Amma Ateria

Amma Ateria is a Hong Kong-born, Oakland-based interdisciplinary artist and composer known for her explorations of psychoacoustics, electronic manipulation, and the complex interplay between noise and silence. Her work navigates the intricacies of perception, memory, and spatial sound, often drawing upon her diasporic upbringing and experiences between cities and cultures. Utilizing analog synthesizers, field recordings, and feedback systems, Ateria constructs immersive sonic environments that probe the boundaries of listening, cognition, and the materiality of sound.

Deeply influenced by a cross-pollination of East Asian musical traditions and experimental Western forms, her performances and installations have appeared at venues and festivals such as The LAB, the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, and international showcases in Hong Kong and Europe. Through a practice rooted in both scientific inquiry and poetic resonance, Ateria’s work investigates how altered states of awareness can be triggered by the physical and emotional qualities of auditory phenomena, inviting audiences to engage with sound as both experience and meditation.