Caterina Tag

The Italian synth composer’s upcoming album finds beauty inside chaos, transporting listeners into the next state of consciousness Listening to Caterina Barbieri’s music is a deeply profound experience. The Italian composer has spent the past ten years creating transcendental synthscapes that steadily unfurl over time, with celestial modular melodies that project listeners to otherworldly dimensions. On Myuthafoo, the musician’s fifth full-length album, Barbieri explores the psychophysical effects of sound with pattern-based compositions that expand and transmute and adopt a lifetime of their very own. “I’m concerned about the creative uses of repetition as a type of psychedelia,” she begins. “It’s a vital tool in music to hypnotise and lead the listener into the...