Exploring the psychophysical effects of sound, Caterina Barbieri makes otherworldly music that transport listeners to a higher dimension. Building on the work of deep listening pioneers such as Laurie Anderson and Pauline Oliveros, she uses the practice of quantum listening – a meditative and improvisatory approach that combines technology, the mystical and ecological – to break out of our individual egos, deepening our everyday engagement with the surrounding environment.

Today, the Berlin-based artist releases Myuthafoo, her fifth full-length album, and the sister record to 2019’s Ecstatic Computation. Across six new tracks, Barbieri creates pattern-based compositions that play with the unpredictability and chaos of analogue synths to summon meditative synthscapes that flow and mutate freely, breaking traditional song structures to transcend space and time. As Barbieri put it in a recent Dazed interview: “That real sense of really losing the boundaries of your ego and really merging into a bigger and larger perspective where you’re in touch with something bigger that is nature or the cosmos.”

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