Ari Liloia is a musician and technologist whose work explores the growth and movement of dense colonies exhibiting irregular repetition - “think barnacles, coral, knitted fabrics, puzzles, etc,” he tells us. Liloia's musical practice congealed slowly like fungus on the surface of his long-standing field recording hobby. “Some of the spores released landed on fallen trees and bloomed into solo material,” like his debut album 'ghost town' from 2021. Others were breathed in, puppeting him “ophiocordyceps-style,” he claims, into collaborations with kindred spirits galen tipton, Dustin Wong, and Thotcrime, and Orange Milk Records.