Caterina Barbieri will release her Ecstatic Computation LP on May 3rd via Editions Mego. The Italian composer uses complex sequencing techniques to create multifaceted sonic patterns on the album’s six tracks. Minimalist in style, Barbieri’s compositions encourage an awareness of the now, even as her varied textures seem to slip and slide back-and-forth in time.
While the digital computation of the computer’s coded world might be dictated by 0s and 1s, the composer’s method of Ecstatic Computation seeks a creative approach to what is normally an automatic process. The goal, a sonic experience capable of inducing a state of wonder as the complexity of the auditory moment brings about an expanded sense of time.
“Fantas” opens the composer’s new LP collection. Suggesting vast dimensions, a cosmic wind seems to reverberate thru the space here as a slowly coalescing melody gains sentience and force. Eventually splintering off into glittering arpeggios, the track’s growing complexity gains an opulescent gleam before its entropic demise causes an ear splitting collapse.
