The album At Source by Caterina Barbieri and Bendik Giske perceives music as an inexhaustible, essential and elusive source, yet primordial. It features two renowned composer-musicians building together a sonic universe within an intimate and autonomous collaboration, between analog synthesis and an innovative approach to the saxophone, giving birth to a unique sound world. Both intimate and cosmic, the album explores the challenges and potentialities of their artistic exchanges, breaking free from conventional techniques to access the full richness of their sonic meeting point.
At Source bears witness to the sound world born from the collaboration of two artists, exploring the limits and possibilities of interpretation through the body and the machine. It is not an exercise in assimilation, but a fruitful exchange and a creative confrontation. The album draws neither energies nor external influences, but focuses on exploring the depth of their respective playing.
Barbieri and Giske first met in 2019 at Kunsthaus Glarus and were immediately captivated by each other's performances. This meeting led to exchanges on the power of transitions as a compositional force. Giske subsequently contributed to a reinterpretation of Fantas for Fantas Variations (Editions Mego, 2021), an ambitious project of reorchestrating Barbieri's work for saxophone and voice, a challenge Giske had undertaken two years earlier as part of an ongoing transcription work. "This request confirmed the convergence of our ideas," explains Giske.
Their new collaborative project then began during an artistic residency at the ICA in Milan in 2021, at the invitation of Swiss artist and curator Jan Vorisek, as the world was gradually emerging from lockdown.
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