Tamara Montenegro is a Nicaraguan sound artist, researcher, and writer whose work bridges the poetic and the scientific. Under the name NAOBA, she creates immersive sonic experiences that explore the deep relationship between sound, the nervous system, and consciousness. With a background in Biology and a Master’s in Sound Art, her artistic practice spans ecoacoustic installations, performances, spatial sound compositions, and experimental workshops that integrate conscious feelings work, somatics, and environmental attunement.

Her creations emerge from lived research—an ongoing process of transformation through personal healing, political awareness, and spiritual inquiry. Tamara sees art as a non-linear technology for change, a way to restore agency by widening perception and creating spaces of collective reclamation. She weaves together ancestral knowledge, psychoacoustics, symbolic thinking, and shamanic psychoanthropology to deepen the human experience and bring people home to their inner truth. Her work is both deeply embodied and visionary, grounded in the understanding that presence and emotion are sacred technologies.

Currently, she is developing immersive sound environments and frequency-based compositions that support circadian and emotional regulation, drawing from the Earth’s own rhythms. Whether composing meditative albums as NAOBA, offering workshops for children on emotional literacy, or building 3D soundscapes, sound walks, and ritual work for communities, her mission remains the same: to restore intimacy between humans and life through listening, feeling, and co-creation.

One of Tamara's speciality is immersive audio. With a Master's in Sound Art from Universitat de Barcelona and specialization in psychoacoustic research and 3D sound perception, Tamara creates at the intersection of science, art, and technology. Her work spans spatial audio compositions, field recordings of endangered ecosystems through her Heart in Nature project, and immersive sound installations exhibited internationally including Sound Art Festival Mexico City, Loop Festival Berlin, and ISEA Dubai.

As NAOBA, she produces music that bridges ancient wisdom and futuristic sound codes, releasing on on various prestigious and niche labels including Buddha Bar, Shika Shika, Resueño, Quinto Fuego, Gravitas, High Vibe and many others. Tamara has extensive experience in film sound design and composition for documentaries, animations, and features. She is also dedicated to education, mentoring emerging artists through programs like Momentom Collective Music Residencies and founding UUCHUL Music Studios. Her current research explores how immersive soundscapes can enhance neuroplasticity, emotional resilience, and deeper states of perception.