For NØVA the studio is not a place where music is stored until it is ready. It is an instrument with its own decay, its own noise floor, its own weather.
Tools are treated as architecture. A compressor becomes a wall. A delay becomes a corridor. Silence is not a gap in the arrangement. It is a surface the other sounds have to live against.
This conversation stays with atmosphere as a produced thing: not a mood applied afterwards, but a condition built in the room, take after take, until the air has a shape.