Cortini, Alessandro - NATI INFINITI

Alessandro Cortini originally recorded the music heard on NATI INFINITI for an immersive audio installation at the Sónar Lisboa Festival in 2022, then debuted it as a performance at the Atonal Festival in Berlin the following year. Created entirely on the Strega synthesizer which Cortini co-designed with Make Noise, the album is a slowly evolving work in five parts. Cortini gracefully twists frequencies and applies decay and distortion, keeping the energy strong yet making it feel as if the world is gradually rotting away. The second movement feels the most agitated, like a deep swarm of insects which hover but never attack. Other parts offer an increasingly sour variation on the same mood, and by "V," the final movement, it all coalesces into an overwhelming haze. NATI INFINITI is a singular work best experienced in full, and it's some of the most rewarding music Cortini has produced.