A co-commission from 180 Studios and Fact.
Caterina Barbieri hasactually shared the 2nd single from her upcoming album, Spirit Exit. ‘Broken Melody’ getshere accompanied with a beautiful visual from director Iacopo Carapelli and artist Ruben Spini, which sets sensational, slow-motion videofootage of levitating bodies versus Barbieri’s similarly transcendent synths and haunting vocals. Picking up thread of ‘Knot Of Spirit’, a cooperation with “futurist folk” artist Lyra Pramuk and the veryfirst release on Barbieri’s justrecently introduced label platform, light-years, ‘Broken Melody’ showcases the author’s custom-made modular synth rig, which she established over the course of the making of Spirit Exit in her house studio in Milan.
Spirit Exit marks the veryfirst album Barbieri hasactually composed completely in this studio and was tape-recorded throughout Milan’s two-month pandemic lockdown in2020 The follow-up to 2019’s Ecstatic Computation and 2017’s Patterns Of Consciousness sees Barbieri checkingout internal worlds, illustration impact from St. Teresa D’Avila’s fundamental 16th century magical text The Interior Castle, thinker Rosi Braidotti’s posthuman theories and the esoteric poetry of Emily Dickinson.
Elements of the video taken for the ‘Broken Melody’ visual will function as part of ‘Vigil’, a multimedia setup from Caterina Barbieri and regular partner Ruben Spini, recently commissioned by 180 Studios, which will function as part of Future Shock, a significant brand-new exhibit of 14 leading worldwide artists and collectives working at the innovative of audiovisual innovation.
Future Shock, which opens at London’s 180 The Strand on 28 April and runs to 28 August 2022, changes 180 Studios’ belowground areas through mesmerising and pioneering digital innovation – from generative and interactive algorithms, AI and 3-D digital mapping, to spellbinding laser work, holographic forecasts and ground-breaking electronic music. Tickets are on sale now bymeansof the 180 The Strand website.
‘Broken Melody’ is out now and is taken from Caterina Barbieri’s upcoming album Spirit Exit, which getshere on July 8 and is readilyavailable to pre-order now. You can discover Caterina Barbieri on Instagram.
‘Broken Melody’ Credits:
Artist – Caterina Barbieri
Label – light-years
Concept & Art Direction – Caterina Barbieri & Ruben Spini
Director – Iacopo Carapelli
DoP – Giuseppe Favale
Editor – Iacopo Carapelli & Elena Petitti di Roreto
Colorist – Orash Rahnema
Post production – DEEPICE, Mauro Moretti, Roberto D’Ippolito
Titles – Nicola Tirabasso
Produced by C41
Executive Producer – Barbara Guieu
Production Manager – Maria Borgognoni
Assistant Producer – Lorenzo Poloni
Co-Produced – Blackball
Co-commissioned by 180 Studios and Fact Magazine
Scenography – Fabrizio D’arpino
Assistant Scenography – Elena Strafella
Prop Master – Gianfranco Parmigiani
Movement Director – Elisa Zuppini
MUA – Greta Giannone
Characters: Inga Lavarini, Federica Nicastro, Omar Jaimes, Costanza Candeloro, Filippo Beccati, Joselin Solange Morales, Giulia Fossati, Gabriele Gangi, Elisa Zuppini
Phantom Operator – Claudio Fusini
1st AIRCONDITIONER – Paolo Gobbi
2nd AIRCONDITIONER – Davide Bongiorni
Stage AIRCONDITIONING – Riccardo Lorenzi
Gaffer – Francesco Galli
Elettricista – Fabio Proserpio, Marco Marangoni n
Key Grip – Riccardo Villella