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| Birth name | Caterina Barbieri |
| Born | September 14, 1990 |
| Origin | Bologna, Italy |
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| Years active | 2014–present |
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| Website | caterinabarbieri |
Caterina Barbieri (born September 14, 1990) is an Italian composer and musician. [1] [2]
Prior to and concurrently with her early music career, Caterina studied electroacoustic composition as well as classical guitar at the Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini in Bologna, in which she earned a bachelor's and master's degree, respectively. She has also earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Bologna with a thesis in ethnomusicology about Hindustani classical music and minimalism.
Caterina's work explores consciousness and the psychoacoustic effects of repetition. Most of her compositions make use of modular synthesis, and she was first inspired by the Buchla 200, though she has stated she is less interested in the hardware and prefers to focus on the music itself. [3] She is often cited as a minimalist composer and takes a no-frills approach towards composition. [4] [5]
From 2013, she attended the Elektronmusikstudion electronic music studios in Stockholm and, after releasing a split album under the name Morbida with Medicine Bow (2014), composed and produced her solo debut album Vertical, released in 2014 by Cassauna, a sub-label of the U.S.-based Important Records.
Since 2016, Barbieri has collaborated closely with Berlin's historic experimental music and performing arts festival Berlin Atonal, with multimedia projects such as her collaboration with American musician Kali Malone Upper Glossa and her audiovisual show Time-blind with visual artist Ruben Spini.
In 2017, Important Records released on double vinyl the second album Patterns of Consciousness, composed through the exclusive use of the ER-101 four-track sequencer and a harmonic oscillator. According to the artist's intentions, the album would "explore the psycho-physical effects of sound on consciousness through ideally infinite repetition and permutation of patterns." At the time of its release, Patterns of Consciousness was considered one of the best releases of the year by various magazines including The Wire, Fact and Vice. [6] [7] [8] The same year saw the release of Remote Sensing, a collaboration with Carlo Maria under the name of Punctum.
In 2018, Born Again in the Voltage was released, an album consisting of four tracks for Buchla 200, vocals and cello recorded at Elektronmusikstudion in Stockholm between 2014 and 2015. That release received positive reviews from magazines such as Pitchfork. [9] Shortly after Born Again in the Voltage, a split album with Eleh Wear Patterns was released.
In 2019, she released Ecstatic Computation on Editions Mego, which received excellent reviews from international critics. [10] [11] [12] Brainwashed called the album the "work of a hyper-intelligent android who has discovered human emotions and feels them very intensely," while Rolling Stone Italia included Ecstatic Computation among the best Italian records of the decade. [13] The same year she was included in the catalogue of the historic music publisher Warp Publishing.
In 2020 she composed the soundtrack for John and the Hole , which was selected for that year's Cannes film festival. [14] [15]
In July 2021 she announced the launch of her independent label, light-years [16] . In April 2022 she released the single "Broken Melody" and announced her fifth album Spirit Exit, which was released on July 8, 2022. [17] Recorded during the first two months of the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in Milan, the album is also the first in her solo work to feature strings, guitar, and vocals in addition to synthesizer. [18] Critics noted that Spirit Exit was also more taut and condensed in sound compared to previous albums, owing to its development occurring in her home studio. [19]
Barbieri has participated in some of the most important music festivals in the world, from Unsound [20] to Berlin Atonal, [21] Primavera Sound, [22] Sónar, [23] Dekmantel, [24] Berghain [25] and CTM. [26] She has also presented her work in prestigious venues such as the Barbican Centre [27] in London, the Berliner Festspiele, [28] Haus der Kunst [29] in Munich, the Museo Anahuacalli [30] in Mexico City, the Ruhrtriennale [31] and the Philarmonie de Paris [32] among the many.
The album Myuthafoo , recorded at the same time as Ecstatic Computation, was released on June 19, 2023 on the composer's light-years imprint. [33]
In 2023, the song Fantas for Electric Guitar, taken from the album Fantas Variations and performed with Walter Zanetti, was chosen for the soundtrack of the extended version of Il popolo delle donne by Yuri Ancarani, a documentary selected for the 20th edition of Giornate degli Autori at the 80th Venice Film Festival. [34]
In 2024, Barbieri participated in the Venice Biennale with a music piece co-composed with Kali Malone for Massimo Bartolini’s organ at the Italian Pavilion [35] and she also premiered new work Womb in Paris, commissioned by IRCAM and Centre Pompidou for the 350 loudspeaker system at ESPRO. [36]
On November 5, 2024, the Board of Directors of the Venice Biennale appointed her as Artistic Director of the Music Department for the two-year period 2025-2026. [37]
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