heyyy i’m camiidae. i create art inspired by nature, usually in the form of concept albums.α¨’β†Ÿβ†Ÿβš˜α¨’   this is my humble website   α¨’β†Ÿβ˜€οΈŽα¨’β†‘buttons at the top↑ take you to my projects and some facts about me.
↓buttons at the bottom↓ take you to the places you can find me, the most important ones being:youtube: where i upload my finished projects at their final and definitive audiovisual expression (music and the visuals that go along with it)
patreon: where i share my album logs, a type of newsletter that contains works in progress of the project i'm working on at the time, like new music demos, sketches, creative crisis, videos, and overall any idea i have during that part of the project (i really recommend checking them out !)
bandcamp: where you can buy digital copies of my albums.


i hope you like what i do <3
~cami

echoes of a little natural journey


a voyage on a smaller scale. not a big odyssey from one end of the world to the other, but rather a little journey from this rock to that mushroom, from this mushroom to that leaf, from this leaf over here to that blade of grass over there.


the whole idea was inspired by a single ant i saw at the park. that ant was alone, but it was moving forward, with a purpose, a determined course- as if it were on little journey.
at that moment, i unconsciously started singing. and then it occurred to me that an album about a journey on a smaller scale could sound great.

and i started working on it. i knew that i wanted to make longer tracks, with many parts so that it would feel like they were telling a little story that really felt like a bug's journey.then i decided that i wanted to show that visually too, to experiment with things that i've never tried to do before.
so i made the drawings and tried to put together this simple animation that accompanies the whole journey.
and woah it was difficult at the start, but i learned and got better at it, and i came up with this video you have here !!then, as the project developed, came the idea of the interludes: little pieces to describe changes in the environment and scenery the different bugs were traveling in.

cambrian animals !!


an artistic rendition to some of the animals that lived during the cambrian period. they're just so beautiful and fascinating, and i love them so much.


the cambrian period began ~540 million years ago and lasted ~55 million years. during that time, life forms started to reaaally diversify, and so many interesting looking critters appeared.
and there’s something so captivating about how they look. i find them weird, cute, awesome, and funny all at the same time.
on 2023 i discovered a fascination with paleozoic fauna. if i remember correctly, my introduction to it was an anomalocaris meme. i loved that creature so much that i needed to know more about them. and when i did i wanted to start learning more about other creatures.then at some point i just started drawing them, and later i was so obsessed that i wanted to dedicate an album to them,, and here it is !!

i don’t know, life on earth is such a breathtaking thing and it’s kinda shocking to think about how there were living beings so different from us and so long before us that one day just... disappeared.
and life just kept going. like the whole universe and time and things just started to happen and life appeared and developed and diversified and created so many different things and... and here we are.
life led us to this moment.
it’s strange, but also beautiful in so many ways.

music for bugs


my first album, made purely out of love for the little critters. each track is inspired by a different kind of bug and is located in a different natural landscape.
now available in CD and CASSETTE !! (on-hold for the moment)


i don't really remember when was the moment that i started liking bugs. i think i always found them fascinating and misunderstood creatures.. but i was teached to fear them, like the majority of people.
what i do know is that, after ending my introductory year for biology in university, i had lost most of that fear and i loved letting them crawl on me.at that time i was drawing them frequently, and then a random day i thought β€œhey it would be nice to make some music based on one of these drawings !!”i didn’t have any kind of long term project in mind with this, but when i finished with that early tortoise beetle video i was like β€œthis is nice, i could make more”, and that’s what i did.

at first i wasn’t very clear about the sound. i just did what the bug inspired me to do with the tools that i had: my pc, my electric piano, some free virtual instruments and effects, and many recordings that i thought sounded pretty.then as i kept composing it started to sound more cohesive, like there was a unique style for this.
i was actually scared about that when i decided to make an album, i thought it would sound like many unrelated things mashed together. but to my surprise it didn't ! (i think so)anyway, this silly project is what led me to where i'm now and that is actually crazy,, i never expected it could resonate with so many people <3

egocentric boring words

i'm camiidae and i make music and visuals inspired by nature !
my real name is Camilo, i'm non binary (he/she/they are all fine), i'm from Argentina, and i was born in 2003.

apart from making art, i study biology in university and i think ecology is the brach that interests me the most. like, i enjoy spending time outside and love when things interact and are connected as parts of something greater. and i just love creatures so much 🐝 πŸͺ²πŸŒ±πŸŒ πŸ€πŸ„πŸ¦—πŸ¦ŽπŸ•·οΈπŸŒΏπŸͺ±πŸ¦• πŸͺ° πŸŸπŸ¦‹πŸ¦€πŸ¦ πŸž
i like hugs, i'm vegan, i like having existential conversations, and i like listening to music by albums.
also fuck capitalism and this neo-feudalism dystopia we live in !!!1!!!11!!camiidae lore:i don't know when was the exact moment i decided i wanted to create art. when i was a kid i loved drawing creatures, monsters and skulls. then i started going to a music school where i learned how to play the piano and also some music theory. after that, it felt natural to follow something related to that.
at first i wanted to compose soundtracks for films, and then for videogames. being a videogame composer sounded so cool to me. the thing is, i knew absolutely nothing about actually composing music. i just knew how to read and translate sheet music into mechanical notes on a piano, and i dreamed about having a pc to start making music.and when i got it i faced a wall. i was mindlessly learning without putting anything into real practice, on an endless tutorial hell putting exaggerated amounts of pressure in myself.
i lived like that for a year until i broke. i didn't enjoy making music anymore, just the idea of making music made me suffer.
so i stopped. and i started drawing again. and i started getting more and more interested in biology and science. and it felt so, so good.
and then i made a choice. i said to myself: β€œi don't want to make music for a living, i want to make music only if i want to, and if i don't enjoy the process then i will stop… and i'm going to study biology, yeah.”and that's what i did. i enrolled in university for a biology degree and my worldview grew so a lot. i learned many things, made new friends, got a little better at drawing, and... and then, i started making music again. but that's not it, i WANTED to make music. THAT was the achievement. i wanted to create just out of love for the craft !!then, at one point i started uploading my creations to youtube, and 9 months after finishing with music for bugs it blew up and so many people found my art. i was stunned by how many humans around the world enjoyed it. it was wonderful and it gave me more courage to keep creating more and more, and it also made me appreciate me and my work a lot more !!
it also reminded me how beautiful human beings can be and how much love we can spread because omg that album got soooo many kind and sweet comments <3then i kept exploring sounds and experimenting with new ideas and now, ironically, i'm making a living out of this ??? life sure has its twists.
it's pretty strange. i can now spend my days working on concept albums and going to university to study biology, getting enough money from my art to support my studies.
and that's GREAT, i know i'm lucky as hell don't get me wrong, but other times it doesn't feel that good. i always find a way to be in the middle of an identity crisis and going through deep feelings of uncertainty, feelin lost in this strange existence.
but overall, i think i can say that i'm very happy with how all of this turned out !! it's just that i feel i have yet to find a balance, and find my real place in this weird world, if that's even a thing.~~~anyway, here aresome random things that i like:𓆝 trekking
π“†Ÿ orange juice I FUCKING LOVE ORAENGE JUICE
π“†Ÿ space and astrophysics
π“†ž films and series that make you go man..... this is cinema
𓆝 pokΓ©mon (gen 1 to 5. i don't know much about the rest)
π“†Ÿ reading (i specially like sci-fi, coming of age fiction, and science stuff)
π“†ž working out
𓆝 getting drunk/high with friends and talk about life
π“†ž olive oil FUCK i LOVE olive oil so mUCH πŸ›πŸ›πŸ›also here's a playlist full of tracks and artists that i believe shaped the way i make music.
when i listen back to these i think "there's definitely something about this that kept playing in some part of my brain and influenced the way i create" β†’ camiidae inspirations~~~some of the tools i use to make art:🎹Hardware:
- Casio CDP-S100 (88 keys electric piano)
- Arturia MicroLab mk3 (portable midi controller)
- ZOOM H5 (portable handy recorder that i use both as a field recorder and as a portable audio interface)
- Wacom Intuos S (drawing tablet)
πŸ’»Software:
- REAPER (digital audio workstation)
- Clipstudio Paint Pro (drawing and image editing software)
- DaVinci Resolve (video editing software)
🎡Audio effects and virtual instruments:
- Scatter, Autochroma, Texturize and Jumble (granular synthesis effects), Sitala (sampler), and native REAPER effects (eqs, pitchshifters, delays, and other effects that come with the daw)
- Vital and Massive (synthetizers)
- Spitfire Audio LABS (free virtual instruments library. i used this a loooot on my first three albums, after that, not so much)~~~some other things:here is a link to a discord server i made where we talk about nature, art, and many things. it's very wholesome and people are super nice β†’ join under the logπŸ›if you like what i do you can share my work with someone, or support me economically on patreon, bandcamp, or ko-fi to help me continue sharing what i love doing !
bandcamp is for buying digital copies of my music, patreon is where i share the progress i'm making on the project i'm working at the moment (like a newsletter with music demos and visuals), and ko-fi is for little symbolic donations.i hope things are going good for you. the world is weird and fucked up in many ways but there are so many cool and beautiful things and reasons to smile and love. keep going.