{"title":"Caterina Barbieri","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaterina Barbieri is an Italian composer and musician hailing from Bologna. With a background in analog and digital synthesis, she has established herself as a prominent figure in the field of minimalism. Formerly residing in Berlin, Caterina now calls Milan her home base for creating mesmerizing musical compositions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDriven by her passion for exploring the possibilities of sound, Caterina combines both traditional and contemporary techniques to craft unique sonic landscapes that captivate listeners. Her innovative approach to music production has garnered critical acclaim and earned her a dedicated following within the electronic music community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith each composition, Caterina invites audiences on a transformative journey through intricate patterns and evolving textures. Her mastery of synthesizers allows her to create immersive auditory experiences that push boundaries and challenge conventional notions of what music can be.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"spirit-exit","title":"Spirit Exit","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 doublealbum 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 — a journey through inner-space as vast as a universe and as intimate as a heartbeat. \u003ci\u003eThe Spirit Exit \u003c\/i\u003eopens and we fall in.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpirit Exit\u003c\/i\u003e is Caterina Barbieri’s time machine, primarily composed with a modular synth rig she thinks of more like a mechanical fortune teller. Whereas previous releases were constructed on lengthy tours, capturing only snapshots of continually evolving works, \u003ci\u003eSpirit Exit \u003c\/i\u003erepresents the producer’s first album fully written and recorded in her home studio amidst Milan’s two-month pandemic lockdown in 2020. It was during this extended isolation she found inspiration from female philosophers, mystics and poets spread across time, but united in their strength at cultivating vast internal worlds. St. Teresa D’Avila’s foundational 16th century mystical text The Interior Castle, philosopher Rosi Braidotti’s posthuman theories and the metaphysical poetry of Emily Dickinson act as thematic anchors throughout Spirit Exit, imbuing a life and death gravity into the composer’s most perception-altering music to date.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Light-Years","offers":[{"title":"Silver | LP | x2.","offer_id":50452741292363,"sku":"1152637","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD.","offer_id":50452741816651,"sku":"1152634","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/c0543fc7-3354-4704-a391-6c04a476998d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727162626"},{"product_id":"fantas-variations","title":"Fantas Variations","description":"\u003cp\u003eFantas is the epic opening track on Caterina Barbieri's acclaimed 2019 release \u003ci\u003eEcstatic Computation\u003c\/i\u003e. The original Fantas laid out a magical path of patterns leading the listener on a journey into the sound itself. \u003ci\u003eFantas Variations\u003c\/i\u003e maps out eight new potentials sprung from this initial path as constructed by a diverse 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. The results are a diverse array of approaches and instrumentation which blur the boundaries between the acoustic and electronic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFantas Variations\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLongtime 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. 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 chimerical qualities of the original, unveiling its spectral backbone.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Editions Mego","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x2","offer_id":50459764556107,"sku":"1124613","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a2aac721-43ec-4106-8191-94da0d110abc_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727227259"},{"product_id":"ecstatic-computation-re-issue","title":"Ecstatic Computation (Re-Issue)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree years after the original release date of Caterina Barbieri’s career defining album \u003ci\u003eEcstatic Computation\u003c\/i\u003e, the Italian artist reissues the record on her newly found own label light-years. The re- issue features a beautifully reworked version of the original cover art and a previously unreleased song on the CD.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaterina Barbieri is an Italian composer who explores themes related to machine intelligence and object oriented perception in sound through a focus on minimalism. \u003ci\u003eEcstatic Computation\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEqually 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? 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Both albums are based on creative sequencing processes that playfully unravel Barbieri’s deep- rooted interest in time, space, memory and emotion. And since she was set to re-release \u003ci\u003eEcstatic Computation\u003c\/i\u003e on her light-years imprint, it made sense to accompany that album with this intimately entangled set of unreleased recordings. Barbieri had been touring excessively at the time, and her process began to shift in response to that nomadic, interactive energy. Using the Orthogonal ER-101 modular sequencer, Barbieri manually programmed patterns into the device and fed them into her arsenal of noise generators, trialling different combinations at each show.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf an idea worked well in the live environment, she would put it aside, letting longer pieces breathe and transform as they sprung to life and developed organically. It’s a process she relates to her interest in cosmogony, the study of the universe’s origins; her music is rooted in the limitations of a small number of options that branch out into a much larger structure, eventually reaching towards an open-ended cosmos of possibility. From ‘Math of You’, it’s clear that the sounds are grounded in a similar sonic philosophy, blipping synth sequences nudge alongside each other harmonically, disrupting trance’s addicting euphoria with filigree polyrhythmic pulses. Like ‘Fantas’ before it, the track is focused around emotionally affecting repeating phrases, but a closer examination reveals hidden intricacies as these phrases flicker like illusions, dissolving and dissipating as they snake and weave.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Light Years","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50483002507595,"sku":"2022099","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Red LP","offer_id":50483003162955,"sku":"2022100","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50483002048843,"sku":"2022098","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/d4114d7c-937f-292d-cc2d-d80de71eafb4_ade6dbf7_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727559593"},{"product_id":"patterns-of-consciousness","title":"Patterns Of Consciousness","description":"\u003cp\u003ePatterns Of Consciousness is the powerful second full length from analog synth composer Caterina Barbieri. 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