A few streets outside of Milan's city center is an uncharacteristically utilitarian block of 1930s flats. From her window in one of these buildings, the electronic musician Caterina Barbieri can see ...

Italian composer and modular synth virtuoso Caterina Barbieri released the gorgeous, otherworldly Spirit Exit last year. It’s a transportive album, blurring the sonic lines between organic instruments ...

Myuthafoo is an album that fizzes. Every sound buzzes with its own highly carbonated energy. Like laser beams intersecting in the night sky, the edges of melodic lines fray into the silence around ...

Italian producer Caterina Barbieri has been made the new Artistic Director of the Music Department of the Venice Biennale. The appointment was approved yesterday (November 5) by the official Board of ...

What’s that sound? A few years ago, I came across an MIT study in which a group of neurologists measured listeners’ brain responses to sound using an MRI scanner. The MIT study played 165 sound ...

There’s a glass elevator inside a mountain in Graz, Austria, which squeezes past 120 metres of sliced rock before popping up for a view over the red rooftops of the city. There are two lifts to choose ...

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The Italian composer Caterina Barbieri's euphoric new album Spirit Exit was made in pandemic isolation but longs for "the outside world," in all... A few streets outside of Milan's city center is an ...