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01. Caterina Barbieri - Fantas
02. Caterina Barbieri - Spine Of Desire
03. Caterina Barbieri - Closest Approach To Your Orbit
04. Caterina Barbieri - Arrows Of Time
05. Caterina Barbieri - Pinnacles Of You
06. Caterina Barbieri - Bow Of Perception
07. Caterina Barbieri - Perennial Fantas
ARTIST
TITLE
Ecstatic Computation
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
LY 002CD LY 002CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
7/7/2023

Three years after the original release date of Caterina Barbieri's career-defining album Ecstatic Computation, the Italian artist reissues the record on her newly found own label light-years. The reissue features a beautifully reworked version of the original cover art. Caterina Barbieri is an Italian composer who explores themes related to machine intelligence and object-oriented perception in sound through a focus on minimalism. Ecstatic Computation revolves around the creative use of complex sequencing techniques and pattern-based operations to explore the artifacts 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. Equally 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? As long as the perception of the present is constantly enhanced and refreshed in an endless sense of loss, re-discovery and the search for self-orientation this question lies mute aside the thrilling and perplexing moment of the matter at hand. CD version includes a previously unreleased song. "Caterina Barbieri uses music to bend time and space around her. It's a warp-speed jump where everything seems to move slower and faster all at once." --Pitchfork