Following 2017's acclaimed 2LP Patterns of Consciousness, Ecstatic Computation is the new full-length LP by Caterina Barbieri. The album 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 chal… read more
Caterina is a Berlin-based Italian composer who explores themes related to machine intelligence and object oriented perception in sound. Caterina explores the psycho-physical effects of repetition and pattern-based operations in music by investigating the polyphonic and polyrhythmic potential of sequencers to draw severe, complex geometries in time and space by means of synthesis, minimalism and subtractive counterpoint. Repetition and pattern permutation as media to perceptual insight lies at the core of her current sonic research.
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Caterina is a Berlin-based Italian composer who explores themes related to machine intelligence and object oriented perception in sound. Caterina explores the psycho-physical effects of rep… read more
Caterina is a Berlin-based Italian composer who explores themes related to machine intelligence and object oriented perception in sound. Caterina explores the psycho-physical effects of repetition and pattern-based operations in music … read more