heyy i’m camiidae and i make art inspired by nature and this weird but beautiful thing we call life !  π“‚ƒ ΰ½Όβ˜Όπ“‚ƒβ†Ÿα¨’β†Ÿβ†Ÿβš˜α¨’   this is my humble website   α¨’β†Ÿβ˜€οΈŽα¨’β†Ÿβ†‘buttons at the top↑ take you to my creative projects and some information about me and my art.
↓buttons at the bottom↓ take you to some places you can find me:𓆏youtube: where i share my projects, and some other things.
𓆀patreon: where i share news about myself and my work, and also exclusive periodic publications that contain 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)
π“†ˆbandcamp: where you can buy digital copies of my albums that come with the original audio files as well as additional material (although my music is on most streaming services !)if you want to contact me, you can write to my email at: [email protected]


i hope you like what i do <3
~cami

echoes of a little natural journey (2024)


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 ~


this project comes from a place of appreciation towards the smaller and calmer moments in life, a way of showing that not all journeys must be big or have a concrete destination. the album is designed to feel like a story told in different chapters. long pieces inspired by bugs include many distinct sections that vary in emotion, and short pieces work as interludes that describe changes in the scenery the bugs are traveling in. this aims to give the story a sense of movement and the passing of time, showcasing that even if there’s not a concrete destination, the journey is still there.the idea for this album came from a single ant i saw at the park. the ant was alone, but it looked like it was moving forward, with a purpose, a determined course. as if it were on little journey.
at that moment i started singing without noticing (as i usually do), and after a while it occurred to me that an album about a little journey could sound great. we usually romanticize huge stories with lots of movement and intensity (and that's not necessarily a bad thing !), but smaller and calmer moments are very important too. so i thought, "what if instead of a big journey, i portrayed one on a smaller scale"?and so, 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 felt like a bug's journey.
the bugs that i chose for the tracks were chosen because of their different paces and times of day with which they are commonly associated: an ant, a snail, a cricket, and a mantis.then i decided that i also wanted to show this visually, to create a sense of slow but constant movement.
i made the bugs and scenery drawings and tried to put together a simple animation that accompanies the whole journey.
if you want to actually see how i made all of these visuals you can watch this video !!


then, as the project developed, came the idea of the interludes (drizzle, dusk, sunrise, and journey's end). these little pieces were meant to describe changes in the environment and scenery the different bugs were traveling in. i thought they worked well to make the journey seem like it was moving. slow but steady, not necessarily with a destination, but moving nonetheless ~

cambrian animals !! (2024)


an artistic rendition to some of the animals that lived during the cambrian period. creatures as beautiful as fascinating, so distant in time, and yet, animals of the earth like us. dead but not forgotten ~


the cambrian period began ~540 million years ago and lasted ~55 million years. during that time, life forms began to diversify at an incredible rate and so many interesting looking critters appeared.and there's something so captivating about how they look. i find them weird, beautiful, funny, cute, all at the same time.if i remember correctly, my introduction to paleozoic fauna came from an anomalocaris meme i saw around 2023. i loved that creature so much and i needed to know more about them. i did some research on the internet and loved it even more, so i started looking for other similar animals from that time period.at some point i started drawing them for fun and out of pure fascination, and later i was so in love with them that i wanted to make an album. the idea for the project was not only to create a piece of art that felt touching, but also to share information about this intriguing world so far back in time, and encourage the listeners to be curious, passionate, and to never stop learning.
of all my projects, this is the one in which i got most involved in the science communication aspect. facts about the cambrian period and each one of the animals were shared alongside the art during development, and the final version of the album included a booklet containing artistic representations of each animal, and facts about them.it's just... i don't know. life on earth is such a breathtaking thing. it's 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 suddenly just happened, and life appeared and developed and diversified and created so many different things and, and...
and here we are. life led us to this moment. i wrote this in a past. you are reading it in a present.
it's strange. but so, so beautiful ~

music for bugs (2023)


my first album, made purely out of love for the little critters, a celebration of their existence and way of being. each track is inspired by a different bug and is located on a different natural landscape. locations gradually change during the album from one track to another, showcasing sounds from different places ~


i haven't always liked bugs. i was teached to fear them, like the majority of people in my culture. but despite this fear, i always found them a bit interesting and curious.
then, around 2021 i began to realize they had something magical about them, something so... peaceful? yeah, so gentle. i began to watch them from up close, and then let them climb on me. eventually, without even noticing, i ended up losing most of that fear.during that period of my life i spent a big part of my time drawing, so it was natural that i started drawing bugs.
and then on a random day i thought β€œhey it would be fun 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 the tortoise beetle video i thought β€œthat was fun, i could make some more”, and that’s what i did.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 free nature recordings that i found on the internet.eventually, i decided to put all of the compositions together making a concept album.
the idea was that each track would represent a bug, but also that each of these bugs would be located somewhere differently. these locations would then gradually change during the album from one track to another.after some months of work, i released the full album on the internet and kept going on with my life. i kept studying biology and making music on my free time. and a few months after that...: BOOM so many people found it and loved it !! it was wild.this naive little project is what led me to where i'm now and that is actually crazy. i never expected it could resonate with so many beautiful humans around the world <3also, on 2025, physical versions of the album were released on CD and cassette tape formats, which included a new remastered version of the music as well as rescanned and repainted drawings (that's why you may find the bugs looking a bit different on some of the versions out there).

BEING ALIVE / TEXTURE PROJECT
(TO BE ANNOUNCED)

currently working on this. will have news soon :]

egocentric boring words

heyyy i'm camiidae. 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.

i make music mixing analog and virtual instruments, synthesizers, nature ambiences, animal recordings and more things, aiming to create stories and atmospheres with sound that take the listener on a journey somewhere else. in addition to the music, my projects include both a very important visual component, as well as science communication.my work is primarily inspired by nature, its rhythm, and its spontaneity. it comes from a place of wonder, wandering and contemplation, and it shows compassion towards every living being.
i believe this is the primary reason why my work ended up resonating with so many people worldwide. like, i think it's not specifically about the music itself, but more about the universal feelings of wonder, curiosity, and love towards nature and the human experience that i try to portray with it. we all share this deep emotion towards nature and the universe and i think that’s so beautiful.apart from making art, i study biology in university and i'm interested in ecology. i enjoy spending time outside letting the universe surprise me, i like finding repeating patterns, and i love the way 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 like the sense of community, i try to avoid eating animal products, 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!!a little bit about my story: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 then i got one, my first ever computer. i was soooo exited to finally be able to make music with it. so i watched and watched hundreds of tutorials on how to use DAWs, plugins, how to make this how to compose that and... and 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. no one watched them for a while but it didn't matter. sometimes, someone dropped by and said very nice things about it and that made me very happy. then, after some small projects i decided to embark on something a little bigger, and i made music for bugs. and 9 months after finishing it and posting it on youtube it blew up and sooo 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. 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 creating and experimenting with new ideas, got new tools to record my own sounds, 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.

some random things that i like:𓆝 trekking
π“†Ÿ space and astrophysics
π“†ž watching films at the cinema
π“†Ÿ walking
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 hanging out with people and talk about existence
π“†Ÿ orange juice I FUCKING LOVE ORAENGE JUICE
π“†ž olive oil 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 inspirationssome of the tools i use to make art:🎹Hardware:
- Casio CDP-S100 (88 keys electric piano)
- Arturia MicroLab mk3 (portable midi controller)
- ZOOM H5 (handy recorder that i use both as a field recorder and as a portable audio interface)
- LOM UΕ‘i Pro (omnidirectional microphones for capturing ambiences)
- Wacom Intuos S (drawing tablet)
- MacBook Pro M4 (the computer i currently use. for my first 3 albums i used a windows desktop pc, good ol beast that i still use for other things)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)
- Arturia Analog Lab V (virtual instruments library)
- 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 !i hope things are going good for you. the world is weird and fucked up in some ways but don't forget there are so so many cool and beautiful things and reasons to smile and love. keep going