Amma Ateria, derived from ‘flammable material’, is a philosophy held through her work, — to give strength to disintegration and fragility, to rebuild from aftermath of destruction, of dust. An electroacoustic composer / sound artist, her work focuses on psychoacoustics in binaural beats, brainwave entrainment, and equal-loudness contour. With immediacy of tension / release, she navigates between oppositions in search of transcending moments, transforming deafening noise into self hypnosis and metamorphosis. Compositions developed during her concussion recovery, utilizes brainwave entrainment, time shifts, and changes of neurological responses to DELTA, THETA, ALPHA, BETA, GAMMA waves as materials and focal point. With memories of condensed cities, she gravitates to frequencies of close-ranged airplanes, polyrhythmic occurrences, out-of-body experiences, sustained harmonics intersected with musique concrète, and lost speech.

Born in Hong Kong, working in San Francisco and New York City, since her studies at Mills College in music composition with specialization in electronic music, audio engineering, and media technology, her work has been presented at Pioneer Works, Meakusma, Digital in Berlin : Kiezsalon, Blaues Rauschen, SoART Austria, Elektronmusikstudion, Titanik Gallery, The Stone, BAMPFA, Exploratorium, Marfa Sounding, CCRMA Stanford University, Cinematheque YBCA, Minnesota Street Project, Other Minds, Recombinant ‘Clouds of Confoundment’, Cone Shape Top: Cicada Series, MAK Center / Schindler House, Fort Mason Arts & Culture, Gray Area, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Elsewhere Hall, GAIDA Festival, Kadist, The Music Gallery, FIMAV, Basilica Hudson.