Caterina Barbieri light years

Over the past 10 years, Italian composer Caterina Barbieri has created transcendent musical experiences, combining modular synthesis with vocals and other forms of instrumentation to create a distinctively emotive musical signature, most notably on her albums Patterns of Consciousness and Ecstatic Computation. For Barbieri, music is the meeting point of the material and the immaterial. I like to think of sound as a spiral that connects the physical world with the metaphysical world, she tells Fact in our new film exploring her performance and practice. In that sense sound really brings you outside of your ego and your physical boundaries. Following the isolation of the pandemic, Barbieri found herself craving shared artistic experiences. She launched a new platform and live concept called lightyears and released an album, Spirit Exit, all of which had musical collaboration at their heart. In this film, shot by Fact as Barbieri returned to live performance and debuted the lightyears