Listening to Amazônia Verde Viva: Transmorphic Intersections of Ecology and Music Technology in the Global South

Luiz Ribeiro Sales Fonseca, Thiago Albuquerque, Albery Albuquerque, and Courtney N. Reed

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

This paper investigates transmorphic music, a form of composition with animal voices created by Brazilian musicians Albery and Thiago Albuquerque, focusing on their 2021 work “Amazônia Verde Viva”. Through interview with Thiago, we link the work and its composition to broader debate about the borders between human, non-human, and technological voices in the face of climate change and ecological destruction. In artistic practice with novel technologies, this work contributes the (1) principle of transmorphic interaction and attunement to non-human voices and musical interfaces, and (2) alternative approaches from the Global South to the use of audio technologies in anticolonial and perspectivist practices in dialogue with animal collaborators.

Citation

Luiz Ribeiro Sales Fonseca, Thiago Albuquerque, Albery Albuquerque, and Courtney N. Reed. 2026. Listening to Amazônia Verde Viva: Transmorphic Intersections of Ecology and Music Technology in the Global South. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20784271 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry


@inproceedings{nime2026_88,
abstract = {This paper investigates transmorphic music, a form of composition with animal voices created by Brazilian musicians Albery and Thiago Albuquerque, focusing on their 2021 work “Amazônia Verde Viva”. Through interview with Thiago, we link the work and its composition to broader debate about the borders between human, non-human, and technological voices in the face of climate change and ecological destruction. In artistic practice with novel technologies, this work contributes the (1) principle of transmorphic interaction and attunement to non-human voices and musical interfaces, and (2) alternative approaches from the Global South to the use of audio technologies in anticolonial and perspectivist practices in dialogue with animal collaborators.},
address = {London, United Kingdom},
articleno = {88},
author = {Luiz  Ribeiro Sales Fonseca and Thiago Albuquerque and Albery Albuquerque and Courtney N. Reed},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.20784271},
editor = {Benedict Gaster and João Tragtenberg and Anna Xambó and Tom Mitchell},
issn = {2220-4806},
month = {June},
numpages = {11},
pages = {740--750},
title = {Listening to Amazônia Verde Viva: Transmorphic Intersections of Ecology and Music Technology in the Global South},
track = {paper},
url = {http://nime.org/proceedings/2026/nime2026_88.pdf},
year = {2026}
}