Caterina Barbieri: Fantas Variations
Bandcamp / Buy Caterina Barbieri recently recruited a diverse array of musicians from around the world to reinterpret âFantas,â a bracing 10-minute composition from her 2019 album Ecstatic Computation. The piece, which opens with wispy synths that give way to glowing orbs of sound that dart about in interlocking shapes, is engrossing in the same way watching an incoming storm can be; it provokes constant anticipation, the complex swirl impossible to take in all at once. Barbieriâs music reflects a longstanding interest in the tension between the mechanical and the emotio...
Source: pitchfork.com