Amma Ateria is an electroacoustic composer working in psychoacoustics, binaural beats and equal-loudness contour. Her focus remains faithful to both extremes of polarity in systemic spectrums — soft : severe, form : space, surrender : levitation, entropy : equilibrium—utilizing brainwave entrainment, time shifts, and neurological responses to DELTA, THETA, ALPHA, BETA, and GAMMA waves as material. Born in Hong Kong, working in San Francisco and New York City—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.

Studied with Maggi Payne and Fred Frith; Performed with Ikue Mori, Pauline Oliveros, Tarek Atoui, Paul Clipson, Zeena Parkins, Erik Friedlander, Brian Chase, Nava Dunkelman, Matmos, Pauchi Sasaki, John Zorn, Julie Tolentino, Stephanie Mei Huang, Kim Ip ; Opening support for Franck Vigroux, Tim Hecker, Maggi Payne, Lucy Railton.

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, SoART Austria, 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, The Lab, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Elsewhere Hall, GAIDA Festival, Elektronmusikstudion, Blaues Rauschen, The Music Gallery, FIMAV, Digital in Berlin: Kiezsalon, Meakusma, TwentyAlpha, Silence Touch, 2220 Arts + Archives, Public Records, Silence Please.