ATME represents the act of breathing, and through it, welcoming within oneself the outside-unknown.
ATME is the act of contaminating and being contaminated, cross-pollination, transdisciplinarity.
ATME Records is not just a record label, it is a process of parsimonious curation and research that aims to question the contemporary art industry, its environmental and social sustainability-impact, and the directions of its development.
The lichen label was born from the need of the Berlin-based Italian born music producer and sound artist Lorenzo Setti (ATŌMI) to cross the barriers imposed by the music industry to, once again, point the public's attention to what is the channelling of creativity in its broadest forms of expression.
Through ATME, ATŌMI brings everything back to a human, direct, "artist-supporter" level, having the ability to decide the timing and modalities for each of the transdisciplinary releases; an act of care that takes place through curating the aesthetics of the publications down to the smallest details, as well as in the production and post-production process of music, images, and ecological and boutique physical formats.
The label thus becomes a channel of connection, a community, which has as its source the collaboration between ATŌMI and a wide variety of artists, a transdisciplinary and multimedia approach that has always characterized his work and enriched his forms and nuances, and as its mouth all the intricate social ramifications that flow into the ocean of a community.
ATME is the act of contaminating and being contaminated, cross-pollination, transdisciplinarity.
ATME Records is not just a record label, it is a process of parsimonious curation and research that aims to question the contemporary art industry, its environmental and social sustainability-impact, and the directions of its development.
The lichen label was born from the need of the Berlin-based Italian born music producer and sound artist Lorenzo Setti (ATŌMI) to cross the barriers imposed by the music industry to, once again, point the public's attention to what is the channelling of creativity in its broadest forms of expression.
Through ATME, ATŌMI brings everything back to a human, direct, "artist-supporter" level, having the ability to decide the timing and modalities for each of the transdisciplinary releases; an act of care that takes place through curating the aesthetics of the publications down to the smallest details, as well as in the production and post-production process of music, images, and ecological and boutique physical formats.
The label thus becomes a channel of connection, a community, which has as its source the collaboration between ATŌMI and a wide variety of artists, a transdisciplinary and multimedia approach that has always characterized his work and enriched his forms and nuances, and as its mouth all the intricate social ramifications that flow into the ocean of a community.
Label Catalog
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Artwork by [ATM001]
• Digital EP
• LTD Art Book (3 copies left)
• LTD Poster (20 LEFT)
The debut Ep "ARMØNIA", beautifully illustrated by Serjan Burlak ( Biogenic ), mixed and mastered by Davide Cristiani at Bombanella Soundscapes and re-published by ATME Records after the first release through the label Jikken Records, embodies the research, the unceasing curiosity and emotions of the musician and producer ATŌMI artist alias of Lorenzo Setti.
Well acclaimed by the critics that describe it as
“an Ep that goes beyond the boundaries of music” _Radioaktiv
"this electronic album is dark, ambient, and highly textured. Its abstractions form pictures in your mind." _The Prog Mind
“Five tracks for five different types of approach to electronic sound art. This expressive multiplicity clearly reveals the musician’s manyfold potentialities and his extreme compositional flexibility.” _Europa e Cultura Elettronica
The interest in science and ancient writings led the artist to encode a journey started from the planet’s orbit frequencies of the solar system, into music. A musical research that goes beyond the stringent scientific approach and connects to the spiritual and philosophical world through the use of symbols.
Through the combination and the symbolic representation of different cultures, traditions and philosophies, from the Chinese elements to alchemy, from astrology to I Ching through the Indian chakras, hermeticism and the Pythagorean Tetraktys, the five tracks: Unveil, Evolve, Purify, IAM and OM speak of an ascending path.
They go beyond the word and become symbolism, speaking simultaneously with both the conscious and the unconscious part of our being.
Purify, video directed by Alessandra Leone
• Digital EP
• LTD Art Book (3 copies left)
• LTD Poster (20 LEFT)
The debut Ep "ARMØNIA", beautifully illustrated by Serjan Burlak ( Biogenic ), mixed and mastered by Davide Cristiani at Bombanella Soundscapes and re-published by ATME Records after the first release through the label Jikken Records, embodies the research, the unceasing curiosity and emotions of the musician and producer ATŌMI artist alias of Lorenzo Setti.
Well acclaimed by the critics that describe it as
“an Ep that goes beyond the boundaries of music” _Radioaktiv
"this electronic album is dark, ambient, and highly textured. Its abstractions form pictures in your mind." _The Prog Mind
“Five tracks for five different types of approach to electronic sound art. This expressive multiplicity clearly reveals the musician’s manyfold potentialities and his extreme compositional flexibility.” _Europa e Cultura Elettronica
The interest in science and ancient writings led the artist to encode a journey started from the planet’s orbit frequencies of the solar system, into music. A musical research that goes beyond the stringent scientific approach and connects to the spiritual and philosophical world through the use of symbols.
Through the combination and the symbolic representation of different cultures, traditions and philosophies, from the Chinese elements to alchemy, from astrology to I Ching through the Indian chakras, hermeticism and the Pythagorean Tetraktys, the five tracks: Unveil, Evolve, Purify, IAM and OM speak of an ascending path.
They go beyond the word and become symbolism, speaking simultaneously with both the conscious and the unconscious part of our being.
Purify, video directed by Alessandra Leone
LTD ART-BOOK
In 2021, ATŌMI collaborates with the visual artists Chiara De Maria to design a 40 pages limited edition art book to embody his artistic research regarding philosophies and symbolism.
A 25 ltd copies print A5 format with handmade acetate inserts, A3 format artistic poster and QR codes to the videos and free digital download with the aim to find also new paths meaningful to express music without the need of the traditional music supports.
You can find all the details in the Merch section of Bandcamp.
VIDEOS
ATŌMI debut EP acquires new horizons and nuances, thanks to the collaboration with five visual artists: Alessandra Leone, Carlo Fanchini, Chiara De Maria, Matteo Gatti and Stefano Benatti.
The intent is to once again cross all the borders, through the re-elaboration of the symbology and concept that permeate the EP, combining five unique ways of conceiving video art.
The concept is simple but opens up to unexpected paths: five tracks, five visual artists and five videos, one per artist.
Although profoundly distant in the choice of subjects, in the aesthetics and shooting technique, the videos are strongly connected and linked to each other, as directed by a single conductor, who conveys emotions and perceptions, above the parts, towards new goals of human awareness.
Unveil (Carlo Fanchini - Okra Collective)
Evolve (Cugeeno Benatti)
Purify (Alessandra Leone)
IAM (Chiara De Maria)
OM (Digitclan)
In 2021, ATŌMI collaborates with the visual artists Chiara De Maria to design a 40 pages limited edition art book to embody his artistic research regarding philosophies and symbolism.
A 25 ltd copies print A5 format with handmade acetate inserts, A3 format artistic poster and QR codes to the videos and free digital download with the aim to find also new paths meaningful to express music without the need of the traditional music supports.
You can find all the details in the Merch section of Bandcamp.
VIDEOS
ATŌMI debut EP acquires new horizons and nuances, thanks to the collaboration with five visual artists: Alessandra Leone, Carlo Fanchini, Chiara De Maria, Matteo Gatti and Stefano Benatti.
The intent is to once again cross all the borders, through the re-elaboration of the symbology and concept that permeate the EP, combining five unique ways of conceiving video art.
The concept is simple but opens up to unexpected paths: five tracks, five visual artists and five videos, one per artist.
Although profoundly distant in the choice of subjects, in the aesthetics and shooting technique, the videos are strongly connected and linked to each other, as directed by a single conductor, who conveys emotions and perceptions, above the parts, towards new goals of human awareness.
Unveil (Carlo Fanchini - Okra Collective)
Evolve (Cugeeno Benatti)
Purify (Alessandra Leone)
IAM (Chiara De Maria)
OM (Digitclan)
LTD POSTER
An A3 size limited edition poster, printed on both sides and entirely designed by Chiara De Maria.
The poster embodies ATŌMI's artistic research on symbolism and archetypes, a bridge between humans' philosophies and cultures of the world through the ages.
The synergy of the creative work between ATŌMI and Chiara De Maria has led both artists to the design of a new series of symbols that merge and re-interpret the interconnections between I-Ching, astronomy and astrology as well as alchemic and Chinese elements and hexagrams and chakras.
An A3 size limited edition poster, printed on both sides and entirely designed by Chiara De Maria.
The poster embodies ATŌMI's artistic research on symbolism and archetypes, a bridge between humans' philosophies and cultures of the world through the ages.
The synergy of the creative work between ATŌMI and Chiara De Maria has led both artists to the design of a new series of symbols that merge and re-interpret the interconnections between I-Ching, astronomy and astrology as well as alchemic and Chinese elements and hexagrams and chakras.
Artwork by [ATM002]
• Digital EP
ATŌMI announced his first LP entitled “Little Floating Oracles”, released on October 7th 2022 on Lady Blunt Records and re-released by ATME in 2024.
The album, mixed by Lorenzo Setti and Davide Bombanella at The Groundfloor Studio (IT) and mastered by Lawrence English - defined as “one of the ambient’s modern music masters” by Fact Mag - at Negative Space Studio (AU), comes after his well-acclaimed debut EP “ARMØNIA” (2020, Jikken Records/2024, ATME Records).
The 7-tracks album by Berlin based producer and sound artist was inspired by the concept of fetus, perceived as a physical incarnation of the cosmic essence which embodies the endless knowledge of an Oracle.
ATŌMI translates into sound the beauty and power of this assumption, recreating the atmospheres and going deeper into the various ancestral states of a new life in formation.
With “Little Floating Oracles” we embark on a dense journey through the prenatal existence, starting from high and immaterial planes down to the material and sensorial reality, exploring the borders of dark ambient, contemporary electronic and experimental classical music.
The artwork has been designed by Akasha (Riccardo Franco-Loiri), a Turin based visual artist who combined studies on embryology and scientific aspects with atavistic knowledge regarding the otherworldly soul, taking inspiration from the Upanishads, to literally give life to a piece of art that deepen its roots into a surreal environment in which symbolic forms and dynamism coexist.
He modeled all the main elements of the artwork in Virtual Reality, valuing gesture, fluidity, speed of execution and the infinite possibilities of punctual intervention.
Furthermore, Akasha has been invited by OpenAI to participate in the Artist Program of the newly formed DALL-E 2, a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a given image or textual prompt, taking the dialogue with technology to a further level. Thanks to this new tool, the AI then created a number of variations of the artwork used for the three singles Oracles, Oneiros and Adela.
“Some of the best track ever produced in the field of ambient techno.” _Threshold Magazine
“ATŌMI’s music feels enormous and all-encompassing. Spellbinding.” _Foxy Digitalis
“One of the best albums of the year.” _RockIt
“One of the most interesting producers of his generation.” _Nicchia Elettronica
“A complex work, practically perfect.” _Radioaktiv
Anemos, video directed by Chiara De Maria
• Digital EP
ATŌMI announced his first LP entitled “Little Floating Oracles”, released on October 7th 2022 on Lady Blunt Records and re-released by ATME in 2024.
The album, mixed by Lorenzo Setti and Davide Bombanella at The Groundfloor Studio (IT) and mastered by Lawrence English - defined as “one of the ambient’s modern music masters” by Fact Mag - at Negative Space Studio (AU), comes after his well-acclaimed debut EP “ARMØNIA” (2020, Jikken Records/2024, ATME Records).
The 7-tracks album by Berlin based producer and sound artist was inspired by the concept of fetus, perceived as a physical incarnation of the cosmic essence which embodies the endless knowledge of an Oracle.
ATŌMI translates into sound the beauty and power of this assumption, recreating the atmospheres and going deeper into the various ancestral states of a new life in formation.
With “Little Floating Oracles” we embark on a dense journey through the prenatal existence, starting from high and immaterial planes down to the material and sensorial reality, exploring the borders of dark ambient, contemporary electronic and experimental classical music.
The artwork has been designed by Akasha (Riccardo Franco-Loiri), a Turin based visual artist who combined studies on embryology and scientific aspects with atavistic knowledge regarding the otherworldly soul, taking inspiration from the Upanishads, to literally give life to a piece of art that deepen its roots into a surreal environment in which symbolic forms and dynamism coexist.
He modeled all the main elements of the artwork in Virtual Reality, valuing gesture, fluidity, speed of execution and the infinite possibilities of punctual intervention.
Furthermore, Akasha has been invited by OpenAI to participate in the Artist Program of the newly formed DALL-E 2, a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a given image or textual prompt, taking the dialogue with technology to a further level. Thanks to this new tool, the AI then created a number of variations of the artwork used for the three singles Oracles, Oneiros and Adela.
“Some of the best track ever produced in the field of ambient techno.” _Threshold Magazine
“ATŌMI’s music feels enormous and all-encompassing. Spellbinding.” _Foxy Digitalis
“One of the best albums of the year.” _RockIt
“One of the most interesting producers of his generation.” _Nicchia Elettronica
“A complex work, practically perfect.” _Radioaktiv
Anemos, video directed by Chiara De Maria
[ATM003]
• Digital EP
ATØMIA is the second installment of EPs in a trilogy composed by musician and producer ATŌMI, alias Lorenzo Setti.
He debuted in 2020 with his first concept EP, ARMØNIA, published by the Tokyo-based label, Jikken Records and republished by ATME Records in 2024. Through the first work, he defines the objective of the trilogy as a journey through resonant frequencies, symbolism of different cultures, philosophies and ancient scripts.
The second step of this series will be published by Berlin-based new born lichen label ATME Records and it’s based on the following concept:
What fascinates ATŌMI the most is the barely perceptible thread that connects the upheavals within the Sun caused by the nuclear reactions with the human act of cyclically destroying its knowledge acquired over the centuries. The act of burning scripts compared to flares and sunspots finds peculiar common points in catharsis, violence and renewal.
The question that arises is: how much these acts are just “human errors” that keep repeating and how much instead they reflect the alchemical act of purification, which lays the foundations for a new path to follow for all humanity?
An artistic research focused on the connections between the macrosystems of the Universe and the microsystems of human society.
ATŌMI’s starting point for this project began with an examination of all the historical transcriptions of events related to libraries, manuscripts or cultural centers burned and proceeded with the research on publication such as: “Shifting Pattern of Extraordinary Economic and Social Events in Relation to the Solar Cycle” by Gorbanev Mikhail.
Given that human history is written by who actually won and most of the time overpower someone else, and given that the first transcribed arson dates back more than 2000 years b.c. surely have made the finding of faithful sources that could support the research even harder, veering the project toward a metaphorical representation of the vast significance of this research and profoundly influenced the sounds chosen to compose the five tracks.
These events have been subsequently translated, through the artist's sensitivity, into five tracks, which take their names from five symbolic arson events: Thebes 1358 b.c., Alexandria 642 b.c., Baghdad 1258 a.d., Yucatan 1562 a.d. and Berlin 1933 a.d.
• Digital EP
ATØMIA is the second installment of EPs in a trilogy composed by musician and producer ATŌMI, alias Lorenzo Setti.
He debuted in 2020 with his first concept EP, ARMØNIA, published by the Tokyo-based label, Jikken Records and republished by ATME Records in 2024. Through the first work, he defines the objective of the trilogy as a journey through resonant frequencies, symbolism of different cultures, philosophies and ancient scripts.
The second step of this series will be published by Berlin-based new born lichen label ATME Records and it’s based on the following concept:
What fascinates ATŌMI the most is the barely perceptible thread that connects the upheavals within the Sun caused by the nuclear reactions with the human act of cyclically destroying its knowledge acquired over the centuries. The act of burning scripts compared to flares and sunspots finds peculiar common points in catharsis, violence and renewal.
The question that arises is: how much these acts are just “human errors” that keep repeating and how much instead they reflect the alchemical act of purification, which lays the foundations for a new path to follow for all humanity?
An artistic research focused on the connections between the macrosystems of the Universe and the microsystems of human society.
ATŌMI’s starting point for this project began with an examination of all the historical transcriptions of events related to libraries, manuscripts or cultural centers burned and proceeded with the research on publication such as: “Shifting Pattern of Extraordinary Economic and Social Events in Relation to the Solar Cycle” by Gorbanev Mikhail.
Given that human history is written by who actually won and most of the time overpower someone else, and given that the first transcribed arson dates back more than 2000 years b.c. surely have made the finding of faithful sources that could support the research even harder, veering the project toward a metaphorical representation of the vast significance of this research and profoundly influenced the sounds chosen to compose the five tracks.
These events have been subsequently translated, through the artist's sensitivity, into five tracks, which take their names from five symbolic arson events: Thebes 1358 b.c., Alexandria 642 b.c., Baghdad 1258 a.d., Yucatan 1562 a.d. and Berlin 1933 a.d.
MUSIC
ATØMIA was composed in 2018 right after ATŌMI's debut Ep.
It embodies the research on transient saturation and the all-analog approach that characterized ATŌMI's early productions at that time.
The Ep was composed primarily using Dave Smith Inst. Tetra, Nord Drum 2 with an analog efx chain in a live jam approach. By sequencing the instruments in real time and converging and then summing each signal in a single mixer, ATŌMI achieved the desired saturated, rounded, visceral sound.
But the really interesting part came when he decided to add a "no input mixing" approach that ran in parallel and added even more warmth and intensity to the transients by going to ad hoc distortions that made percussive parts melodic parts and vice versa.
A characteristic sound that can be heard clearly in tracks such as: Baghdad1258 and Berlin1933.
Although in sound this EP may diverge from the last released album "Little Floating Oracles," it should be regarded as a key step in the EP trilogy, bringing a more saturated, analog and beat-oriented flavor to ATŌMI's musical aesthetic, to warm up the listener in anticipation of the third and final EP.
ATØMIA was composed in 2018 right after ATŌMI's debut Ep.
It embodies the research on transient saturation and the all-analog approach that characterized ATŌMI's early productions at that time.
The Ep was composed primarily using Dave Smith Inst. Tetra, Nord Drum 2 with an analog efx chain in a live jam approach. By sequencing the instruments in real time and converging and then summing each signal in a single mixer, ATŌMI achieved the desired saturated, rounded, visceral sound.
But the really interesting part came when he decided to add a "no input mixing" approach that ran in parallel and added even more warmth and intensity to the transients by going to ad hoc distortions that made percussive parts melodic parts and vice versa.
A characteristic sound that can be heard clearly in tracks such as: Baghdad1258 and Berlin1933.
Although in sound this EP may diverge from the last released album "Little Floating Oracles," it should be regarded as a key step in the EP trilogy, bringing a more saturated, analog and beat-oriented flavor to ATŌMI's musical aesthetic, to warm up the listener in anticipation of the third and final EP.
VIDEO by GESO
VIDEO
For this release ATŌMI teamed up with the Berlin based-Madrid born 3D and visual artist GESO.
The already well defined concept behind ATØMIA brought GESO to investigate the timeless meaning of art, bringing to life something that can be perceived as contemporary and at the same time linked to the past, history and cultures already present within the project’s concept.
The combination of audio and digital/physical representation will be performed through the medium of an installation, and not as a live show.
A new output format after the well acclaimed AV show of the latest two releases and nomination as one of the best AV performances of 2021 by ADAF Greece for ARMØNIA Live show.
Also known as Pablo IA, GESO output focuses on digital art, visual music, site specific installations and art direction. His approach on art revolves on the perception of light and its physicality, the paradoxes defining our knowledge of reality, freedom and self-being and the perfection hidden within errors and glitches.
GESO continues saying: “As a visual artist I experimented with all kinds of techniques, from analog to digital. In the last few years I focused on 3D tools such as: Cinema 4D, Octane Render.
In my CGI artworks convey all the knowledge based on design, photography, light design and animation, I developed during my career. The act of creation is a slow mental and intuitive process of singling out the details that define the artwork before it’s even created.”
“The Eighth Climate” series
What is that intermediate universe?
It is the one being called the “eighth climate.”
The term is sufficiently eloquent by itself, since it signifies a climate outside of climates, a place outside of place, outside of where (Nā-kojā-Ābād).
This concept, coined by Henry Corbin, a colleague of C. G. Jung, captures the fundamental key to working with symbols and the creative imagination, allowing the psyche to move beyond the limiting constraints and one-sided attitude of the ego. Jung believed that the psyche contained all that is required for wholeness, but the ego is trapped in a rational reductive perspective which cuts us off from the healing power of the imagination. Imagination connects us to our desires, brings together the past, present and future and provides us with the means to build a cohesive story of our lives, to discern the meaning of our lives. Imagination is therefore the agency that enables us to create our world and to keep creating new and endless possibilities. Imagination connects us with movement and change, compels us towards the new.
About the series
The Eighth Climate series stems from the need to have experiences with territories that in a direct, transversal or tangent way belong to the artists involved, as well as to rediscover places where artists normally live, frequent or have knowledge or curiosity about, collecting segments of them in a variety of forms and creative ways.
The act of specific open-field research carried out in two rounds in territories, often based on juxtaposition (natural, urban - with spontaneous vegetation, man-made) is time-limited and is supported by reworking of the creative harvest, carried out collaboratively, both in the field and, at a later stage in an autonomous mode, to be later processed by both artists and finalized at a distance.
The project follows the human need for an experiential approach that takes into account the body's slow assimilation timelines, through a somatic approach, supported by simultaneous personal processing in a protected and gathering environment.
The research explores the significance of an approach that arises from and builds on a collaborative and synergistic reality outside the aseptic environment of the recording or music production studio or any other media involved.
It is the one being called the “eighth climate.”
The term is sufficiently eloquent by itself, since it signifies a climate outside of climates, a place outside of place, outside of where (Nā-kojā-Ābād).
This concept, coined by Henry Corbin, a colleague of C. G. Jung, captures the fundamental key to working with symbols and the creative imagination, allowing the psyche to move beyond the limiting constraints and one-sided attitude of the ego. Jung believed that the psyche contained all that is required for wholeness, but the ego is trapped in a rational reductive perspective which cuts us off from the healing power of the imagination. Imagination connects us to our desires, brings together the past, present and future and provides us with the means to build a cohesive story of our lives, to discern the meaning of our lives. Imagination is therefore the agency that enables us to create our world and to keep creating new and endless possibilities. Imagination connects us with movement and change, compels us towards the new.
About the series
The Eighth Climate series stems from the need to have experiences with territories that in a direct, transversal or tangent way belong to the artists involved, as well as to rediscover places where artists normally live, frequent or have knowledge or curiosity about, collecting segments of them in a variety of forms and creative ways.
The act of specific open-field research carried out in two rounds in territories, often based on juxtaposition (natural, urban - with spontaneous vegetation, man-made) is time-limited and is supported by reworking of the creative harvest, carried out collaboratively, both in the field and, at a later stage in an autonomous mode, to be later processed by both artists and finalized at a distance.
The project follows the human need for an experiential approach that takes into account the body's slow assimilation timelines, through a somatic approach, supported by simultaneous personal processing in a protected and gathering environment.
The research explores the significance of an approach that arises from and builds on a collaborative and synergistic reality outside the aseptic environment of the recording or music production studio or any other media involved.
UPCOMING RELEASE
[ATM004] - 07.02.25
