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Past life includes electroacoustic composer, actor, improviser, community worker, performance artist, reporter, television documentary maker, radio announcer, traveler, learner, communicator, seeker, quilter, writer, carer for the sick, listener to the dying, deep listener, deep dreamer, oral historian, premonitionist, field recorder, composer, linguist, translator, interpreter, teacher, singer, collaborator, sound artist, seamstress, activist, editor, egalitarianist, meditator, networker, interdisciplinist, spiritual practitioner, vocalist, and sitter.

Her past contributes to her present.

Caterina was raised on a farm in Australia and karmically assigned to a multicultural family. She keyed into her surrounding sounds and created an 'art' that reflected this space. For an Italian, using the voice as an expressive form could be considered a birthright. By extension it seemed a natural process for her to work improvised vocals and the sounds of the bush side by side. She has been making field recordings since she was nine.

A move to Europe in 1990 allowed her more opportunity to focus on experimental use of the voice. In France she met Ben Vautier and other members of the Fluxus group who encouraged her to go to Germany where she resided for seven years. There began her on-going collaborations with one of Germany's most uncompromising 'experimental' bands - Strafe FR. She provided exotica for Atatak studio, and worked with renown improvisers including Peter Kowald and Butch Morris. Caterina�s experiments were an eclectic minestrone of post punk, industrial, free jazz, electronic, performance and multilinguist extemporaneous humor.

In 1999 she met Pauline Oliveros and in 2004 became Australia�s first certified Deep Listener. Oliveros sparked many glorious collaborations including: a film directed by Ione where she acts a vocalist ghost with performance artist, Linda Montano who really is a beatified saint; and with Professor Moira Roth in her Library of Maps series. Given her extraordinary vocal range, she has a particular affinity with birdsong and was invited to perform at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh, and with The Villa-Lobos Octet in the performance Brasilia at Chatham College. She also sung at the Central Park Tropical Aviary in Manhattan in 2006 with all manner of sentient beings.

Since 1994 Caterina has studied directly from Tibetan Buddhist lineage holders in a small monastery in northern India (NOT Dharamsala). Her journeys to study in the Tibetan tradition have also taken her to Nepal and Tibet. She thrives with the opportunity to integrate her art with Tibetan Buddhist study of Mind and meditation practice. She believes translating contemplative science into an aesthetic domain can evolve and shift existing paradigms of creative work process. The technology of consciousness is a valid technology rooted in its experience gained through practice. Her passion for neurological research and meditation is key to her artistic process. Over the last year she has been a subject for brain studies and meditation at Rutgers University where she has been inspired to use her fMRI scans in installations using live performance, sound scape and video projection.

Instrumental is her complete dedication to using arts as an empowering tool in creating community not dominated by patriarchy, aggression, and abuse. The creation of community events that bring diversity and a consciousness of constructive intentions is one of her favorite creative art/life pieces. She is becoming increasingly noted for her unusual transformations of industrial spaces into aesthetically beautiful multimedia events.

Her first Masters (1999) investigated the spontaneous songs of realization of the Mahasiddhas of ancient India, and how this informed Western experimental and improvised vocal practice as well as contemporary sound art. In 2001 Caterina was awarded a Performance Art/Life Certificate and Degree from Linda Montano, Foundress of the Art/Life Institute, NY. Montano is the most sincerest living exemplar of a Catholic mystic who may as well be a Mahasiddha!

This latter degree is the only one that counts.

http://www.deeplistening.org/
http://www.abc.net.au/arts/adlib/stories/s875549.htm
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