Caterina Barbieri

Caterina Barbieri (born September 14, 1990) is an Italian composer and musician. Education Barbieri studied electroacoustic composition and classical guitar at the Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini in Bologna, in which she earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree, respectively. She also has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Bologna with a thesis in ethnomusicology about Hindustani classical music and minimalism. Music career 2010s Barbieri’s work explores consciousness and the psychoacoustic effects of repetition. Most of her compositions make use of modular synthesis, and she was first inspired by the Buchla 200, though she has stated she is less interested in the hardware and prefers to focus on the music itself. She is often cited as a minimalist composer and takes a no-frills approach towards composition. From 2013, she attended the Elektronmusikstudion electronic music studios in Stockholm and, after releasing a split album under the name Morbida with Medicine Bow (2014), composed and produced her solo debut album Vertical, released in 2014 by Cassauna, a sub-label of the U.S.-based Important Records. Since 2016, Barbieri has collaborated closely with Berlin’s hi