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atta begins from the gesture of leafcutter ants, who displace fragments of their environment to grow the fungus that sustains them — a form of collective, proto-technological intelligence. In sound, this becomes an ecology of signals that are dislocated and fed back into themselves, continually reorganizing their own conditions of existence. Rather than reproducing natural sounds, atta stages logics of interdependence and transformation, inviting listeners into a space where nature and technology blur, and perception becomes a shared act of resonance.
Recorded and mixed between Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon by nico espinoza
Final mix and master by Pedro Joaquim Borges
Art by Andrea Paz
Graphic design by DripProyecto financiado por el Fondo para el Fomento de la Música Nacional, Convocatoria 2025 del Ministerio
Projeto apoiado pelo Procedimento Simplificado - 2024 da República Portuguesa - Cultura I DGARTES – Direção-Geral das Artes
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Atta is a sonic exploration of extended ecologies, where organic and synthetic agencies interlace to co-create new auditory experiences. At the heart of this album lies a custom sonic device that synthesizes sound—not by mimicking the natural world, but by being dynamically modulated by it. These modulations are informed by natural soundscapes unfolding across multiple scales: from expansive environmental forces like wind and weather, to the delicate patterns of insects, birds, and other small-scale phenomena. What emerges is a soundscape that is artificial in material but animated by living rhythms, shaped simultaneously by ecological dynamics and the performative gestures of the artist.
The title Atta refers to the genus of leafcutter ants, remarkable organisms that embody a kind of proto-technological intelligence. Their social structures could be seen as a form of distributed technology—an intricate choreography of roles and behaviors. More compellingly, their act of cutting leaves to cultivate fungus functions as an externalized digestive system: a living prosthesis. In Atta, this relationship becomes a metaphor for the technical entanglements present even at micro-ecological scales.
Through this work, Atta invites listeners to consider how meaningful and productive relations might emerge from hybrid, interdependent systems—between nature and machine, organism and algorithm, gesture and modulation. It does not seek to imitate nature, but to become-with it, offering a sonic terrain where sensitivity becomes a mode of collaboration.
