The Italian synthesist takes us to the top of Mount Etna for an unique live efficiency.
For this episode of Patch Notes, we took a trip with Caterina Barbieri to Sicily and taped a session near the top of Mount Etna, among the world’s most active volcanoes. In the middle of bubbling lava circulations, Barbieri carried out live variations of ‘At Your Gamut’ and ‘Terminal Clock’, drawn from her 2022 album, Spirit Exit.
The session was shot as part of our current documentary on Barbieri, which followed the Italian artist as she went back to live efficiency following the pandemic and debuted the light-years idea around Europe. “I like to think about noise as a spiral that links the real world with the esoteric world,” she describes in the movie.
Barbieri’s music, which integrates modular synthesis, vocals and other instrumentation, has actually developed throughout a number of albums consisting of Patterns of ConsciousnessandThrilled ComputationOn 16 June, Barbieri will launch a sibling album to Spirit Exit entitled Myuthafoo, which was mainly composed while visiting with a procedure that reacted to the “nomadic, interactive energy” of life on the roadway.
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Credits:
Directed and produced by Pedro S. Küster
Additional video by Sofia Küster
Noise by Caterina Barbieri
Unique thanks to Parco dell’Etna, Regione Siciliana, Ministero dell’Ambiente, Federparchi, UNESCO, Daniela Pavone, Luciano Di Marco, Paride, Pippo and Ruben Spini
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