ONCEIM

Composition

Caterina Barbieri

WORLDWIDE CREATION

09.04.2026

PLACE

Rewire Festival, La Haye

LENGTH

STAFF

COPRODUCERS

Philharmonie de Paris, Festival Musica

TiTLe

Non puoi contare l'infinito

Description

In this new work for orchestra, voice and electronics, Caterina Barbieri extends the compositional techniques developed through her intense practice of electronic music and analogue synthesizers to acoustic instruments. She transposes generative and semi-random writing processes into the orchestral domain, nourished by a deep dialogue with technology and the creative possibilities of modular synthesis.

In the past, Caterina has often used the expression Ecstatic Computation (the title of her 2019 album released by Editions Mego) to refer to this set of generative techniques and creative use of computation as a means of exploring themes related to memory, time and the phenomenology of perception, frequently questioning states of trance, altered states of consciousness and emotional intensity.

Non puoi contare l'infinito is inspired by the theme of birth and the process of separation. ‘For me, this music is a song about the loss of the One,’ writes the artist, 'a groove tracing the wound of the original void. Music is the cutting of the umbilical cord'. The composition examines the passage from unity to difference, from the infinite to the finite. This transition is explored through varying degrees of definition and indeterminacy in the musical material, both in its timbral characterisation and in the development of formal structures, along a shifting threshold between deterministic and open processes, between punctual elements and textural expanses.

CONCERTS

10.04.2026, FRENCH CREATION, PHILHARMONie, PARIS (FR)