PSY PRIESTESS
I am Camille Balingit, performing as Psy Priestess, a Chicago-born, Netherlands-based artist working at the crossroads of electronic music, ritual, memory and the more-than-human world.Drawing on my Filipino and Czech heritage, I explore sound as a vessel for memory, connection and belonging.
My musical work moves between ethereal melody and ritualistic rhythm, combining electronic production with acoustic instrumentation and exploring how sound can carry the physical and spiritual energy of people, places and generations.
music · performance · sound · visual art · printmaking · photography · tattoo · installation · research · collaboration
Alongside music and performance, I work across different visual artforms, experimenting with different mediums including printmaking, photography, and tattoo-based work. My screenprints explore symbolism, ritual and the visual language of memory, while my tattoo practice translated these ideas onto the body through personal and symbolic imagery. Across these mediums, I am interested in how images can carry meaning, memory and identity, and how symbols can move between the personal, the cultural and the spiritual.My Story
My relationship with music developed through a somewhat winding path. I initially studied Arts & Culture at Erasmus University Rotterdam, an education that continues to influence the way I think about culture, ritual, identity and artistic practice. I eventually left the programme and found my way into Rotterdam's electronic music scene as a DJ. Through DJing, I began producing my own music, which eventually led me back to formal education, where I earned an Associate’s Degree in Electronic Music at the Amsterdam Electronic Music Academy (AEMA) at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
Alongside music, I have developed an ongoing interest in the theological and cultural roots of sound, indigenous ritual music and the ways ancient practices continue to resonate in contemporary life. My connection to mushrooms is also rooted in my own family history: my Czech grandmother was an avid mushroom forager, and memories of searching for mushrooms in the forests have become part of my understanding of nature, ancestry and the knowledge carried through generations. I am interested in what happens when these histories meet electronic music, and in how migration and movement can transform our relationship to place, ancestry and identity.
My debut EP, DMTrees, grew from this exploration. At the time, I was living between Bali and Rotterdam, and the music became a way of tracing the invisible thread between these two places, turning movement, memory and belonging into sound.
I am now developing Diwa Spora, my debut album and an expanding interdisciplinary body of work centred around mycelium and ancestral memory. The project draws from the mycelial network as both a living organism and a framework for thinking about connection: an invisible field weaving together people, places, generations and memory.
Rooted partly in my own Czech and Filipino ancestry, Diwa Spora brings together music, live performance, visual art, installation, research, and living materials. It grows through collaboration with artists whose practices engage with memory, ecology, ancestry, and nature—while exploring mycelium not simply as a subject, but as a collaborator and a living presence within the work.
Through Psy Priestess, I am interested in creating spaces where music becomes more than something to listen to: a place to remember, to connect, and to encounter the unseen systems that bind us to one another and to the world around us.
Past Visual Works
My screenprints explore symbolism through a combination of found imagery and drawings of my own, inspired by the places I inhabit and travel through. I am drawn to print as a medium because of its connection to tattooing: both transform symbolic imagery into lasting marks, a relationship that also resonates with the long history of tattooing within Indigenous Filipino cultures. These works are fragments of particular places and periods, carrying the symbols, memories, and visual languages I encountered along the way.
