rooted interest in time, space, memory and emotion. Both cosmic and kosmische, this music gazes at the stars from an atemporal vantage point, relying on synapse-popping psychedelic logic as well as established physics." PRESS RELEASE“At her best, Barbieri doesn't just make music; a wizard, she excites the air" - Pitchfork “Caterina Barbieri twists the traditions of 20th century Minimalism into wiry, futuristic shapes.&nbsp; Myuthafoo draws the listener into a deceptively uncomfortable trance, an exploration of electronic music at its most mystical and alien.” - Bandcamp "Like laser beams intersecting in the night sky, the edges of melodic lines fray into the silence around them, shimmering with invisible energies out into the cosmos."&nbsp; - The Quietus <img width="2400" height="1700" width_o="2400" height_o="1700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e5a359f73c6b5e44cbd4b20c3447e66451b6b069f67b16ecd50948398b5bf30/MYUTHAFOO_black_alpha.png" data-mid="179532462" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1e5a359f73c6b5e44cbd4b20c3447e66451b6b069f67b16ecd50948398b5bf30/MYUTHAFOO_black_alpha.png" /> <img width="2400" height="1700" width_o="2400" height_o="1700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/002f4152b698f1e539f2f38bf90ddc382f415a4ebc37d711e6278354f61e2118/MYUTHAFOO_red_alpha.png" data-mid="179573792" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/002f4152b698f1e539f2f38bf90ddc382f415a4ebc37d711e6278354f61e2118/MYUTHAFOO_red_alpha.png" /> <img width="1959" height="1959" width_o="1959" height_o="1959" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c9a200c277690427a62f7792a86e7bdc1fab3ea4ccc2485cc30b120128787cc/MYUTHAFOO_CD_alpha.png" data-mid="179532464" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c9a200c277690427a62f7792a86e7bdc1fab3ea4ccc2485cc30b120128787cc/MYUTHAFOO_CD_alpha.png" /> <img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/007f044e3278dd0077e5abc05958e4fa41c87f7e1472b23d55c2a6f02ea7bd7e/Myuthafoo_Artwork.png" data-mid="179068524" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/007f044e3278dd0077e5abc05958e4fa41c87f7e1472b23d55c2a6f02ea7bd7e/Myuthafoo_Artwork.png" /> https://caterinabarbieri.com/Spirit-Exit Tue, 19 Apr 2022 13:41:31 +0000 Caterina Barbieri https://caterinabarbieri.com/Spirit-Exit SPIRIT EXIT light-years: ly001 ‘Spirit Exit’ is now out on light-years. Available on 2LP (Black and coloured vinyl versions), CD and digital. ORDER SPIRIT EXIT “The musical vortexes of Caterina Barbieri rewire time and space. Listening to the Italian composer and modular synth virtuoso has felt like traveling at light-speed and slow-motion all at once since 2017’s breakthrough double-album Patterns Of Consciousness. 2019’s acclaimed Ecstatic Computation pushed even further with the lead single “Fantas”, where a haunting melody hurtling towards its supernova climax felt like witnessing the life and death of a burning star. Far beyond any new age trope or modern synth trend, her music stands alone in its ecstatic intensity and cataclysmic emotional impact. Marking the debut album on her new label light-years, Barbieri now delivers her most profound work yet&nbsp; — a journey through inner-space as vast as a universe and as intimate as a heartbeat. The Spirit Exit opens and we fall in. “ PRESS RELEASE ︎︎︎“If there is a broader aim of Barbieri's work then it's to break the bonds of forces that all too often hold us in stasis, that keep us closed off from the world. Her music is deeply psychedelic and, by extension, subversive; like nature its effects can't quite be narrowed down or predicted.” - NPR For music that evokes empty clubs and shuttered churches, built on patterns dictated by a “mechanical fortune teller,” its humanity is its most haunting quality. — Pitchfork We can’t know where the spirit goes, but as Caterina Barbieri’s music continues to stretch towards new dimensions, the journey feels every bit as thrilling and blissful as the possible destination. — Electronic Sound [Spirit Exit] is Barbieri’s most personal album, one that draws on the transcendental structures of her earlier work while acting as an imprint of her own emotional state at the time. — Fact Mag On Spirit Exit, Barbieri is closer than ever to club territory and the ecstatic. — The Wire <img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4eae9884db569237f5e9b3b3ad682580a78cc7da1d977166a1144f6f0144d330/Spirit-Exit.jpg" data-mid="140043533" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4eae9884db569237f5e9b3b3ad682580a78cc7da1d977166a1144f6f0144d330/Spirit-Exit.jpg" /> https://caterinabarbieri.com/Knot-Of-Spirit Tue, 05 Oct 2021 14:46:52 +0000 Caterina Barbieri https://caterinabarbieri.com/Knot-Of-Spirit KNOT OF SPIRITlight-yearsCaterina Barbieri launches her new label platform light-years with the single release of “Knot of Spirit” featuring vocals by American artist Lyra Pramuk. The track functions like a statement of intent from the Italian composer and musician as she gestures towards the kind of enchanted and transmutational music-worlds that she will welcome onto the light-yearslabel.With a title evoking a metaphysical state of unresolved tension and enigma, “Knot of Spirit” blends synth and vocals into a sonic vertigo which oscillates alluringly between the mystical and the hallucinatory. Barbieri’s whirling, haunting synth patterns interweave with Pramuk’s other-worldly vocals into mirages of transcendence: time accelerates and decelerates in a trancelike spiral that erases any distinction between the inner and the outer worlds.Barbieri pairs the single with a surreal oil painting by Russian artist Dasha Kuznetsova. The artwork seems to emanate from that same subconscious underworld of spontaneous and unmediated emotionality which Barbieri can uniquely conjure at the heights of her musical powers. This is a work of catharsis, a dark descent into the ineffable with an explosive, poignant and uncontrolled finale, “Knot of Spirit” is an erratic journey of impassioned endurance with the handbrakes off.RELEASE: JULY&nbsp; 21,&nbsp; 2021Oil Painting by Dasha KuznetsovaHand embroidery lettering by TulpessVideo animation by Davide Busnelli. <img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f9062b723dd9caa4add491f71f7eb864c65a6092c7d6fdcfdaba8636b26fd4b/Knot-of-Spirit_Artwork_Dasha-Kuznetsova-small.jpg" data-mid="120764094" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f9062b723dd9caa4add491f71f7eb864c65a6092c7d6fdcfdaba8636b26fd4b/Knot-of-Spirit_Artwork_Dasha-Kuznetsova-small.jpg" /> https://caterinabarbieri.com/Fantas-Variations Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:26:37 +0000 Caterina Barbieri https://caterinabarbieri.com/Fantas-Variations FANTAS VARIATIONSEDITIONS MEGO&nbsp; &nbsp;Fantas Variations offers eight radically different re-interpretations of Barbieri’s synth classic Fantas (Ecstatic Computation, 2019) by a diverse mix of artists joining forces to celebrate the eternal transmutability of music at the intersection of the acoustic and the electronic. The original Fantas laid out a magical path of patterns leading the listener on a journey into the sound itself.&nbsp;Fantas Variations&nbsp;maps out eight new potentials sprung from this initial path as constructed by a mix of artists lending to a wide spectrum of new works extrapolated from the original work. For this project Barbieri invited friends and long time collaborators from a variety of musical backgrounds to create a more sustainable and inclusive landscape in terms of stylistic, geographical, gender and generational balance.&nbsp;Fantas Variations&nbsp;embraces a platform for mutual exchange and support between like-minded artists, where active and collective re-imagination is prioritised over the traditional model of remixes, which is often strategic, functional and more passive. Longtime friend and collaborator Kali Malone rearranged Fantas to a slowed-down, austere and eerie version for two Organs. Evelyn Saylor created a piece for a vocal ensemble consisting of her, Lyra Pramuk, Stine Janvin and Annie Garlid, joining forces to express the choral, psychedelic and vitalistic nature of the piece.&nbsp; Barbieri’s former guitar professor at the Conservatory in Bologna, Walter Zanetti, composes Fantas for electric guitar, by translating every single gesture of the original electronic piece into a personal, nuanced and detailed interpretation. Bendik Giske’s reinterpretation for Saxophone and Voice captures the atmospheric essence of Fantas and its psychic meteorology. Longtime collaborator and along with Barbieri the other half of the outfit Punctum, Carlo Maria, resynthesizes Fantas for TR808 and MC202, bringing a more club-oriented dimension of the piece to life whilst unveiling the sonic continuum between rhythm and pitch through a sensitive timbral approach. Jay Mitta’s Singeli reinterpretation of Fantas transpires with pitched-up percussion and turbo-fast polyrhythmic patterns unleashing the frenetic, shifting, transformative matter within the piece to a higher plain of euphoric dance. Baseck’s variation is a rave fantasia, where the prismatic trance of the original is channeled into fierce, uncompromising hardcore, whilst Kara-Lis Coverdale’s take is a phantasmagoria for piano that gently, yet inexorably, captures the relentlessness and chimerical qualities of the original, unveiling its spectral backbone. RELEASE: APRIL 2, 2021 “Fantas Variations is a superlative record that speaks to disparate audiences between experimental, classical and club circles. Across an hour of different reinterpretations, each contributor brings something unique to the altar, unified by Barbieri's imaginative vision. It's rare to see an artist continue to meaningfully draw so much emotion from the same stone.” (Resident Advisor) For 2LP vinyl orders please go here. <img width="3988" height="3988" width_o="3988" height_o="3988" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ba7c7299a932f96c098239178f9bd6e4300dc73f6d4dc5bb5041cafe468733b/fullart_nologo.jpg" data-mid="103753419" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0ba7c7299a932f96c098239178f9bd6e4300dc73f6d4dc5bb5041cafe468733b/fullart_nologo.jpg" /> https://caterinabarbieri.com/Ecstatic-Computation Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:00:30 +0000 Caterina Barbieri https://caterinabarbieri.com/Ecstatic-Computation ECSTATIC COMPUTATIONEDITIONS MEGOThree 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 &nbsp;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 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) <img width="2400" height="1700" width_o="2400" height_o="1700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0d549a1a7f8bed01ebf55341643096b994addd6db57bdd2ac24575cc830f0a09/EC_black_alpha.png" data-mid="179573880" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0d549a1a7f8bed01ebf55341643096b994addd6db57bdd2ac24575cc830f0a09/EC_black_alpha.png" /> <img width="1959" height="1959" width_o="1959" height_o="1959" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/312e0675632e920f8a44a523233bae1cf217a35f1165195af9586c4c7d0cc878/EC_CD_alpha.png" data-mid="179573879" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/312e0675632e920f8a44a523233bae1cf217a35f1165195af9586c4c7d0cc878/EC_CD_alpha.png" /> <img width="2400" height="1700" width_o="2400" height_o="1700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5318a3becc635dbb3540684a7a28e41cdef92d1b36a8f7d376b5f337b0167e9b/EC_silver_alpha.png" data-mid="179573876" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5318a3becc635dbb3540684a7a28e41cdef92d1b36a8f7d376b5f337b0167e9b/EC_silver_alpha.png" /> <img width="3000" height="3000" width_o="3000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ffbc84b36e0ea5eb08a33a519b0b502741287770f4aa04f11097c4926888b26/Caterina-Barbieri---Ecstatic-Computation.png" data-mid="68135899" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9ffbc84b36e0ea5eb08a33a519b0b502741287770f4aa04f11097c4926888b26/Caterina-Barbieri---Ecstatic-Computation.png" /> https://caterinabarbieri.com/Patterns-of-Consciousness Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:00:39 +0000 Caterina Barbieri https://caterinabarbieri.com/Patterns-of-Consciousness PATTERNS OF CONSCIOUSNESS&nbsp; IMPORTANT RECORDS Patterns Of Consciousness is the second full length album from Italian composer Caterina Barbieri. High resolution analog textures and algorithmic melodies unfold under Barbieri's careful control, exploring the basic nature of sound and consciousness. These pieces are minimal in arrangement but maximal in presence asserting Barbieri as a unique voice in contemporary electronic music composition. Scott Wilson at Fact Mag describes it as “a minimalist synth masterpiece that sounds as if every detail has been considered for the effect it will have on the listener”. “A pattern creates a certain state of consciousness” Caterina says. “Once it is created, the pattern stands as an object exactly like the sound waves which generate it. We are at the same time inside and outside of the object. While being it, we observe it. Over time we become familiar with the inner structure of the pattern. We decode its gravitational centres, where our psycho-motor attention is attracted, where everything seems to be drawn. When a change in the pattern occurs it causes a perturbation of the previously established field of forces. This causes consciousness to fracture, potentially unfolding layers of perceptions we weren't aware of or simply suggesting that we access only a fraction of our psychic potential. The layered nature of consciousness and the relativity of perception are some of the biggest secrets we can experience through sound.” RELEASE: MAY 5, 2017&nbsp; &nbsp; "...Few albums have hit us as hard as Caterina Barbieri’s 70-minute opus, Patterns Of Consciousness. On her debut full-length, Barbieri commands tsunami-height waves of arpeggiated analog synths (...) a starry synth epic that spins ambient, kosmiche, noise and drone into one powerful statement of intent. In more ways than one, it was the very definition of an Important record“ (Miles Bowe, FACT Mag) “Patterns of Consciousness found Barbieri employing light-speed arpeggios and repetitive synth melodies designed to scramble the listener’s sense of perception. The subtlest variations deliver an overwhelming impact, while mind-altering, algorithmically complex patterns allow her to play with perceptual expectations. But none of that immaculate math accounts for the cathartic and often deeply emotional weight Patterns shows in moments like 16-minute closer “Gravity That Binds.” (Pitchfork) "Caterina Barbieri's second album captivated listeners with her compositional mastery, rich analog textures and mathematical melodies, which transformed minimal arrangements into dazzling holographic shapes." (Resident Advisor) "It is extremely damn hard to establish a distinctive voice wielding only a synthesizer, but Barbieri has succeeded admirably at it. No one else sounds like this." 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