cambrian animals !!

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.
i think it was last year that i discovered my 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

i don't really remember when was the moment that i started liking bugs, but after ending my introductory year for biology in university i was already very in love with them, and creatures in general.at that time i was drawing them frequently, and once i thought “hey it would be nice to make some music based on the drawing !!”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 “this is nice, i could make more”, and that’s what i did.

at first i wasn’t very clear about the sound idea and i just did what the bug inspired me to do, but 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 and other people told me the same thing, so yeah that’s cool.

egocentric boring words

hiii i'm camiidae. i'm from Argentina, i was born in 2003, and i'm non-binary.
i'm studying biology in university but i have no idea what to specialize in… i just like creatures 🐝 🪲🐌 🦗 🕷️ 🪱 🪰 🪳🦋 🐞
i like hugs, i'm vegan, and i like listening to music by albums. also fuck capitalism there's gotta be another way of living that doesn't require the destruction human lives and our planet and every sentient being in it. (i hope)i like drawing and i like making music, but the thing i tend to do with my projects is merging both things. i always feel like my music is empty if it doesn't have something drawn that goes with it, so if i compose some music i first need to know what i'm composing it for, and concept drawings help me a lot with that !!
i think that's why i got more into youtube, since it lets me merge both things in a way i like.since saying "i listen to lots of music" doesn't tell anything about what i like listening, here are some genres i like: progressive rock, hip-hop, electronic, jazz fusion, ambient, soundtracks (mostly from indie videogames or zelda)
i made this playlist that has most of the things i like listening (i try to keep it one song per artist).now i wanna share a little bit of background:i don't know when was the exact moment i decided i wanted to make art. it's blurry because art was always present in my life. when i was a kid i loved drawing monsters and creatures. then i started going to a music school where i learned to play the piano and some music theory. i never questioned all that, it simply came to me so 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 composing. i just knew how to read and translate a piece of paper into mechanical notes on a piano. i just dreamed of 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, putting exaggerated amounts of pressure in myself.
i lived like that for a year until i broke. i didn't enjoy making music anymore, it was literally suffering.
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 finally said “i don't want to make music for a living, i want to make music only if i want, and if i don't enjoy the process then i will stop… and i'm going to study biology, yeah”and then.. i started making music again. but that's not it, i WANTED to make music. THAT was the achievement. and that desire to make music just kept growing, and the desire to have artistic projects involving both drawings and music too...ok that was too much serious stuff, here are more random things I like

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